Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine Ha-209
Service
- as Ha-2094 August 1945 — 18 August 194514 days of the war
Ha-201-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Ha-209
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan
- Laid down
- 7 May 1945
- Launched
- 31 May 1945
- Commissioned
- 4 August 1945
- Fate
- Wrecked 18 August 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Salvaged and scrapped August–November 1946 (1945) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 320 long tons (325 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 440 long tons (447 t)
- Length
- 53 m (173.9 ft) OA
- Beam
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Draught
- 3.44 m (11.3 ft)
- Speed
- 11.8 knots (21.9 km/h, 13.6 mph)
- Range
- 3,000 nmi (5,556 km)
- Complement
- 26
Ha-209 was a Ha-201-class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan laid her keel on 7 May 1945. Launched on 31 May 1945, she entered service on 4 August 1945.
Her class ran to ten ships. The class followed the Vessel Number 71.
The boat displaced 320 long tons surfaced and 440 long tons submerged. She measured 53 m (174 ft) long with a beam of 4 m (13 ft). Her designed speed was 11.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 26.
Her main battery was two 533 mm (21.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 14 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 18 August 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 1 × intermediate diesel
- 400 bhp surfaced
- 1,250 shp submerged
- single shaft
- Armament
- 2 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 4 × Type 95 torpedoes
- 1 × 7.7 mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Ha-209 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — 誠文図書『海軍X』 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons