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Monday 5 September 2011

Dutch submarines O1-O10

O 1, ex-onderzeeboot I and ex-Luctor en Emergo, on stocks 1 June 1904 at Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing, launched 8 July 1905, transferred 20 December 1906 to Royal Navy, commissioned 21 December 1906, stricken 1920.
O 2, ex-onderzeeboot II, on stocks 11 October 1909 at Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing, launched 30 January 1910, commissioned 1 December 1911, stricken 1930, fitted out as training divingboat 1931.
O 3, ex-onderzeeboot III, on stocks 31 December 1910 at Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing, launched 30 July 1912, commissioned 11 February 1913, stricken 1932
O 4, ex-onderzeeboot IV, on stocks 15 June 1912 at Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing, launched 5 August 1913, commissioned 17 June 1914, stricken 1935.
O 5, ex-onderzeeboot V, on stocks 15 June 1912 at Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing, launched 2 October 1913, commissioned 20 or 21 August 1913, stricken 1935.
O 6, on stocks 21 May 1914 at Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing, launched 10 June 1915/15 July 1916, commissioned 5 December 1916, stricken November 1936.
O 7, on stocks 12 May 1914 at Maatschappij Fijenoord at Rotterdam, launched 22 July 1916, commissioned 21 December 1916, stricken 21 or 23 December 1939 and sold to be broken up.
O 8, ex-H 6, launched at Canadian Vickers, Montreal 1915, stranded on Dutch coast near Scchiermonnikoog 18 January 1916 and interned. Transferred from England and commissioned 7 May 1917 in Dutch Royal Navy, 'destroyed'  May 1940 at Den Helder, repaired by the Germans and in German naval service 20 November 1940, decommissioned 23 November 1945, May 1945 at Kiel by German navy personnel destroyed.
O 9, on stocks 23 September 1922 at Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing, launched 7 April 1925, commissioned 18 January 1926, October 1946 sold to be broken up.
O 10, on stocks 24 December 1923 at Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij at Amsterdam, launched 30 July 1925, commissioned 1 September 1926, October 1946 sold to be broken up.

Sources
P.C. Jalhay and G.J. Horneman, Periscoop op! Nederlandse onderzeeboten.
A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der Gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962.