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K IX Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
K VIII		167	De Schelde, Vlissingen	10.1917	28.3.1922	9.1922	stricken 7.1942
K IX		168	De Schelde, Vlissingen	3.1919	23.12.1922	6.1923	to Australia 6.1943 (K9)
K X		169	De Schelde, Vlissingen	11.1919	2.5.1923	9.1923	scuttled 2.3.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	520
Displacement normal, t	583 / 810
Length, m	64.4
Breadth, m	5.60
Draught, m	3.55
No of shafts	2
Machinery	K VIII: 2 MAN 8-cyl diesels / 2 electric motors K IX, X: 2 Sulzer 6-cyl diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	K VIII: 1800 / 400 K IX, X: 1550 / 400
Max speed, kts	K VIII: 16 / 8 K IX, X: 15 / 8
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(11) / 25(8)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/42 Bofors No.2, 4 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 10)
Complement	31
Diving depth operational, m	50

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Project history

Holland design submarines, built under 1916 programme under drawings of ELCO. Double-hulled. Under original design they should have 75mm gun. As the building has been delayed, it was possible to consider First World War experience. So, they have refused turnable TT provided by design, and by 4m periscopes were lengthened.

Modernizations

late 1920s, all: + 1 x 1 - 12.7/90

Naval service

K VIII was hard damaged 21.12.1941 as a result of battery explosion at Singapore; 15.7.1942 she was stricken and 27.8.1942 sold for BU. K IX was transferred to RAN 22.6.1943, returned 31.5.1944 and later used as a fuel oil barge; 9.6.1945 she was lost as a result of beaching. K Х was scuttled at Surabaya 2.3.1942.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.