Royal Netherlands Navy — Submarine class
O 12-class submarine
O 12
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navies
- Royal Netherlands Navy 3
Kriegsmarine 1 - Built
- 1928–1932
- In commission
- 1931–1945
- Preceded by
- O 9 class
- Succeeded by
- HNLMS O 16
- Builders
- Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde (3)
- Fijenoord (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 610 long tons (620 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 754 long tons (766 t)
- Length
- 60.42 m (198.2 ft)
- Speed
- 16 knots (29.6 km/h, 18.4 mph)
- Complement
- 29
- Main gun
- 44 mm (1.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 21 inch bow torpedo tubes
- 1 × 21 inch stern torpedo tube
- 2 × 44 mm guns
- 1 × 12.7 mm machine gun
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNLMS O 12 | 1931 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| HNLMS O 13 | 1931 | 1940 | |
| HNLMS O 14 | 1932 | ||
| HNLMS O 15 | 1932 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from O 12-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.