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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=HNLMS K IV.jpg | Ship caption=K IV
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Netherlands | Netherlands}} | Ship name=K IV | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=De Schelde, Flushing | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=30 December 1915 | Ship launched=2 July 1920 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=27 April 1921 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=1936 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | K III|submarine|1}} | Ship type= | Ship displacement=*579 tons surfaced | 64.41|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}} | 5.6|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}} | 3.56|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}} | Ship power= | 600|bhp|0|abbr=on}} diesel engines- 2 × {{convert|210|bhp|0|abbr=on}} electric motors
| 15|kn|abbr=on|lk=in}} surfaced- {{convert|8.5|kn|abbr=on}} submerged
| 3500|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|11|kn|abbr=on}} on the surface- {{convert|25|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|8.5|kn|abbr=on}} submerged
| Ship test depth= | Ship complement=29 | Ship armament=*2 × 18 inch bow torpedo tubes- 2 × 18 inch external-traversing torpedo tubes forward of the conning tower
- 1 x 75 mm gun
- 1 x 12.7 mm machine gun
| Ship notes=
}} | K IV was a {{sclass-|K III|submarine|0}} patrol submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built by De Schelde shipyard in Flushing. Service historyThe submarine was ordered on 1 October 1915, and on 30 December that year K III was laid down in Flushing at the shipyard of De Schelde. The launch took place on 2 July 1920. On 27 April 1921 the ship is commissioned in the Dutch navy.[2] On 3 September 1921 K IV began her journey to the Dutch East Indies, her theater of operations. The route she took made stops in Algiers, the Suez Canal, Aden and Colombo arriving at Tanjung Priok on 23 December 1921. While in Colombo an explosion in the forward battery compartment occurred killing two men and wounding another.[2] In 1936 K IV was decommissioned.[2] References1. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/classes/class_kiii.htm |title=Dutch Submarines: The K III submarine class |first= |last= |work=dutchsubmarines.com |year=2012 |accessdate=19 July 2013}}
2. ^1 2 {{cite web |url= http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_kiv.htm |title=Dutch Submarines: The submarine K IV |first= |last= |work=dutchsubmarines.com |year=2012 |accessdate=19 July 2013}}
External links{{K III class submarine}}{{DEFAULTSORT:K IV, HNLMS}} 3 : 1920 ships|Ships built in the Netherlands|K III-class submarines |