SM U-14 (Germany)

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|Ship image=Submarine U-14 (LOC) (6358166395).jpg

|Ship caption=U-14

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|Ship country=Germany

|Ship flag={{Shipboxflag|German Empire|naval}}

|Ship name=U-14

|Ship ordered=23 February 1909

|Ship awarded=|Ship builder=Kaiserliche Werft Danzig

|Ship original cost=2,101,000 Goldmark

|Ship yard number=9

|Ship laid down=

|Ship launched=11 July 1911

|Ship commissioned=24 April 1912

|Ship fate=Disabled by gunfire from armed trawler Oceanic II and sunk off Peterhead at position {{coord|57|16|N|1|16|E|display=title, inline}} on 5 June 1915

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{{Infobox ship characteristics

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|Ship class = German Type U 13 submarine

|Ship displacement=

• {{convert|516|t|LT|abbr=on|lk=on}} surfaced
• {{convert|644|t|LT|abbr=on}} submerged

|Ship length={{convert|57.88|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|6|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught={{convert|3.44|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship propulsion=

• 2 shafts
• 2 × Körting 6-cylinder and 2 × Körting 8-cylinder two stroke paraffin motors with {{convert|900|PS|kW shp

|Ship speed=

• {{convert|14.8|kn}} surfaced
• {{convert|10.7|kn}} submerged

|Ship range surface={{convert|2000|nmi}} at 14 kn

|Ship test depth={{convert|50|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship boats=1 dinghy

|Ship complement=4 officers, 25 men

|Ship sensors=

|Ship EW=

|Ship armament=

• 4 × {{convert|45|cm|in|1|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes (2 each bow and stern)
• 6 torpedoes
• 1 × 5 cm SK L/40 gun

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{{Infobox service record

|is_ship=yes

|is_multi=yes

|partof=

• I Flotilla
• 1 August 1914 – 5 June 1915

|commanders=

• Kptlt. Walther Schwieger{{cite Uboat.net

|id=322

|name=Walther Schwieger (Pour le Mérite)

|type=1comm

|accessdate=14 March 2015

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• 1 August – 15 December 1914
• Kptlt. Otto Dröscher{{cite Uboat.net

|id=57

|name=Otto Dröscher (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)

|type=1comm

|accessdate=14 March 2015

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• 17 December 1914 – 15 April 1915
• Oblt.z.S. Max Hammerle{{cite Uboat.net

|id=110

|name=Max Hammerle

|type=1comm

|accessdate=14 March 2015

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• 16 April – 5 June 1915

|operations=1 patrol

|victories=

• 2 merchant ships sunk
  ({{GRT|3,907}})

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