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O19 submarines (1939)


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O19 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
O19 (ex-K XIX)   657 Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam 6.1936 22.9.1938 7.1939 wrecked 8.7.1945
O20 (ex-K XX)   658 Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam 6.1936 31.1.1939 8.1939 sunk 19.12.1941


Technical data


Displacement standard, t999
Displacement normal, t1116 / 1561
Length, m

80.9

Breadth, m

7.41

Draught, m

3.87

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer 7-cyl diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

5300 / 1000

Max speed, kts

19.5 / 9

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)10000(12) / 27(8.5)
Armament

1 x 1 - 88/42 Bofors No.2, 2 x 1 - 40/36 Bofors, 1 x 1 - 12.7/90, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 14), 40 mines

Electronic equipmentAtlas-built sonar
Complement

40

Diving depth operational, m100


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<i>O19</i> 1939
O19 1939
<i>O19</i> 1939
O19 1939


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<i>O19</i> <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
O19 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Ordered as K XIX 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. Design 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 mountings. Double-hulled, diesels were equipped by snorkels. there were Atlas Werke-produced sonar.

Modernizations

1944, O19: - 1 x 1 - 40/40, sonar; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, type 291W radar, type 120B sonar

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.



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