HNLMS K X
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Onderzeeboot K X Soerabaja TMnr 10002148.jpg |Ship caption=Dutch Submarine K X in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= | Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|Netherlands|naval}} | Ship name=HNLMS K X | Ship ordered=27 June 1917 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Vlissingen | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number=169 | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=1 November 1919 | Ship launched=2 May 1923 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=24 September 1923 | Ship decommissioned=2 March 1942 | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=*Scuttled, 2 March 1942
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HNLMS K X was one of the three {{sclass|K VIII|submarine}}s of the Royal Netherlands Navy, built to serve as a patrol vessel in the Dutch colonies.{{cite web |url= http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_kx.htm |title=The submarine K X |work=dutchsubmarines.com |year=2012 |access-date=22 June 2012}}
Ship history
The submarine was ordered from the Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde shipyard at Vlissingen on 27 June 1917, but not laid down until 1 November 1919, and finally launched on 2 May 1923. Commissioned on 24 September 1923, she sailed alone to the Dutch East Indies in late 1924.
=World War II=
In February and March 1941 K X, {{Ship|HNLMS|K VIII||2}} and {{Ship|HNLMS|K XIX||2}} patrolled the Sunda Strait while based at Tanjung Priok, while the {{Ship|German cruiser|Admiral Scheer||2|up=yes}} was sinking Allied merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean.
After repairs at Surabaya K X returned to service on 8 December 1941 for local defense duties following the start of the war with Japan. On 25 December 1941 K X sailed to the Celebes Sea following the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.
On 8 January 1942 K X arrived at Tarakan in Borneo for repairs, just days before the Japanese invasion. K X slipped out of port on 10 January and after dark observed a large fleet of Japanese ships at anchor off the coast. While attempting to position herself for a torpedo attack the submarine was spotted by an enemy destroyer and was forced to submerge. Short on battery power and with faulty steering gear and only one diesel engine operating the submarine returned to Surabaya for repairs.
K X returned to duty on 24 February to patrol off Surabaya. During the Japanese invasion of Java she was damaged by depth charges and forced to return to port. On 2 March 1942 K X was scuttled at Surabaya to avoid being captured by the Japanese. K X was raised by the Japanese during the war and used as a floating oil hulk. Recovered by the Dutch after the war, she was scrapped at Surabaya in 1946.
Crewmen from K X, {{Ship|HNLMS|K IX||2}} and {{Ship|HNLMS|K XII||2}} were sent back to England to crew the submarine Haai, then under construction as {{HMS|Varne|P66}}, but their unescorted passenger ship {{MV|Abosso}} was sunk by the German U-boat {{GS|U-575||2}} north of the Azores on 29 October 1942,{{cite web
|url= http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2319.html
|title=MV Abosso
|last=Helgason
|first=Guðmundur
|website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net
|year=2012
|access-date=22 June 2012
}} and only four of the 34 Dutch Navy men aboard survived.{{cite web |url=http://www.lind.org.zw/ships/dempster_line/abosso/complement_abosso.pdf |title=Complement of the MV Abosso |work=lind.org.zw |year=2010 |access-date=22 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108031837/http://www.lind.org.zw/ships/dempster_line/abosso/complement_abosso.pdf |archive-date=8 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url= http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/alliesinadversity/australia/submarines.asp |title=Allies in Adversity : Australia and the Dutch in the Pacific War |work=Australian War Memorial }}
- {{cite web |url= http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/nl-marine-history-2.htm |title=Koninklijke Marine - World War II |work=globalsecurity.org }}
{{K VIII class submarines}}
{{March 1942 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Ships built in Vlissingen
Category:K VIII-class submarines