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K 14

Built By: Fairfield (Clyde)
Build Group: K1
Fate: Scrapped in December 1926.
K14 Crew
K14 Crew

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Commanders
1918: Commander   T C B Harbottle
1920: Commander   John Fenwick Hutchings DSO

13th Flotilla: Scapa Flow.
13th Flotilla: Rosyth.

Roll of Honour

3
Wistanly, Alfred James George
Born: 10th Apr, 1922.
Aged: 25
Electrical Artificer 3rd Class
Bowell, W J
Born: 13th Aug, 1895.
Died: 31st Jan, 1918.
Aged: 22
From: Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire
Able Seaman
During Operation E.C.1, which took place overnight in the Firth of Forth. K22 collided with K14 . The bow of K22 cut into the port side of the crew space of K14 flooding the compartment and drowning two members of the crew.

He was one of the four children of George Bowell and his wife Amy Louisa (née Charter) of Long Compton, Warwickshire.
Scott, Alexander
Born: 2nd Dec, 1888.
Died: 31st Jan, 1918.
Aged: 29
From: Aberdeen
Leading Seaman
During Operation E.C.1, which took place overnight in the Firth of Forth. K22 collided with K14. The bow of K22 cut into the port side of the crew space of K14, flooding the compartment and drowning two members of the crew.

He was married to Elizabeth (nee Donnelly) and was a native of Dundee.

Events

 01-11-1915   Laid Down
 08-02-1917   Launched
 22-05-1917   Completed
 31-01-1918   During Operation E.C.1, which took place overnight in the Firth of Forth. K22 collided with K14 . The bow of K22 cut into the port side of the crew space of K14 flooding the compartment and drowning two members of the crew.

They were L/Sea Alexander Scott and AB W J Bowell
K1 Specification
Length overall  339 ft
Beam  26 ft 6 inch
Draught  20 ft 11 inch
Displacement   1980 tons (surface)
  2566 tons (submerged)
Diving Depth  200 ft
Speed  Surface 24 knots (design)
  Surface 24 knots (service)
  Submerged 10 to 10.5 knots (design)
  Submerged 9 knots (service)
No. of shafts  2
Propeller  3 blades, 7 ft 8 inch diameter
Armament  4 x 18 inch bow tubes
  4 x 18 inch beam tubes
  (16 torpedoes carried)
  2 x 4 inch guns
  1 x 3 inch gun
Endurance  Surface: 960 miles at full power (design)
  Surface: 800 miles at full power or 12500 miles at 10 knots (service)
  Submerged: 13.5 miles at 9 knots (design)
  Submerged: 8 miles at 8 knots or 30 miles at 4 knots (service)
Complement  5 Officers and 53 Ratings
Further Reading
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K Boat Catastrophe
K Boat Catastrophe

N S Nash

The Full Story of the 'Battle' of the Isle of May Island. As they approached navigational confusion broke out, caused by the misinterpretation of ship's steaming lights and mayhem followed.

During the next couple of hours five collisions occurred involving eight ships and resulting in the death of 105 officers and ratings. This fiasco and the resulting naval investigation and court marshal were shielded from the general public and kept in secret files until the full details were released in 1994.

From this official report, the author now tells the full story of that dreadful night and the proceedings that followed. Background information on the evolution of the ill-fated and much hated K Class submarines is also included together with the investigation and court marshal proceedings of the events surrounding that tragic night.

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