SM UB-14

For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-14.
SM UB-14
SM UB-14
History
German Empire
NameUB-14
Ordered15 October 1914[1]
BuilderAG Weser, Bremen[2]
Yard number223[1]
Laid down9 November 1914[1]
Launched23 March 1915[1]
Commissioned25 March 1915[1][3]
FateScuttled off Sevastopol in the Black Sea in 1919
General characteristics [4]
Class and typeType UB I submarine
Displacement
  • 127 t (125 long tons) surfaced
  • 141 t (139 long tons) submerged
Length27.88 m (91 ft 6 in) (o/a)
Beam3.15 m (10 ft 4 in)
Draft3.03 m (9 ft 11 in)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 7.45 knots (13.80 km/h; 8.57 mph) surfaced
  • 6.24 knots (11.56 km/h; 7.18 mph) submerged
Range
  • 1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph)
  • 45 nmi (83 km; 52 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph)
Test depth50 metres (160 ft)
Complement14
Armament
Notes33-second diving time
Service record
Part of:
Commanders:
  • Oblt. Heino von Heimburg[1]
  • 25 March – 4 December 1915
  • Oblt. Albrecht von Dewitz
  • 5 December 1915 – 27 January 1916
  • 30 January – 5 February 1916
  • Oblt. Heino von Heimburg
  • 6 February – 16 June 1916
  • Oblt. Kurt Schwarz
  • 17 June – 19 November 1916
  • Oblt. Ernst Ulrich
  • 28 May 1917 – 15 March 1918
  • Oblt. Bodo Elleke
  • 16 March – 26 November 1918
Operations: 22 patrols[1]
Victories:
  • 4 merchant ships sunk
    (13,610 GRT)[1]
  • 2 warships sunk
    (10,843 tons)
  • 1 merchant ship damaged
    (11,899 GRT)

SM UB-14 was a German Type UB I submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The submarine was also known by the Austro-Hungarian Navy designation of SM U-26.

UB-14 was ordered in October 1914 and was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen in November. UB-14 was a little under 28 metres (92 ft) in length and displaced between 127 and 141 tonnes (125 and 139 long tons), depending on whether surfaced or submerged. She carried two torpedoes for her two bow torpedo tubes and was also armed with a deck-mounted machine gun. UB-14 was broken into sections and shipped by rail to the Austrian port Pola for reassembly. She was launched and commissioned in March 1915 as SM UB-14 in the German Imperial Navy under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Heino von Heimburg.[Note 1]

Because Germany and Italy were not yet at war when UB-14 entered service, she was transferred in name only to the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The submarine retained her German captain and crew, and remained under German command as a part of the Kaiserliche Marine's Pola Flotilla. During her first patrol in the Adriatic, UB-14 torpedoed and sank the Amalfi. While traveling to Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) to join the Constantinople Flotilla, UB-14 attacked two British troopships, sinking Royal Edward with heavy loss of life, and seriously damaging Southland. All three of UB-14's first victims were among the largest ships attacked by U-boats during the war.

Although UB-14 sank the British submarine HMS E20 in the Sea of Marmara in November 1915, she spent most of the rest of her career patrolling in the Black Sea. The U-boat had only limited success there, sinking only three ships through the end of the war. After the war ended, the submarine was disarmed at Sevastopol and scuttled off that port in early 1919.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UB 14". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
  2. ^ Tarrant, p. 172.
  3. ^ "UB-14 (6104964)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
  4. ^ Gröner 1991, pp. 22–23.
  5. ^ Dodson, Aidan; Cant, Serena (2020). Spoils of War: the fate of enemy fleets after the two World Wars. Barnsley: Seaforth. pp. 17, 128. ISBN 978-1-5267-4198-1.


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