HNLMS O 11
Service
- as O 1118 January 1926 — 6 March 1940187 days of the war
- Name
- HNLMS O 11
- Builder
- Fijenoord, Rotterdam
- Laid down
- 24 December 1922
- Launched
- 19 March 1925
- Commissioned
- 18 January 1926
- Fate
- Sunk, 6 March 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 483 long tons (491 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 647 long tons (657 t)
- Length
- 54.56 m (179 ft)
- Beam
- 5.49 m (18 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 12 knots (22.2 km/h, 13.8 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 29
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
HNLMS O 11 was a O 9-class submarine in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy. Her keel was laid at Fijenoord, Rotterdam on 24 December 1922. Launched on 19 March 1925, she entered service on 18 January 1926.
Her class ran to three ships. The class followed the HNLMS O 8 and was succeeded by the O 12-class submarine.
The boat displaced 483 long tons surfaced and 647 long tons submerged. She measured 54.6 m (179 ft) long with a beam of 5.5 m (18 ft). Her designed speed was 12 knots, and she carried a complement of 29.
Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 187 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 6 March 1940. 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 × 450 bhp diesel engines
- 2 × 305 bhp electric motors
- Armament
- 2 × 21 in bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 17.7 in bow torpedo tubes
- 1 × 17.7 in stern torpedo tubes
- 1 x 88 mm deck gun
- 1 x 0.5 in machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS O 11 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Original uploader was DirkV at nl.wikipedia — Transferred from nl.wikipedia (Original text : [1] ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons