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Pages in category "World War II submarines of the Netherlands" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
HNLMS O 1, the first submarine of the Dutch navy at sea . ... List of submarines of the Second World War This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 16:55 ...
O 19, laid down as K XIX, was an O 19-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II. O 19, along with her sister ship O 20, were the first submarines in the world to be equipped with a submarine snorkel that allowed the submarine to run its diesel engines while submerged.
In the war K XVIII sank several Japanese ships. [2] On 24 January 1942 the boat attacked the submarine chaser CH-12, but the torpedo ran too low as Ch-12 counter attacked with depth charges and badly damaged K XVIII. [2] While still under repair at Surabaya she was scuttled on 2 March 1942 in order to prevent the Japanese from capturing the ...
O 24, laid down K XXIV was an O 21-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II.The most famous occupant of O-24 was Piet de Jong, who was the commanding officer from 1944 until 1946 and who later became Minister of Defence in 1963 and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 until 1971.
During the war she operated in the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. O 23 made twenty patrols during the war in the course of which she sank or damaged five ships. She survived the war and was decommissioned on 1 December 1948, being sold for scrap in April of the following year.
The submarines' diving depth was 100 meters (330 ft). At the start of the Second World War the O 21 class was together with the British U , S and T classes and German Type VII one of the most advanced submarine classes in service at the time.
During this time docking and maintenance of the submarines took place at the shipyard of RDM. [6] For the OZD, this period just after World War II meant depending on Dutch pre-war submarines and second-hand British and American submarines. The commissioning of the Dolfijn-class submarines in the early 1960s was an important milestone.