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K8

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp.	Fate
K1 (ex-X4)			Ropner, Stockton, UK		6.1915	1915 // 1921	sunk 8.9.1925
K2 (ex-X6)			Head Wrightson, Middlesbrough, UK		1915	1915 // 1921	auxiliary 5.1941
K3 (ex-X13)			Laing, Sunderland, UK		1915	1915 // 1921	lost 1925/35
K4 (ex-X14)			Austin, Sunderland, UK		8.5.1915	1915 // 1921	lost 1925/35
K5 (ex-X16)			Austin, Sunderland, UK		2.6.1915	1915 // 1921	lost 1925/35
K6 (ex-X17)			Austin, Sunderland, UK		10.6.1915	1915 // 1921	lost 1925/35
K7 (ex-X26)			Craig Taylor, Stockton, UK		2.7.1915	1915 // 1921	lost 1925/35
K8 (ex-X50)			Richardson Duck, Thornaby, UK		8.5.1915	1915 // 1921	auxiliary 5.1941
K9 (ex-X63)			Sunderland SB, South Dock, UK		1915	1915 // 1921	auxiliary 5.1941
K10 (ex-X74)			Short, Pallion, UK		1915	1915 // 1921	auxiliary 5.1941
K11 (ex-X91)			Caledon, Dundee, UK		1915	1915 // 1924	sunk 8.9.1925
K12 (ex-X108)			Northumberland, Howden, UK		1915	1915 // 1924	auxiliary 5.1941
K13 (ex-X109)			Northumberland, Howden, UK		1915	1915 // 1924	auxiliary 5.1941
K14 (ex-X129)			Goole SB, UK		1915	1915 // 1924	auxiliary 5.1941
K15 (ex-X141)			Doxford, Pallion, UK		26.3.1915	1915 // 1924	auxiliary 5.1941
K16 (ex-X148), later K28			Doxford, Pallion, UK		28.5.1915	1915 // 1924	auxiliary 5.1941
K17 (ex-X153)			Doxford, Pallion, UK		29.6.1915	1915 // 1925	lost 1925/35
K18 (ex-X170)			Beardmore, Dalmuir, UK		1915	8.1915 // 1925	auxiliary 5.1941
K19 (ex-X172)			Beardmore, Dalmuir, UK		1915	8.1915 // 1925	auxiliary 5.1941
K20 (ex-X173)			Beardmore, Dalmuir, UK		1915	8.1915 // 1925	auxiliary 5.1941
K21 (ex-X174)			Beardmore, Dalmuir, UK		1915	8.1915 // 1925	damaged 8.9.1925, never repaired
K22 (ex-X186)			Caird, Greenock, UK		1915	1915 // 1925	damaged 8.9.1925, never repaired
K23 (ex-X190)			Caird, Greenock, UK		1915	1915 // 1925	auxiliary 5.1941
K24 (ex-X200)			Wrightson, Middlesbrough, UK		6.1915	1915 // 1925	lost 1925/35
K25 (ex-X205)			George Brown, Greenock, UK		1916	1916 // 1925	auxiliary 5.1941
K26 (ex-X221)			Simons, Renfrew, UK		9.1916	9.1916 // 1925	auxiliary 5.1941

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	K1 - 24: 160 X25, 26: 137
Displacement full, t
Length, m	K1 - 24: 32.2 K25, 26: 29.6
Breadth, m	K1 - 24: 6.40 K25, 26: 6.10
Draught, m	1.50
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 Bolinder semi-diesel
Power, h. p.	60
Max speed, kts	8
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(12)
Armament	none
Military load	300 troops or 150 t of cargo
Complement	15

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Project history

For landing operations in Morocco Spaniards bought in Great Britain 27 landing barges of X type. First batch (K1-10) was transferred at Gibraltar in 1921, remaining in Great Britain in 1924-1925.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Barges shared in well-known landing in bay Aluchemas 8.9.1925 when, in particular, for the first time in the world have been used for landing of tanks (Renault FT). After that they were used mainly as harbour crafts. 16 survived barges in 1936 got under the control of Republicans (it was possible to use on direct purpose no more than ten). Four of them (K12, 14-16) were used at landing at Mallorca in August, 1936. Thus K12, 14 and 16 were abandoned at evacuation of Republican forces from island and came into the hands of Nationalists, being used then coastal shipping on Balearic islands. K14 foundered in February, 1937 during a storm at Palma (Mallorca), but was salvaged and in 1940 commissioned again. K13 and 25 were used by Nationalists as patrols in strait of Gibraltar. During WWII K16 and 18 were converted to minelayers. Last barge of this type, K19, was stricken in 1962.