Japanese submarine I-158 | |
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Career | |
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[]
- ↑ "Type KD3". combinedfleet.com. 2012. http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_kd3.htm. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- ↑ 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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