HNLMS O 15
Service
- as HNLMS O 1528 July 1932 — 11 September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HNLMS O 15
- Builder
- Wilton-Fijenoord, Rotterdam
- Laid down
- 3 March 1930
- Launched
- 27 May 1931
- Commissioned
- 28 July 1932
- Decommissioned
- 11 September 1945
- 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 15 was a O 12-class submarine in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy. Wilton-Fijenoord, Rotterdam laid her keel on 3 March 1930. Launched on 27 May 1931, she entered service on 28 July 1932.
Four ships of the class were built. 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 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 11 September 1945.
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 15 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Ministerie van Defensie — Mark, C. Schepen van de Koninklijke Marine in W.O. II Alkmaar: De Alk bv, 1997, p.83 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons