HNLMS K X
- Name
- HNLMS K X
- Builder
- Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Vlissingen
- Ordered
- 27 June 1917
- Laid down
- 1 November 1919
- Launched
- 2 May 1923
- Commissioned
- 24 September 1923
- Decommissioned
- 2 March 1942
- Fate
- Scuttled, 2 March 1942
Scrapped, 1946 (1942) - Status
- Wreck
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
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 31
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
HNLMS K X was a K VIII-class submarine. Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Vlissingen laid her keel on 1 November 1919. She entered service on 24 September 1923, having been launched on 2 May 1923.
Three ships of the class were built. 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 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 31.
Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.
She was decommissioned on 2 March 1942.
She was scuttled on 2 March 1942. The wreck survives.
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 × 775 hp 6-cylinder Sulzer 2-stroke diesel engines
- 2 × 200 hp electric motors
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes (2 bow, 2 stern)
- 10 × Type III 45cm torpedoes
- 1 × 88 mm deck gun
- 1 × 12.7mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS K X on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Wereldmuseum Amsterdam — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons