Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine Ro-46
Service
- as Submarine No. 38719 February 1944 — 10 June 1945477 days of the war
Kaichū type submarine (K6 subclass)
Particulars
- Name
- Ro-46
- Builder
- Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 13 June 1942
- Launched
- 23 May 1943
- Commissioned
- 19 February 1944
- Struck
- 10 June 1945
- Fate
- Missing after 17 April 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,115 long tons (1,133 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,447 long tons (1,470 t)
- Length
- 80.5 m (264.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Draught
- 4.07 m (13.4 ft)
- Speed
- 19.8 knots (36.6 km/h, 22.7 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Ro-46 was a submarine of the Kaichū type submarine (K6 subclass) in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan on 13 June 1942. She entered service on 19 February 1944, having been launched on 23 May 1943.
The boat displaced 1,115 long tons surfaced and 1,447 long tons submerged. She measured 80.5 m (264 ft) long with a beam of 7 m (23 ft). Her designed speed was 19.8 knots.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 4,200 bhp.
She was in commission for 477 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 June 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
- Diesel-electric
- 1 × diesel engine
- 1 × electric motor
- Power
- 4200 bhp (diesel)
- 1200 hp (electric motor)
- Armament
- 4 × bow 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 76.2 mm L/40 anti-aircraft gun
- 2 × single 25 mm AA guns
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine Ro-31
- Japanese submarine Ro-33
- Japanese submarine Ro-34
- Japanese submarine Ro-35
- Japanese submarine Ro-36
- Japanese submarine Ro-37
- Japanese submarine Ro-38
- Japanese submarine Ro-39
- Japanese submarine Ro-40
- Japanese submarine Ro-41
- Japanese submarine Ro-42
- Japanese submarine Ro-43
- Japanese submarine Ro-44
- Japanese submarine Ro-45
- Japanese submarine Ro-47
- Japanese submarine Ro-48
- Japanese submarine Ro-49
- