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O19 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
O19 (ex-K XIX)		657	Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam	6.1936	22.9.1938	7.1939	wrecked 8.7.1945
O20 (ex-K XX)		658	Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam	6.1936	31.1.1939	8.1939	sunk 19.12.1941

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	999
Displacement normal, t	1116 / 1561
Length, m	80.9
Breadth, m	7.41
Draught, m	3.87
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer 7-cyl diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	5300 / 1000
Max speed, kts	19.5 / 9
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	10000(12) / 27(8.5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/42 Bofors No.2, 2 x 1 - 40/36 Bofors, 1 x 1 - 12.7/90, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 14), 40 mines
Electronic equipment	Atlas-built sonar
Complement	40
Diving depth operational, m	100

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Project history

Ordered as K XIX and X, but then letters in their names replaced in connection with the decision on liquidation of differences between submarines of domestic and colonial basing. Design was developed on the basis of Polish Orzel class submarines, built in the Netherlands, thus O19 and O20 became the first minelaying submarines of Dutch Navy.

Minelaying equipment of French Normand-Fenaux system consisted of 10 vertical tubes on 2 mines each from each side. 2 single 40mm Bofors MGs were placed in disappearing mountings. Double-hulled, diesels were equipped by snorkels. there were Atlas Werke-produced sonar.

Modernizations

1944, O19: - 1 x 1 - 40/40, sonar; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, type 291W radar, type 120B sonar

Naval service

O20 was sunk 19.12.1941 by Japanese destroyer Uranami at Kota-Bharu (Malaya). O19 8.7.1945 ran areef in South China sea and 10.7.1945 sunk by torpedoes from American submarine Cod.



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