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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...
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    K XVII was one of five K XIV-class submarines built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. She served during World War II. HNLMS K XVII was the last design of...
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    miles (65 km) off Kuching, Sagiri was torpedoed by the Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI. Her aft magazine caught fire and exploded, sinking the ship with the...
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    Empire Barracuda, HNLMS O 16, U-127 16 Dec: U-557 17 Dec: Corregidor, Ro-66, Shinonome, U-131 18 Dec: U-434 19 Dec: HMS Neptune, HNLMS O 20, HMS Stanley...
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    shaft horsepower (21,600 kW) for a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph), though on speed trials she reached 31,268 shp (23,317 kW) and a speed of 21.09 kn...
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    assault training on San Clemente Island on 15 November. For Fleet Problem XVI, held from 29 April to 10 June 1935, the fleet conducted a series of maneuvers...
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    in this role for the next nine years; she participated in Fleet Problem XVI in May 1935, during which she served as a transport for a contingent of Marines...
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    relieved Bryant on 4 March 1935 and the ship participated in Fleet Problem XVI two months later. Arizona made a port visit to Balboa in May 1936 during...
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    shaft horsepower (21,600 kW) for a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph), though on speed trials she reached 31,268 shp (23,317 kW) and a speed of 21.09 kn...
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    HNLMS K XVII, U-451, U-567 23 Dec: Hayataka Maru, Montebello, Patrol Boat No. 32, Patrol Boat No. 33, Shuntien, U-79 24 Dec: Absaroka, HNLMS K XVI, USS...
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    normally delivered 100,000 shaft horsepower (75,000 kW), but could deliver 110,000 shp (82,000 kW) with forced draft. This gave Prince of Wales a top...
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  • HNLMS K XVII, U-451, U-567 23 Dec: Hayataka Maru, Montebello, Patrol Boat No. 32, Patrol Boat No. 33, Shuntien, U-79 24 Dec: Absaroka, HNLMS K XVI, USS...
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    defence ships Some landing ships ORP Błyskawica (Polish) HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (Dutch) HNLMS Isaac Sweers (Dutch) 4 French Elan-class avisos and Chamois-class...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927)
    (British Borneo) then to Kuching. Sagiri was sunk by Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI near Kuching on 24 December 1941. Fubuki was next involved in supporting...
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    vertical triple-expansion steam engines, which provided 24,800 ihp (18,500 kW) for a maximum speed of 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph). She had a designed...
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    HNLMS K XVII, U-451, U-567 23 Dec: Hayataka Maru, Montebello, Patrol Boat No. 32, Patrol Boat No. 33, Shuntien, U-79 24 Dec: Absaroka, HNLMS K XVI, USS...
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  • O 20, laid down as K XX, was a O 19-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II. O 20 along with her sister ship...
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    (84,000 kW), which would propel the ship at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph). During trials in 1916, Repulse's turbines provided 118,913 shp (88,673 kW), allowing...
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    afternoon, Kuching was in Japanese hands. On the night of 23–24 December, HNLMS K XVI torpedoed the Japanese destroyer Sagiri 30 miles (48 km) north of Kuching...
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  • bombers while in Surabaya harbor. HNLMS K XVI Dutch submarine sunk 25 December 1941 by submarine I-66 (later I-166). HNLMS K XVIII Dutch submarine damaged...
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  • Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak; K XVI is herself torpedoed...
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     Netherlands HNLMS K XVI – Sunk on 25 December 36 Navy 1941  Netherlands HNLMS K XVII – Struck by a mine on 21 December 36 Navy 1940  Netherlands HNLMS O 13 –...
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    was achieved with four triple-expansion engines totaling 16,000 ihp (12,000 kW), two clutched in tandem on each of two shafts. The forward engines could...
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    Mediterranean Fleet via the Red Sea, and by November was based at Malta with Force "K", operating against the Axis supply convoys to North Africa. On 15 December...
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    Shore Regiment, who informed Oglala's commanding officer, Commander Henry K. Bradford, that all of the men were safely pulled from the water. Barron was...
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    panic and sent residents fleeing to rural areas. The Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI managed to bring down the Japanese from Miri but, with the arrival of...
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    Connecticut. She was launched on 25 May 1939, sponsored by Mrs. Augusta K. Bloch, wife of Admiral Claude C. Bloch, Commander-in-Chief, United States...
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    room, below the waterline and the "B" turret. During 1941, she led Force K, a raiding squadron of cruisers. Their task was to intercept and destroy German...
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    HNLMS K XVII, U-451, U-567 23 Dec: Hayataka Maru, Montebello, Patrol Boat No. 32, Patrol Boat No. 33, Shuntien, U-79 24 Dec: Absaroka, HNLMS K XVI, USS...
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  • or early morning of the 23rd/24th, HNLMS K XVI torpedoed and sank the destroyer Sagiri. On 25 December 1941, HMNS K XIV attacked again and torpedoed and...
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