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25-548: E14 , E-14 , E.14 or E 14 may refer to: Military [ edit ] HMS  E14 , a British Royal Navy submarine which saw service during World War I Yokosuka E14Y , an Imperial Japanese Navy seaplane which saw service during World War II E 14 (Norway) , a section within the Norwegian Intelligence Service specializing on covert missions abroad Transportation [ edit ] European route E14 ,

50-459: A maximum surface speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) and a submerged speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). British E-class submarines had fuel capacities of 50 long tons (51 t) of diesel and ranges of 3,255 miles (5,238 km; 2,829 nmi) when travelling at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). E14 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph). As with most of

75-455: A midship torpedo tube. Their maximum design depth was 100 feet (30 m) although in service some reached depths of below 200 feet (61 m) (other sources say 160ft design depth, 350ft crush depth ). Some submarines contained Fessenden oscillator systems. She was manned by three officers and 28 men. E14 took part in an operation to penetrate the Sea of Marmara . She successfully dived beneath

100-539: A minimum of 12 shots per minute. This rate of fire became increasingly important with the development of the first practical torpedoes and torpedo boats , which posed an extreme threat to the Royal Navy's maritime predominance. The first quick-firing light gun was the 1-inch Nordenfelt gun , built in Britain from 1880. The gun was expressly designed to defend larger warships against the new small fast-moving torpedo boats in

125-464: A quick-firing artillery piece are: These innovations, taken together, meant that the quick-firer could fire aimed shells much more rapidly than an older weapon. For instance, an Elswick Ordnance Company 4.7-inch gun fired 10 rounds in 47.5 seconds in 1887, almost eight times faster than the equivalent 5-inch breech-loading gun. In 1881, the Royal Navy advertised for a quick-firing gun that could fire

150-741: A road which runs through Norway and Sweden E14, a postcode district in the E postcode area LSWR E14 class , a locomotive operated by the London and South Western Railway in the United Kingdom Keiyō Road , Tateyama Expressway and Futtsu-Tateyama Road , route E14 in Japan Johor Bahru Eastern Dispersal Link Expressway , road in Malaysia Other uses [ edit ] Queen's Indian Defence , Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code E14 screw ,

175-556: A strong point in front of the gun were necessary to control the recoil. They were manned by Royal Navy crews and required up to 32 oxen to move. The first war in which quick-firing artillery was widespread was the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The quick-firing howitzer offered the potential for practical indirect fire . Traditional howitzers had been employed to engage targets outside their line of fire, but were very slow to aim and reload. Quick-firing weapons were capable of

200-502: A three-year search, Turkish marine engineer Selçuk Kolay and filmmaker Savas Karakas discovered the wreck of E14 in 20 m of water about 250 m off Kum Kale. The boat is largely buried in sand, only 7 m of the coral-encrusted bow, with a shell hole, remaining visible. The British government is to ask the Turkish authorities to ensure the wreck is respected as a war grave. [1] Quick firing gun The characteristics of

225-565: A type of Edison screw fitting for light bulbs E-14 The New MIT Media Lab [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E14&oldid=1153628266 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

250-566: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages HMS E14 HMS E14 was a British E class submarine built by Vickers , Barrow-in-Furness . During the First World War , two of her captains were awarded the Victoria Cross , and many of her officers and men also decorated. HMS E14 was laid down on 14 December 1912 and was commissioned on 18 November 1914. Her hull cost £105,700. She

275-484: The Battle of Imbros , E14 was dispatched to finish off the Turkish battlecruiser when repeated air attacks failed to destroy her. She arrived at Nara Burnu at 07:00 on 28 January. Rising to periscope depth, the submarine was unable to find its main target as Goeben had sailed away two days earlier. Turning round, E14 fired two torpedoes at a merchant ship observed through its periscope at 08:45 hours: 11 seconds after

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300-713: The French Army , starting in 1897 with the Canon de 75 modèle 1897 , which proved to be extremely successful. Other nations were quick to copy the quick-firing technology. The QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV was initially manufactured for naval use and as coast artillery . British forces in the Second Boer War were initially outgunned by the long-range Boer artillery. Captain Percy Scott of HMS Terrible first improvised timber static siege mountings for two 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns from

325-656: The QF 3 pounder as a light 47 mm naval gun from 1886. The gun was ideal for defending against small fast vessels such as torpedo boats and was immediately adopted by the RN as the "Ordnance QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss". It was built under licence by Elswick Ordnance Company . The Royal Navy introduced the QF 4.7-inch in HMS ; Sharpshooter in 1889, and the QF 6-inch MK 1 in HMS Royal Sovereign , launched 1891. Other navies followed suit;

