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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
K XIV		167	Rotterdamse Droogdok Mij, Rotterdam	5.1930	11.7.1931	7.1933	stricken 4.1946
K XV		168	Rotterdamse Droogdok Mij, Rotterdam	5.1930	10.12.1932	12.1933	stricken 4.1946
K XVI		169	Rotterdamse Droogdok Mij, Rotterdam	5.1930	8.4.1933	1.1934	sunk 25.12.1941
K XVII		322	Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam	6.1931	26.7.1932	12.1933	sunk 21.12.1941
K XVIII		323	Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam	6.1931	27.9.1932	3.1934	scuttled 2.3.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	865 / 1045
Length, m	73.6
Breadth, m	6.51
Draught, m	3.93
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MAN 8-cyl diesels / 2 Smit Slikkerveer electric motors
Power, h. p.	3200 / 960
Max speed, kts	17 / 9
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	10000(12) / 26(8.5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/42 Bofors No.2, 2 x 1 - 40/36 Bofors, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 1 x 2, 14)
Complement	38
Diving depth operational, m	80

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Project history

Ordered 30.5.1930, development of O12 class with increased dimensions and additional twin turnable TT in a superstructure fwd from a conning tower. Also one stern TT was added. Double-hulled. At building welding was widely applied to weight reduction. Besides two usual periscopes, submarines were equipped with periscopic antenna for possibility to use the radio in submerged position. On trials they reached up to 19kts surfaced. Both 40mm MGs took places in disappearing installations.

Modernizations

1942-1943, K XIV, XV: - 2 x 1 - 40/36, 1 x 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 291W radar, WDA, JP (presumably) sonars

Naval service

K XVI was torpedoed 25.12.1941 by Japanese submarine I66 NW off Kuching (Borneo). K XVII was lost 21.12.1941 on a mine in gulf of Siam. K XVIII was scuttled at Surabaya 2.3.1942; she was salvaged by Japanese in 1944, used as radar-picket hulk and sunk 16.6.1945 by British submarine Taciturn off Surabaya.



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