Dutch World War II Submarine Found Off Borneo

From the October 26, 2011, Borneo Post.  This was originally posted in the Cooter's History Thing blog on October 26, 2011, but I will reprint it here as next I intend to write about the Dutch Navy in World War II, something I had never heard of before.

Sport divers found the wreck of the Dutch World War II submarine HR.MS. KXVI off the northern coast of Borneo.  It had been missing since 1941 with its 36 crew members.  The divers had received a tip from local fishermen.

The 1,000 ton sub was part of an Allied fleet fighting the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies.

It had torpedoed the Japanese submarine hunter Sagiri on Christmas Eve 1941 and was sunk itself the next day by a Japanese submarine.

This brings to six the number of Dutch submarines sunk during World War II that have been found.  This leaves just one submarine, the wreck of the HR.MS. O 13, still not accounted for somewhere in the North Sea.

And, i Never Knew They Had a Navy.  --GreGen