O19 1939
O19 1939
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| O19 (ex-K XIX) | Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam | 6/1936 | 22/9/1938 | 7/1939 | wrecked 8/7/1945 | |
| O20 (ex-K XX) | Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam | 6/1936 | 31/1/1939 | 8/1939 | sunk 19/12/1941 |
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Displacement standard, t |
999 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1116 / 1561 |
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Length, m |
80.9 |
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Breadth, m |
7.41 |
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Draught, m |
3.87 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Sulzer 7-cyl diesels / electric motors |
|
Power, h. p. |
5300 / 1000 |
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Max speed, kts |
19.5 / 9 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
10000(12) / 27(8.5) |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 88/45 Bofors No.2, 2 x 1 - 40/40 Bofors, 1 x 1 - 12.7/90, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 14), 40 mines |
|
Complement |
40 |
| Diving depth operational, m | 100 |
Ship project history: Ordered as KXIX and X, but then letters in their names replaced in connection with the decision on liquidation of differences between submarines of domestic and colonial basing. Project was developed on the basis of Polish Orzel class submarines, built in the Netherlands, thus O19 and O20 became the first minelaying submarines of Dutch Navy.
Minelaying equipment of French Normand-Fenaux system consisted of 10 vertical tubes on 2 mines each from each side. 2 single 40mm Bofors MGs were placed in disappearing installations. Double-hulled, diesels were equipped by snorkels. there were Atlas Werke-produced sonar.
Modernizations: 1944, O19: - 1 x 1 - 40/40; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, type 291 radar.
Naval service: O20 was sunk 19/12/1941 by Japanese destroyer Uranami at Kota-Bharu (Malaya). O19 8/7/1945 ran areef in South China sea and 10/7/1945 sunk by torpedoes from American submarine Cod.
O19
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