HNLMS O 19

History
O 19
Netherlands
Name:	O 19
Builder:	Fijenoord, Rotterdam
Laid down:	15 June 1936
Launched:	22 September 1938
Commissioned:	3 July 1939
Fate:	Scuttled on 10 July 1945
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type:	O 19-class submarine
Displacement:	1109 tons surfaced 1491 tons submerged
Length:	80.7 m (264 ft 9 in)
Beam:	7.41 m (24 ft 4 in)
Draught:	3.87 m (12 ft 8 in)
Propulsion:	2 × 2,650 bhp (1,976 kW) diesel engines 2 × 500 bhp (373 kW) electric motors
Speed:	19.5 kn (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) surfaced 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged
Range:	10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) on the surface 27 nmi (50 km; 31 mi) at 8.5 kn (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) submerged
Complement:	40
Armament:	4 × 21 inch bow torpedo tubes 4 × 21 inch stern torpedo tubes Mine tubes: 2 x 10 external shafts amidships each side.

O 19, laid down as K XIX, was an O 19-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II. O 19, along with her sister ship O 20 were the first submarines in the world to be equipped with a submarine snorkel that allowed the submarine to run its diesel engines while submerged.^[1]^[2]

Ship history

O 19 aground on Ladd Reef

The submarine's keel was laid at the Wilton-Fijenoord shipyard in Rotterdam on 15 June 1936 as K XIX but was renamed O 19 at some point. The submarine was launched on 22 September 1938 and commissioned in the Dutch navy on 3 July 1939. From 25 July until 13 September 1939, O 19 sailed to the Dutch East Indies via the Suez Canal.^[3]

The submarine performed multiple patrols and missions in the Pacific theater of World War II, sinking multiple Japanese vessels, attacking shipping convoys and laying mines.^[3]

On 8 July 1945, O 19 was en route to Subic Bay in the Philippines at a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) when it struck Ladd Reef in the South China Sea. Unable to pull free of the reef, the crew of O 19 were rescued by USS Cod. To prevent enemy capture, O 19 was scuttled by her crew using explosives, torpedoes and gunfire.^[3]

Summary of raiding history

Ships sunk by O 19.^[2]

Date	Ship name	Nationality/Type	Tonnage (GRT)	Fate
10 January 1942	Akita Maru	Japanese freighter	3817	Sunk^[3]
15 January 1942	Tairu/Taieryu Maru	Japanese ?	4944	Sunk^[3]
10 September 1944	Korei Maru	Japanese merchant	599	Sunk
16 November 1944	Kaishin Maru No.2	Japanese coaster	150	Sunk^[3]
9 January 1945	Shinko Maru No.1	Japanese auxiliary gunboat	935	Sunk
10 April 1945	Hosei Maru	Japanese merchant tanker	676	Sunk

References

1 2 "Dutch Submarines: The O 19 submarine class". dutchsubmarines.com. 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
1 2 Helgason, Guðmundur (2013). "HNMS O 19". uboat.net. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Dutch Submarines: The submarine O 19". dutchsubmarines.com. 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2013.

External links

Coordinates: 8°40′N 111°40′E / 8.667°N 111.667°E / 8.667; 111.667

O 19-class submarines

O 19 O 20

Preceded by: HNLMS O 16 Followed by: O 21 class List of submarines of the Netherlands

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1945

Shipwrecks	2 Jul: Empire Fal 4 Jul: Bahia 8 Jul: HNLMS O 19 11 Jul: Sakura 14 Jul: I-351, Tachibana 15 Jul: Francis Preston Blair, HMS Ludlow, HMS Maori, Walter L M Russ 16 Jul: USS Gamble, I-13 17 Jul: HMS Athlete 18 Jul: Kasuga, Yakaze 20 Jul: Kiyokawa Maru 24 Jul: Aoba, Amagi, Hyūga, Iwate, Settsu, HMS Squirrel, Tone, USS Underhill 25 Jul: Kotobuki Maru, PB-2 26 Jul: HMS Vestal 28 Jul: USS Callaghan, Haruna, Ise, Izumo, Ōyodo 30 Jul: Hatsushimo, USS Indianapolis, Okinawa Unknown date: HMCS St. Francis

1944 1945 1946 June 1945 August 1945

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