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UPDATED 2022/07/26 - Finally got a proper rip of this model with the right textures.

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Ported to OBJ from the model included with the BH Update ("BH" is for BubbleHead, its creator) for the v2.5 release of the Trigger Maru Overhauled (TMO) mega-mod for Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition (SH4G or SH4 1.5). Original sub model by JapLance. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. Both the BH Update and TMO are currently SubSim site exclusives (membership required), so no free public download option available (awwwwwww!!!)

This model is used to represent two very similar successive submarine classes in the World War II era Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine or RNN my book), or just Dutch Navy for short. They both looked very much alike, although the first was somewhat longer and both were designed to operate quite differently in naval service.

The O-19 class was the first, consisting of just two boats (O-19 and O-20) and first entering service in July of 1939, only two months before the outbreak of World War II. These were large 80 meter (265 ft) minelaying submarines patterned after the contemporary Polish Orzel class attack boats (but were four meters shorter), which should come as no surprise given that the same Dutch shipbuilder was involved in both cases (Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam) as was the same designer (G. van Rooy). These were the first minelaying submarines fielded by the Dutch Navy since World War I. It was one of the first European sub classes fitted with snorkels and also one of the first to feature a on-board sonar set (or ASDIC as it became known during the war). Both of these would become standard "preferred" features for all naval submarines by the end of the war, and both were also lost during the war. O-20 had to be abandoned and was scuttled on 19 December 1941 following an attack by 20 (!!!) Japanese destroyers protecting a convoy she attempted to attack but wound up being badly mauled with no hope of repair or escape during the encounter. Per the accounts I've read it was kind of like that scene in Das Boot when U-96 tried to run the Gibraltar gauntlet and failed, only in this case it didn't have a happy ending. Seven of her crew died during the encounter, including her captain, while the 32 survivors of her crew were picked up by the IJN destroyer Uranami. Her wreck was relocated on 12 June 2002 about 35 miles northeast of Kota Baru, Malaysia. O-19 fought the entire war on the Allied side but had to be abandoned and subsequently scuttled on 8 July 1945. She was surfaced and running at top speed headed for Subic Bay in the Philippines when she first stuck and then became stuck hard on Ladd Reef in the South China Sea. Her crew was taken off by the American submarine USS Cod, with volunteers from among their number returning to O-19 and successfully scuttling her with a mixture of explosives and her own torpedoes, with the Cod assisting via well-placed shellfire from her deck gun. To find out more about the Dutch Navy's O-19 class minelaying submarines of World War II, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_19-cla…

The subsequent O-21 class of the Dutch Navy were pure attack boats, somewhat smaller and considerably lighter thanks to the removal of all minelaying gear. It also wound up being one of the few World War II era warship classes whose members fought on both sides, like many French Navy ship classes, and for the same reason. This was due entirely to the German invasion of the Netherlands in the spring of 1940, which found all seven members of the class in varying stages of completion. The four closest to completion (O-21 to O-24) were hastily launched and escaped to Great Britain, where they completed their final fitting out and served with the Allies for the rest of the war. The Germans wound up with the other three, finished them on their own, and incorporated them into the Nazi German Navy or Reich Kriegsmarine (RKM) as UD-3, UD-4, and UD-5 respectively. Three were lost during the war, and the surviving four were returned to the Dutch Navy following the end of hostilities. Of these O-23 was the first to go in 1948, being in the worst shape, but the other three would survive well into the first full decade of the Cold War before their time came to make their final voyage to the breakers. O-24 was next in 1954, then came class boat O-21 in 1957, and last of all was the German-finished O-27 (ex-UD-5) near the end of 1959. To find out more about the Dutch Navy's World War II era O-21 class of attack submarines, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_21-cla…

This is a straight port with no changes by me.

If you dig into the actual BH mod pack data, you'll find that this model's actual name is NSS_O21, and model creator JapLance explains this in the comments below. After all, O-21 was just a somewhat smaller O-19 redesigned as a pure attack boat, so it makes sense to use one model to double for both in the game.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE 1 - Just like the Polish Orzel, these are excellent attack boats for their size class, which would be that of the medium submarine in wartime terms. That puts them in some pretty good company against whom they have to compete, you know. The German Type VII series, the Japanese kaichu, the Russian Shchuka series, and so on. You know the Italian Marcello is looking jealously at all of them .... XD

ASIDE 2 - So the Dutch O-19/21 is now available for the Silent Hunter series. Somehow I sense that the Polish Orzel and Sep may not be too far off, given their similarities. I already have an excellent low-poly model to represent those in C21VN, but I will also always take a better one -- especially if it's free.

