Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Netherlands Navy — Submarine

HNLMS O 14

O 12-class submarine

HNLMS O 14
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Service

  1. Royal Netherlands Navy as O 144 March 1932 — 26 June 19431,394 days of the war
O 12-class submarine Particulars
Name
HNLMS O 14
Builder
Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Vlissingen
Laid down
29 December 1928
Launched
3 October 1931
Commissioned
4 March 1932
Decommissioned
26 June 1943
Status
Unknown

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
610 long tons (620 t)
Displacement, submerged
754 long tons (766 t)
Length
60.4 m (198.2 ft)
Beam
6.8 m (22.3 ft)
Draught
3.6 m (11.8 ft)
Speed
16 knots (29.6 km/h, 18.4 mph)
Range
10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
Complement
29
Main gun
44 mm (1.7 in)

HNLMS O 14 was a O 12-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Vlissingen laid her keel on 29 December 1928. She entered service on 4 March 1932, having been launched on 3 October 1931.

Her class ran to four ships. The class followed the O 9 class and was succeeded by the HNLMS O 16.

The boat displaced 610 long tons surfaced and 754 long tons submerged. She measured 60.4 m (198 ft) long with a beam of 6.8 m (22 ft). Her designed speed was 16 knots, and she carried a complement of 29.

Her main battery was two 44 mm (1.7 in) guns.

She was in commission for 1,394 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 26 June 1943.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 2 × 900 bhp diesel engines
  • 2 × 310 bhp electric motors
Armament
  • 4 × 21 inch bow torpedo tubes
  • 1 × 21 inch stern torpedo tube
  • 2 × 44 mm guns
  • 1 × 12.7 mm machine gun

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HNLMS O 14 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons