Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine I-29
Service
- as I-2927 February 1942 — 26 July 1944880 days of the war
Type B1 submarine
Particulars
- Name
- I-29
- Builder
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Launched
- 29 September 1940
- Commissioned
- 27 February 1942
- Fate
- Sunk, 26 July 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,584 long tons (2,625 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 3,654 long tons (3,713 t)
- Length
- 108.5 m (356 ft)
- Beam
- 9.3 m (30.5 ft)
- Draught
- 5.12 m (16.8 ft)
- Range
- 14,000 nmi (25,928 km)
- Complement
- 101
I-29 was a Type B1 submarine, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. Launched on 29 September 1940, she entered service on 27 February 1942.
The class followed the Type J3 submarine and was succeeded by the Type B2 submarine.
The boat displaced 3,654 long tons submerged. She measured 108.5 m (356 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). She carried a complement of 101.
Her main battery was six 533 mm (21.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 880 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 26 July 1944, at 43°40′N 5°51′W. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2-shaft diesel (12400 hp) and electric motor (2000 hp)
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes forward (17 torpedoes) + 1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun
- Aircraft
- one Yokosuka E14Y "Glen"'Type 0' reconnaissance seaplane
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine I-15
- Japanese submarine I-17
- Japanese submarine I-19
- Japanese submarine I-21
- Japanese submarine I-23
- Japanese submarine I-26
- Japanese submarine I-27
- Japanese submarine I-28
- Japanese submarine I-30
- Japanese submarine I-31
- Japanese submarine I-32
- Japanese submarine I-33
- Japanese submarine I-34
- Japanese submarine I-35
- Japanese submarine I-36
- Japanese submarine I-37
- Japanese submarine I-38
- Japanese submarine I-39
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-29 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Imperial Japanese Navy Photograph Archive — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons