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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, t	105
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, t	diesel oil 13.3
Endurance, nm(kts)	500(32)
Armament	1 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 2 - 533 TT (4)
Complement	18 - 23

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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 Boats of early series to beginning of war were considered become outdated and were used for training.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.