Royal Netherlands Navy — Submarine class
O 19-class submarine
O 19 class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Royal Netherlands Navy
- Built
- 1936-1939
- In commission
- 1939-1945
- Preceded by
- HNLMS O 16
- Succeeded by
- O 21-class submarine
- Builders
- Wilton-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
- 1,109 long tons (1,127 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,491 long tons (1,515 t)
- Length
- 80.7 m (264.8 ft)
- Speed
- 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h, 22.4 mph)
- Complement
- 40
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 21 in bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 21 in stern torpedo tubes
- 2 × 21 in midships torpedo tubes in a rotating mount
- 10 × vertical mine tubes fitted on each beam (2 mines each - 40 mines total)
- 1 x 88 mm deck gun
- 2 x 40 mm anti-aircraft guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNLMS O 19 | 1939 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| HNLMS O 20 | 1939 | Sunk 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from O 19-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.