350-461: The minefields and broke into the Sea of Marmara on 27 April 1915. She quickly sank the Turkish gunboat Nurel Bahr , sinking 200 tons on 1 May. She then went on to damage the minelayer Peik I Shevket sinking 1014 tons in a torpedo attack. On 3 May she torpedoed transportship Gul Djemal with 4,000 soldiers on board. Upon her return, her captain, Lieutenant Commander Edward Courtney Boyle received

375-555: The Cape Town coastal defences, to counter the Boers' " Long Tom " gun during the Siege of Ladysmith in 1899–1900. Scott then improvised a travelling carriage for 4.7-inch guns removed from their usual static coastal or ship mountings to provide the army with a heavy field gun. These improvised carriages lacked recoil buffers and hence in action drag shoes and attachment of the carriage by cable to

400-516: The French navy installed quick-firing weapons on its ships completed in 1894–95. Quick-firing guns were a key characteristic of the pre-dreadnought battleship , the dominant design of the 1890s. The quick-firing guns, while unable to penetrate thick armour, were intended to destroy the superstructure of an opposing battleship, start fires, and kill or distract the enemy's gun crews. The development of heavy guns and their increasing rate of fire meant that

425-677: The Victoria Cross; Lieutenant Edward Geldard Stanley and Acting Lieutenant Reginald Wilfred Lawrence were both awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and all the ratings were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal . Later in her career, her new captain, Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Saxton White was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Dardanelles . With the ex- Goeben crippled after

450-470: The contemporary Gatling gun and the true machine guns that succeeded it, such as the Maxim gun , which fired at a steady continuous rate. It was superseded for anti-torpedo boat defence in the mid-1880s by the new generation of Hotchkiss and Nordenfelt " QF " guns of 47 mm and 57 mm calibre, firing exploding " common pointed " shells weighing 3–6 lb (1.4–2.7 kg). The French firm Hotchkiss produced

475-517: The early E class boats, E14 was not fitted with a deck gun during construction, but later had a single 6-pounder QF gun mounted forward of the conning tower at Malta dockyard. She had five 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes , two in the bow, one either side amidships, and one in the stern; a total of 10 torpedoes were carried. E-Class submarines had wireless systems with 1 kilowatt (1.3 hp) power ratings; in some submarines, these were later upgraded to 3 kilowatts (4.0 hp) systems by removing

500-438: The late 1870s to the early 1880s and was an enlarged version of the successful rifle-calibre Nordenfelt hand-cranked "machine gun" designed by Helge Palmcrantz . The gun fired a solid steel bullet with hardened tip and brass jacket. The gun was used in one-, two-, and four-barrel versions. The ammunition was fed by gravity from a hopper above the breech, subdivided into separate columns for each barrel. The gunner loaded and fired

525-511: The launch of the second torpedo, she was rocked by a premature explosion from that torpedo. The gunboat Durak Reis and minelayer Nusret were nearby. She attacked the Durak Reis , but the torpedo she fired hit a shipwreck and exploded. E14 was forced to surface due to the effect of the premature explosion and the fire of the Ottoman ships, was badly damaged and dived. The submarine, which hit

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550-409: The multiple barrels by moving a lever on the right side of the gun forward and backwards. Pulling the lever backwards extracted the fired cartridges, pushing it forward then loaded fresh cartridges into all the barrels, and the final part of the forward motion fired all the barrels, one at a time in quick succession. Hence the gun functioned as a type of volley gun , firing bullets in bursts, compared to

575-497: The quick-firer lost its status as the decisive weapon of naval combat in the early 1900s, though quick-firing guns were vital to defend battleships from attack by torpedo boats and destroyers , and formed the main armament of smaller vessels. An early quick-firing field gun was created by Vladimir Baranovsky in 1872–75. which was officially adopted by the Russian military in 1882. On land, quick-firing field guns were first adopted by

600-482: The seabed at a depth of 150 ft (46 m), tried to exit the Bosphorus underwater, barely controllable. Arriving off Kumkale at around noon, E14 was caught by shore battery fire in front of Kumkale while trying to exit the Bosphorus. Taking direct hits, the submarine eventually sank. White, three officers and 20 enlisted men were killed, while nine surviving crew members were taken prisoner. In June 2012, after

625-594: Was sunk by shellfire from coastal batteries in the Dardanelles on 28 January 1918. Like all post- E8 British E-class submarines , E14 had a displacement of 662 long tons (673 t) at the surface and 807 long tons (820 t) while submerged. She had a total length of 180 feet (55 m) and a beam width of 22 feet 8.5 inches (6.922 m). She was powered by two 800 horsepower (600 kW) Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two 420 horsepower (310 kW) electric motors. The submarine had

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