Japanese submarine I-367

Type D1 submarine

Service

Imperial Japanese Navy as Submarine No. 546715 August 1944 — September 1945383 days of the war

Type D1 submarine Particulars

Name: I-367
Builder: Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan
Laid down: 22 October 1943
Launched: 28 April 1944
Commissioned: 15 August 1944
Fate: Surrendered September 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Scuttled 1 April 1946 (1945)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 1,440 long tons (1,463 t)
Displacement, submerged: 2,215 long tons (2,251 t)
Length: 73.5 m (241.1 ft) OA
Beam: 8.9 m (29.2 ft)
Draught: 4.76 m (15.6 ft)
Speed: 13 knots (24.1 km/h, 15 mph)
Range: 15,000 nmi (27,780 km)
Complement: 55
Main gun: 140 mm (5.5 in)

I-367 was a Type D1 submarine, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan on 22 October 1943. She entered service on 15 August 1944, having been launched on 28 April 1944.

The boat displaced 1,440 long tons surfaced and 2,215 long tons submerged. She measured 73.5 m (241 ft) long with a beam of 8.9 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 13 knots, and she carried a complement of 55.

Her main battery was one 140 mm (5.5 in) guns.

She was in commission for 383 days of the Second World War.

She was scuttled in September 1945. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 × Kampon Mk.23B Model 8 diesels
1,850 bhp surfaced
1,200 shp submerged
2 shafts
Armament: 2 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
2 × Type 95 torpedoes
1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun (removed January–April 1945)
2 × Type 96 25mm AA guns
5 x Kaiten suicide attack torpedoes (added January–April 1945)

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-367 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Imperial Japanese Navy — The Maru Special No.43 Japanese submarines III — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons