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O 10 (Dutch)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: Dutch O9
Fate: Decommissioned in October 1944.
In October 1946 she was sold for scrapping.
HNLMS O10
HNLMS O10

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Commanders
1939: Lieutenant   Gerrit Quint (RNNR)
1941: Lieutenant   Donald Theodoor Mackay (RNN)
1943: Lieutenant Commander   Arie Van Altena (RNNR)

Built by the shipyard of Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij

From 9 to 11 May 1940 she and O9 are on patrol off the coast of the Netherlands. During the patrol O9 was attacked by German military airplanes after which O9, O10 and a tugboat fled to the United Kingdom where they arrived on 15 May 1940.

During the war she patrolled the English Channel, Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay. From July to August 1940 O10 was attached to the 7th Training Flotilla in Rothesay and used as an ASDIC piggy boat. She was transferred to the 9th Flotilla in Dundee where she served from 30 August 1940 to July 1944.

Related Pages

1940 - 1946: The 9th Foltilla

RN Submarine Database

Events

 00-00-0000   Laid down
 30-07-1925   Launched
 01-09-1926   Commissioned
 16-05-1940   Arrived at Portsmouth along with HrMs O9, HrMs O23 and HrMs O24.
 11-10-1944   Decommissioned
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