''K I'' was a unique patrol
submarine of the
Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built by De Schelde shipyard in
Flushing
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Places
* Flushing, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom
* Flushing, Queens, New York City
** Flushing Bay, a bay off the north shore of Queens
** Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), a community in Queens
** Flushin ...
. The boat had a diving depth of .
Service history
The submarine was ordered on 19 October 1910 by the Ministry of Colonies. The next year on 16 September ''K I'' was laid down in Flushing at the shipyard of De Schelde. The launch took place on 20 May 1913. On 15 July 1914 ''K I'' was commissioned in the Dutch navy.
12 September 1916 ''K I'' began her journey to the
Dutch East Indies her theater of operations. For most of the journey she was towed by the tugboat ''Witte Zee''. The route they took paused at
The Downs,
Vigo
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,
Malta
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, the
Suez Canal,
Aden and
Colombo
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arriving at
Sabang on 6 November 1916. From Sabang to
Batavia
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Historical places
* Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands
* Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...
''K I'' was escorted by the coastal defence ship .
The boat was decommissioned in 1928.
Design
The HNLMS ''K I'' was specially designed for the service in the
Dutch East Indies, and then especially for doing service in the tropic weather. In order to parry the tropical heat for the vulnerable batteries, she had a large cooling system on board. Later on, an ingenious crew member connected the cooling installation to the ventilation system, which meant that the K I had an air conditioning system, even before it was officially invented.
References
External links
Description of ship
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1913 ships
Ships built in Vlissingen
Submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy
Submarines built by Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde