Japanese submarine I-52 (1923)
Service
- as Submarine No. 5120 May 1925 — 1 August 19421,065 days of the war
- Name
- I-52
- Pennant / hull number
- 1923
- Builder
- Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan
- Ordered
- 1919
- Laid down
- 14 February 1922
- Launched
- 12 June 1923
- Commissioned
- 20 May 1925
- Decommissioned
- 14 July 1942
- Struck
- 1 August 1942
- Fate
- Hulked 1 August 1942
Scrapped 1946-1948 (1942) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,500 long tons (1,524 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,500 long tons (2,540 t)
- Length
- 100.85 m (330.9 ft)
- Beam
- 7.64 m (25.1 ft)
- Draught
- 5.14 m (16.9 ft)
- Speed
- 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h, 24.7 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 58
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
I-52 was a submarine of the Kaidai-class submarine (Type II) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1923. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan on 14 February 1922. She entered service on 20 May 1925, having been launched on 12 June 1923.
20 ships of the class were built.
The boat displaced 1,500 long tons surfaced and 2,500 long tons submerged. She measured 100.8 m (331 ft) long with a beam of 7.6 m (25 ft). Her designed speed was 21.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 58.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,065 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 July 1942. She was struck from the register on 1 August 1942.
She was broken up for scrap on 1 August 1942.
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 × Sulzer diesel engines, 6800 hp
- 2 x Electric motors, 2000 hp
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm forward torpedo tubes
- 2 × 533 mm aft torpedo tubes
- 1 x 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun
- 16 × naval mines
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine I-152
- Japanese submarine I-153
- Japanese submarine I-154
- Japanese submarine I-155
- Japanese submarine I-156
- Japanese submarine I-157
- Japanese submarine I-158
- Japanese submarine I-159
- Japanese submarine I-165
- Japanese submarine I-166
- Japanese submarine I-53 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-54 (1926)
- Japanese submarine I-55 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-57
- Japanese submarine I-58 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-59
- Japanese submarine I-60
- Japanese submarine I-65
- Japanese submarine I-66
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-52 (1923) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: The Navy Association of Japan — The Japanese book "軍艦写真帖" (pictures of warships) a revised edition — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons