Members of the House of the Representatives presented several amendments dealing with chapter VI of the Government Budget for 1924 (Navy) to prevent that the proposals of the cabinet were realized. The cabinet wanted to start with realizing the disapproved Naval Law meaning that in the future the first expenses were more as 20 million Dutch guilders. The members referred to the decision of the House dated 26 October (1923) that first the government finances were to be in balance before was started with improving the maritime defence. One of the amendments was dealing with preparatory actions for a mine laying submarine. Others were dealing with the first terms for new building of 2 flotilla vessels, 2 destroyers and new aircraft.(1)
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1. On 4 November 1915 stranded the German minelayer submarine UC-8 off Terschelling, Netherlands. She was salvaged by the Dutch government and regarded the Dutch neutrality in the First World War interned, commissioned in the Dutch navy on 13 March 1917, after the war bought from Germany and sold on 26 April 1934 at Den Helder, Netherlands to be broken up. In 1920 asked the chief of the Dutch naval staff at The Hague the naval liaison officer at Berlin, Germany for more details dealing with German minelayer submarines regarded a possible project investigating the use of such submarines in Dutch territorial waters or in the Dutch East Indies. Despite the intention was the first newly built minelayer submarine not earlier realized as in 1936. The O 19 (first to be named K XIX) was laid down on 15 June 1936. The Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Vlissingen, Netherlands designed in 1929-1934 a minelayer submarine but which was never built.
