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Japanese submarine I-158
I-58
Career Naval Ensign of Japan
Name: I-158
Builder: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 3 December 1924, as I-58
Launched: 3 October 1925
Completed: 15 May 1928
Renamed: 20 May 1942, as I-158
Fate: Scuttled in 1946
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: Kaidai-class submarine (Type IIIA)
Displacement: 1,833 long tons (1,862 t) surfaced
2,602 long tons (2,644 t) submerged
Length: 330 ft (100 m)
Beam: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Draught: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion: 2 × diesel engines, 6,800 hp (5.1 MW)
Electric motors, 1,800 hp (1.3 MW)
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) (surfaced)
8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (submerged)
Range: 10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced)
Test depth: 60 m (200 ft)
Complement: 60 officers and men
Armament: 6 × 533 mm (21 in) forward torpedo tubes
2 × 533 mm (21 in) aft torpedo tubes
1 × 12 cm (4.7 in)/50 cal. deck gun

I-158 was a Kaidai-class submarine (KD3 Type) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.[2]

Fate[]

Decommissioned on 30 November 1945, sunk as a target off the Gotō Islands on 1 April 1946.

References[]

  1. "Type KD3". combinedfleet.com. 2012. http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_kd3.htm. Retrieved 1 March 2012. 
  2. Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander (2012). "IJN Submarine I-158: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-158.htm. Retrieved 1 March2012. 


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