Description

UPDATED 2022/07/26 - Finally got a proper rip of this model with the right textures.

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Ported to OBJ from the model included with the BH Update ("BH" is for BubbleHead, its creator) for the v2.5 release of the Trigger Maru Overhauled (TMO) mega-mod for Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition (SH4G or SH4 1.5). Original sub model by JapLance. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. Both the BH Update and TMO are currently SubSim site exclusives (membership required), so no free public download option available (awwwwwww!!!)

This model is used to represent two very similar successive submarine classes in the World War II era Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine or RNN my book), or just Dutch Navy for short. They both looked very much alike, although the first was somewhat longer and both were designed to operate quite differently in naval service.

The O-19 class was the first, consisting of just two boats (O-19 and O-20) and first entering service in July of 1939, only two months before the outbreak of World War II. These were large 80 meter (265 ft) minelaying submarines patterned after the contemporary Polish Orzel class attack boats (but were four meters shorter), which should come as no surprise given that the same Dutch shipbuilder was involved in both cases (Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam) as was the same designer (G. van Rooy). These were the first minelaying submarines fielded by the Dutch Navy since World War I. It was one of the first European sub classes fitted with snorkels and also one of the first to feature a on-board sonar set (or ASDIC as it became known during the war). Both of these would become standard "preferred" features for all naval submarines by the end of the war, and both were also lost during the war. O-20 had to be abandoned and was scuttled on 19 December 1941 following an attack by 20 (!!!) Japanese destroyers protecting a convoy she attempted to attack but wound up being badly mauled with no hope of repair or escape during the encounter. Per the accounts I've read it was kind of like that scene in Das Boot when U-96 tried to run the Gibraltar gauntlet and failed, only in this case it didn't have a happy ending. Seven of her crew died during the encounter, including her captain, while the 32 survivors of her crew were picked up by the IJN destroyer Uranami. Her wreck was relocated on 12 June 2002 about 35 miles northeast of Kota Baru, Malaysia. O-19 fought the entire war on the Allied side but had to be abandoned and subsequently scuttled on 8 July 1945. She was surfaced and running at top speed headed for Subic Bay in the Philippines when she first stuck and then became stuck hard on Ladd Reef in the South China Sea. Her crew was taken off by the American submarine USS Cod, with volunteers from among their number returning to O-19 and successfully scuttling her with a mixture of explosives and her own torpedoes, with the Cod assisting via well-placed shellfire from her deck gun. To find out more about the Dutch Navy's O-19 class minelaying submarines of World War II, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_19-cla…

The subsequent O-21 class of the Dutch Navy were pure attack boats, somewhat smaller and considerably lighter thanks to the removal of all minelaying gear. It also wound up being one of the few World War II era warship classes whose members fought on both sides, like many French Navy ship classes, and for the same reason. This was due entirely to the German invasion of the Netherlands in the spring of 1940, which found all seven members of the class in varying stages of completion. The four closest to completion (O-21 to O-24) were hastily launched and escaped to Great Britain, where they completed their final fitting out and served with the Allies for the rest of the war. The Germans wound up with the other three, finished them on their own, and incorporated them into the Nazi German Navy or Reich Kriegsmarine (RKM) as UD-3, UD-4, and UD-5 respectively. Three were lost during the war, and the surviving four were returned to the Dutch Navy following the end of hostilities. Of these O-23 was the first to go in 1948, being in the worst shape, but the other three would survive well into the first full decade of the Cold War before their time came to make their final voyage to the breakers. O-24 was next in 1954, then came class boat O-21 in 1957, and last of all was the German-finished O-27 (ex-UD-5) near the end of 1959. To find out more about the Dutch Navy's World War II era O-21 class of attack submarines, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_21-cla…

This is a straight port with no changes by me.

If you dig into the actual BH mod pack data, you'll find that this model's actual name is NSS_O21, and model creator JapLance explains this in the comments below. After all, O-21 was just a somewhat smaller O-19 redesigned as a pure attack boat, so it makes sense to use one model to double for both in the game.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE 1 - Just like the Polish Orzel, these are excellent attack boats for their size class, which would be that of the medium submarine in wartime terms. That puts them in some pretty good company against whom they have to compete, you know. The German Type VII series, the Japanese kaichu, the Russian Shchuka series, and so on. You know the Italian Marcello is looking jealously at all of them .... XD

ASIDE 2 - So the Dutch O-19/21 is now available for the Silent Hunter series. Somehow I sense that the Polish Orzel and Sep may not be too far off, given their similarities. I already have an excellent low-poly model to represent those in C21VN, but I will also always take a better one -- especially if it's free.