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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

COASTAL FORCES

P9 motor launches (1940-1941)

P9 1941

Names

P9 - 16

Builders

Tandjong Priok Droogdok: P9 - 16

Completed

1940 - 1941: P9 - 16

9/1945: P11 (2nd time), P12 (2nd time), P15 (2nd time), P16 (2nd time)

Losses

P9 (3/1942), P10 (3/1942), P11 (3/1942), P12 (3/1942), P13 (3/1942), P14 (3/1942), P15 (3/1942), P16 (3/1942)

Transfers

Indonesia, 1950: P11, 12, 15, 16

Discarding

None

 

Displacement standard, t

26

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.9 pp

Breadth, m

3.92

Draught, m

1.15

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Buda Lanova diesels

Power, h. p.

300

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/62

Complement

10

Project history: Patrol and guard boats which were a part of the Gouvernementmarine, type "P" were slow-speed, and type "S" were fast. Built on colonial wharfs under own projects, slightly improved from a series to a series.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: All boats were lost or have been destroyed by crews during time of Japanese offensive. Later Japanese had been salvaged and commissioned P11, 12, 13 (or 14), 15 and 16. Former boat P13 (or P14) was lost in 1943, remaining in 1945 were returned to the Netherlands and, presumably, in 1950 — 1951 all were transferred to Indonesia.

Many thanks to Stanislav Zaplatin for correction of information on this page.

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