Royal Netherlands Navy — Submarine
HNLMS O 13
Service
- as O 131 October 1931 — 12 June 1940285 days of the war
O 12-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HNLMS O 13
- Builder
- Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Vlissingen
- Laid down
- 1 December 1928
- Launched
- 18 April 1931
- Commissioned
- 1 October 1931
- Fate
- Missing after 12 June 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 610 long tons (620 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 754 long tons (766 t)
- Length
- 60.4 m (198.2 ft)
- Beam
- 6.8 m (22.3 ft)
- Draught
- 3.6 m (11.8 ft)
- Speed
- 16 knots (29.6 km/h, 18.4 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 29
- Main gun
- 44 mm (1.7 in)
HNLMS O 13 was a O 12-class submarine, operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy. Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Vlissingen laid her keel on 1 December 1928. She entered service on 1 October 1931, having been launched on 18 April 1931.
Her class ran to four ships. The class followed the O 9 class and was succeeded by the HNLMS O 16.
The boat displaced 610 long tons surfaced and 754 long tons submerged. She measured 60.4 m (198 ft) long with a beam of 6.8 m (22 ft). Her designed speed was 16 knots, and she carried a complement of 29.
Her main battery was two 44 mm (1.7 in) guns.
She was in commission for 285 days of the Second World War.
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 × 900 bhp diesel engines
- 2 × 310 bhp electric motors
- Armament
- 4 × 21 inch bow torpedo tubes
- 1 × 21 inch stern torpedo tube
- 2 × 44 mm guns
- 1 × 12.7 mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS O 13 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Dutch Navy personel — Mark, C. Schepen van de Koninklijke Marine in W.O. II Alkmaar: De Alk bv, 1997 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons