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S14 torpedo boats (1936 - 1938)


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S14  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
S14, 1941- V5509   12505 Lürssen, Vegesack   23.1.1936 6.1936 sunk 1944
S15, 1941- V5511, 1944- S15   12510 Lürssen, Vegesack   15.2.1936 2.1937 surrendered 5.1945, to USA 1945, to Denmark 7.1947 (T46)
S16, 1941- V5512, 1944- S16   12630 Lürssen, Vegesack   7.4.1937 12.1937 surrendered 5.1945, to USSR 2.1946 (ТК-1003 [TK-1003])
S17   12635 Lürssen, Vegesack   29.7.1937 3.1938 damaged 4.9.1939, stricken


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

92.5

Displacement full, t105
Length, m

34.6

Breadth, m

5.26

Draught, m

1.67

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 MAN L11 Zu diesels

Power, h. p.

6150

Max speed, kts

37.7

Fuel, tdiesel oil 13.3
Endurance, nm(kts)500(32)
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 2 - 533 TT (4)

Complement18 - 23


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<i> S14</i>  
S14  


Project history

Torpedo motorboats (Schnellboote) were the development of successful prototype created by F. Lürssen in 1929. General characteristic lines for all series were round-bilge hull with small deadrise, triple-shaft diesel machinery, presence of two auxiliary rudders for creation of "Lürssen effect" (fitting of rudders under an angle to centreline for speed increase) and a bow arrangement of two TTs. Composite hull included light alloy framing, wooden planking and steel engine seating. Boats of early series to beginning of war were considered become outdated and were used for training.

Modernizations

1941, most survived: - 1 x 1 - 20/65; + 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

1942 - 1943, all survived: + 6 DCs or mines

late 1942, some: - 1 x 1 - 20/65; + 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30 or 1 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28

1943, some: - 1 x 1 - 20/65; + 1 x 2 - 20/65 C/38 or 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38 or 1 x 2 - 15/84

Naval service

S14 was lost in 1944 in La Manche.