The Dutch cabinet asked the House of Representatives to approve a first budget of ƒ 1.000 needed for the preparatory actions of building a mine laying submarine.(1) In the coming years was of course more budget needed. It was believed that without problems the submarine could be built within 3 years.
Note
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.
Note
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.
