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K VII Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
K V			Fijenoord, Schiedam	4.1916	20.11.1919	9.1920	stricken 8.1937
K VI			Fijenoord, Schiedam	4.1916	23.12.1920	10.1921	stricken 8.1937
K VII		281	Fijenoord, Schiedam	7.1916	8.3.1921	9.1922	sunk 18.2.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	507
Displacement normal, t	569 / 649
Length, m	57.3
Breadth, m	5.60
Draught, m	3.82
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer 6-cyl diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1200 / 400
Max speed, kts	13.5 / 8
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(11) / 25(8)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/52 SA No.2, 6 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 1 x 2, 12)
Complement	31
Diving depth operational, m	40

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Project history

Hay-Denny design, drawings were received from Wm Denny and Bros in 1914. In connection with the First World War beginning, MAN refused to deliver 900hp diesels which should be changed with less powerful Sulzers. Saddle-tank hull.

Modernizations

late 1920s, all: + 1 x 1 - 12.7/90

Naval service

K VII 18.2.1942 was sunk by Japanese aircraft in harbour of Surabaya.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.