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Name | O 22 |
Builder | Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde , Vlissingen |
Laid down | 20 November 1937 |
Launched | 20 January 1940 |
Commissioned | 10 May 1940 |
Fate | Lost in 1940 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | O 21-class submarine |
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Length | 77.7 m (254 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 6.8 m (22 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 3.95 m (13 ft 0 in) |
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Complement | 39 |
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O 22, laid down K XXII was an O 21-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II.
The submarine was ordered on 12 April 1937 and laid down on 20 November 1937 as K XXII at the Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Vlissingen. During construction she was renamed O 22, and was finally launched on 20 January 1940. Following the German invasion of 10 May 1940, O 22 was hastily commissioned, still incomplete, and sailed for England on 12 May together with her sister O 21 and the tugboat B.V. 37, to be finally completed at the Navy yard in Rosyth. [2]
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