Royal Netherlands Navy — Submarine class
K VIII-class submarine
K VIII class
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Royal Netherlands Navy
- Built
- 19171923
- In commission
- 19221944
- Preceded by
- K V-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- K XI-class submarine
- Builders
- Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 520 long tons (528 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 583 long tons (592 t)
- Length
- 64.41 m (211.3 ft)
- Speed
- 16 knots (29.6 km/h, 18.4 mph)
- Complement
- 31
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes (2 bow, 2 stern)
- 10 × Type III 45cm torpedoes
- 1 × 88 mm deck gun
- 1 × 12.7 mm machine gun
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNLMS K IX (N39) | N39 | 1923 | 1945 |
| HNLMS K VIII | 1922 | 1943 | |
| HNLMS K X | 1923 | Scuttled 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from K VIII-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.