HNLMS K VIII
Service
- as HNLMS K VIII15 September 1922 — 18 May 1942990 days of the war
- Name
- HNLMS K VIII
- Builder
- Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Vlissingen
- Ordered
- 27 June 1917
- Laid down
- 31 October 1917
- Launched
- 28 March 1922
- Commissioned
- 15 September 1922
- Decommissioned
- 18 May 1942
- Struck
- 27 August 1942
- Fate
- Stripped and abandoned 1943
Destroyed, 1957 (1943) - Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 520 long tons (528 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 583 long tons (592 t)
- Length
- 64.41 m (211.3 ft)
- Beam
- 5.6 m (18.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.55 m (11.6 ft)
- Speed
- 16 knots (29.6 km/h, 18.4 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 31
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
HNLMS K VIII was a K VIII-class submarine built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Vlissingen laid her keel on 31 October 1917. She entered service on 15 September 1922, having been launched on 28 March 1922.
She was one of three ships of her class. The class followed the K V-class submarine and was succeeded by the K XI-class submarine.
She displaced 520 long tons standard and 583 long tons at full load. She measured 64.4 m (211 ft) long with a beam of 5.6 m (18 ft). Her designed speed was 16 knots, and she carried a complement of 31.
Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 990 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 18 May 1942. She was struck from the register on 27 August 1942.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × 900 hp 8-cylinder MAN 2-stroke diesel engines
- 2 × 200 hp electric motors
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes (2 bow, 2 stern)
- 10 × Type III 45 cm torpedoes
- 1 × 88 mm deck gun
- 1 × 12.7 mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS K VIII on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Wereldmuseum Amsterdam — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons