Royal Netherlands Navy — Submarine class
K XI-class submarine
K XI class
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Royal Netherlands Navy
- Built
- 1922-1926
- Preceded by
- K VIII class
- Succeeded by
- K XIV class
- Builders
- Fijenoord, Rotterdam
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 688 long tons (699 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 828 long tons (841 t)
- Length
- 66.7 m (218.8 ft)
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Complement
- 31
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 21 inch bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 17.7 inch bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 17.7 inch stern torpedo tubes
- 1 x 88 mm Bofors gun
- 1 x 12.7 mm machine gun
Roster
Holding 2 of the 3 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNLMS K XI | 1925 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| HNLMS K XII | 1925 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from K XI-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.