Unterseeboot 14 (1936)

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U-14
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Kriegsmarine
Type	IIB
Fieldpost number	M 28 451
Shipyard	Deutsche Werke, Kiel
Yard number	249
Ordered	February 2, 1935
Laid down	July 6, 1935
Launched	December 28, 1935
Commissioned	January 18, 1936
Career
Patrols	6
Flotillas	3. Unterseebootsflottille 22. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille
Commanders	Victor Oehrn Horst Wellner Herbert Wohlfarth Gerhard Bigalk Hans Heidtmann Jürgen Könenkamp Hubertus Purkhold Klaus Petersen Walter Köhntopp Karl-Hermann Bortfeldt Hans-Joachim Dierks
Successes
9 ships sunk for a total of 12.344 GRT
Fate
Scuttled May 2, 1945 at Wilhelmshaven.

Unterseeboot 14 or U-14 was a German Type IIB U-boat during World War II. It served with 3. Unterseebootflottille from January 18, 1936 to October 31, 1939. U-14 completed six wartime patrols and sunk nine ships totalling 12,344 Gross Registered Tonnage.

Early in the war, on 3 September 1939, U-14 attacked a Polish submarine and claimed to have sunk it. In reality the Polish submarine, ORP Sęp, was not damaged as the torpedo launched by U-14 exploded prematurely [1].

After serving six operational patrols, U-14 was used as a training boat, and transferred to U-boat training flotillas, serving with 23. Unterseebootflottille and 24. Unterseebootflottille until the end of the war. Despite the high causalities suffered by the Unterseebootwaffen (German Submarine arm), U-14 suffered no known causalities during the War. U-14 was scuttled on May 2, 1945 at Wilhelmshaven.

[edit] References

• Bishop, C. Kriegsmarine U-Boats, 1939-45. Amber Books, 2006.
• uboat.net webpage about U-14
• ubootwaffe.net webpage about U-14