HNLMS K XIII
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= Hr. Ms. K X III.jpg |Ship caption=K XIII in 1926 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Netherlands |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Netherlands}} |Ship name=K XIII |Ship namesake= |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Fijenoord, Rotterdam |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= 15 October 1923 |Ship launched= 23 December 1924 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= 29 March 1926 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |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 honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate= Scuttled on 2 March 1942 |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Ship class={{sclass|K XI|submarine|1}} |Ship type= |Ship displacement=*688 tons surfaced
|Ship length= {{convert|66.7|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|6.15|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|3.78|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}} |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=*2 × {{convert|1200|bhp|0|abbr=on}} diesel engines
|Ship speed=*{{convert|17|kn|abbr=on|lk=in}} surfaced
|Ship range=*{{convert|3500|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|8|kn|abbr=on}} on the surface
|Ship test depth= |Ship complement=31 |Ship armament=*2 × {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} bow torpedo tubes{{cite magazine | url=https://www.klaarvooronderwater.nl/kvo/Kvo-047.pdf|author= |date=May 1994 |title=De Onderzeedienst in Ned. Oost.Indië (Slot)|magazine=Klaar Voor Onderwater |issue=47|location=Den Helder|publisher=Onderzeedienst Reünistenvereniging|pages=3-7|language=Dutch}}
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K XIII was a {{sclass|K XI|submarine|4}} patrol submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built by Fijenoord shipyard in Rotterdam.
Service history
The submarine was ordered on 3 September 1921 and laid down in Rotterdam at the shipyard of Fijenoord on 15 October 1923.{{cite magazine |last=Horneman |first=G.D. |url=https://www.klaarvooronderwater.nl/kvo/Kvo-077.pdf|date=September 2001 |title=Nieuwe gegevens met betrekking tot sabotagepoging aan boord van Hr.Ms. K-XIII (deel-2 slot) |magazine=Klaar Voor Onderwater |volume=24|issue=77|location=Den Helder |publisher=Onderzeedienst Reünistenvereniging |pages=12-16 |language=Dutch}} The launch took place on 23 December 1924.
On 29 March 1926 the boat was commissioned in the Dutch navy.{{cite web |url= http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_kxiii.htm |title=Dutch Submarines: The submarine K XIII |work=dutchsubmarines.com |year=2012 |access-date=15 September 2013}}
On 27 May 1926 K XIII left Den Helder for the Dutch East Indies.{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date=June 1985 |title=Nog een reis.|url=https://www.klaarvooronderwater.nl/kvo/Kvo-011.pdf|magazine=Klaar Voor Onderwater|location=Den Helder|publisher=Onderzeedienst Reünistenvereniging|issue=11|language=Dutch|page=11}} Onboard was professor F.A. Vening Meinesz, who was to conduct gravity measurements. The submarine made the journey alone and took a route that led by Horta, Willemstad, Mazatlán, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon and Burma. She arrived in Surabaya on 13 December 1926.
The following years she made several trips to conduct gravity measurements for professor F.A. Vening Meinesz{{'}}s research.
Destinations were Christmas Island, the Gulf of Boni, the Makassar Strait and Sumatra.
On 6 September 1938 she participated in a fleet review at Surabaya. The review was held in honour of the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who was than 40 years the head of state. More than twenty navy ships participated in the review.
=World War II=
K XIII patrolled from 7–16 December 1941 in the South China Sea and off Malaya. During this patrol the Netherlands declared war on Japan. An unsuccessful attack was made on the Japanese invasion fleet on 10 December 1941 of the north east coast of Malaya.
The boat was damaged as a result of a battery explosion in the Singapore harbor on 21 December 1941. Three men were killed in the explosion. Afterwards K XIII returned to Surabaya for repairs and was escorted by the destroyer {{HNLMS|Van Nes|1930|2}} where they arrived on 6 January 1942.
Still under repairs the boat was scuttled to prevent her being captured by the invading Japanese forces on 2 March 1942.
References
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External links
- [http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_kxiii.htm Description of ship]
{{K XI class submarine}}
{{March 1942 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Ships built in Schiedam