HNLMS K XVI
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HNLMS K XVI was one of five K XIV-class submarines built for the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN). Entering service in 1934, the submarine was deployed to the Netherlands East Indies. On 24 December 1941, K XVI torpedoed and sank the Sagiri; the first Allied submarine to sink a Japanese warship. A day later, the Dutch submarine was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-66 (later renumbered to be I-166) off Borneo, with all aboard killed. The wreck of K XVI was rediscovered in October 2011 by a group of recreational divers.
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HNLMS K XVI in the Dutch East Indies, circa 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. | |
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Name | HNLMS K XVI |
Ordered | 30 May 1929 |
Awarded | 31 May 1930 |
Builder | Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij |
Laid down | 8 April 1933 |
Commissioned | 31 January 1934 |
Fate | Sunk on 25 December 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | K XIV-class submarine |
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Length | 73.64 m (241 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 6.51 m (21 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 3.93 m (12 ft 11 in) |
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Complement | 38 |
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