HNLMS O 9
Service
- as O 918 January 1926 — 1 December 19441,918 days of the war
- Name
- HNLMS O 9
- Builder
- Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Flushing
- Laid down
- 1 December 1923
- Launched
- 7 April 1925
- Commissioned
- 18 January 1926
- Decommissioned
- 1 December 1944
- Fate
- Sold for scrap October 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 526 long tons (534 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 656 long tons (667 t)
- Length
- 54.66 m (179.3 ft)
- Beam
- 5.7 m (18.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.53 m (11.6 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 9 was a O 9-class submarine built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Her keel was laid at Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Flushing on 1 December 1923. She entered service on 18 January 1926, having been launched on 7 April 1925.
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 526 long tons surfaced and 656 long tons submerged. She measured 54.7 m (179 ft) long with a beam of 5.7 m (19 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 1,918 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 December 1944.
She was broken up for scrap in October 1946.
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 × 250 bhp electric motors
- Armament
- 2 × 21 inch bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 17.7 inch bow torpedo tubes
- 1 × 17.7 inch stern torpedo tube
- 1 x 88 mm gun
- 1 x 12.7 mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS O 9 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
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