The O-20 was a Dutch O-19 class submarine in the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II. O-20 along with her sister ship O-19 were the first boats in the world to be equipped with a "getrimd diesel systeem" or "snort system" that allowed the submarine to run its diesel engines while submerged.
O-20 was laid down June 15 1936 as the K XX. After which at some point she was renamed O-20. She was launched on January 31 1939, and ...
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The O-20 was a Dutch O-19 class submarine in the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II. O-20 along with her sister ship O-19 were the first boats in the world to be equipped with a "getrimd diesel systeem" or "snort system" that allowed the submarine to run its diesel engines while submerged.
O-20 was laid down June 15 1936 as the K XX. After which at some point she was renamed O-20. She was launched on January 31 1939, and on August 28 of the same year she was commissioned and assigned to the command of Ltz. I A.J. Bussemaker.
She was put into a squadron that consisted of two submarines: O-20 and O-15, and the sloop van Kinsbergen. This squadron departed the Netherlands for the Netherlands West Indies on either October 2 or 3rd 1939.
By December 23, 1939 O-20 reached the Netherlands West Indies via the Panama Canal.
On December 14, 1941 O-20 was under orders to patrol the South China Sea. On the 14th, two battleships and six cruisers were sighted, O-20 and O-19...
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