title: HNLMS O 3
text: # HNLMS O 3
  
  O 3 was a O 2 class patrol submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built by De Schelde shipyard in Flushing.
  
  ## Service history
  
  The submarine was ordered on 18 March 1910 and 31 December that year the O 3 was laid down in Flushing at the shipyard of De Schelde. The launch took place on 30 July 1912; later in the autumn that year trials were held.
  
  Commissioning in the navy is delayed by a battery explosion during the trials on 1 November 1912. On 11 February 1913, the ship was finally commissioned. During World War I the ship was based in Flushing.
  
  The Dutch queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands makes a visit to the ship in Den Helder on 13 September 1914. The visit includes a dive off the coast of Den Helder.
  
  In 1932 the O 3 was decommissioned.
  
  