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S14 1912

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S13		864	Schichau, Elbing	1911	7.12.1911	7.1912	sunk 6.11.1914
S14		865	Schichau, Elbing	1911	2.3.1912	11.1912	sunk 19.2.1915
S15		866	Schichau, Elbing	1911	23.3.1912	11.1912	damaged 21.8.1917, never repaired
S16		867	Schichau, Elbing	1911	20.4.1912	10.1912	sunk 20.1.1918
S17		868	Schichau, Elbing	1911	22.6.1912	12.1912	sunk 16.5.1917
S18		869	Schichau, Elbing	1911	10.8.1912	1/1913	stricken 3.1931
S19		870	Schichau, Elbing	1911	17.10.1912	3/1913	stricken 3.1931
S20		871	Schichau, Elbing	1911	4.12.1912	11.1913	sunk 5.6.1917
S21		872	Schichau, Elbing	1911	11.1.1913	6.1913	collision 21.4.1915
S22		873	Schichau, Elbing	1911	15.2.1913	7.1913	sunk 26.3.1916
S23, 3.1932- T23		874	Schichau, Elbing	1911	29.3.1913	11/1913	controlling ship for wireless controlled target Hessen T123 Komet 4.1939
S24		875	Schichau, Elbing	1911	28.6.1913	8.1913	discarded 11.1919, to United Kingdom

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	568
Displacement full, t	695
Length, m	71.0 wl 71.5 oa
Breadth, m	7.43
Draught, m	2.77
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Schichau steam turbines, 4 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	15700
Max speed, kts	32.5
Fuel, t	coal 108 + oil 72
Endurance, nm(kts)	1050(17)
Armament	2 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/08, 4 x 1 - 500 TT (5), 18 mines
Complement	74

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Project history

All twelve boats of the 1912 fiscal year were ordered from Schichau, the boats being very similar to the 1911 design and having the same deficiencies.

Modernizations

1916, S15 - 20, 23, 24: - 2 x 1 - 88/27; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

1917, S15, 18, 23, 24; 1921, S23: - 2 x 1 - 88/42; + 2 x 1 - 105/43 TK L/45 C/16

1921 - 1923, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 500 TT; boilers were replaced by 3 new ones, fuel stowage was 146 t of coal and 71 t of oil. Displacement was 650 / 749 t, endurance 1700(17)nm.

Naval service

S14 was lost because of internal explosion on Jade 19.2.1915, late this year she was raised and broken up. S21 was lost 21.4.1915 after collision with cruiser Hamburg in North Sea. S13 6.11.1914 in the North Sea and V4 in the same place 1.6.1916 have been destroyed after explosions of own torpedoes. S15 21.8.1917 at coast of Flanders was badly damaged by a mine and stricken a month later, S16 was mined in the North Sea 20.1.1918, S17 was sunk by mine in the North Sea 16.6.1917, S22 was mined in the North Sea 26.3.1916. S20 was sunk 5.6.1917 by British ships at Flanders coast.

S23 was used as TS from 1932 and as target controlling ship from 1939. She survived a war and was transferred to Soviet Union in 1946 (with target ship Hessen as Цель [Tsel`]) as Комета [Kometa].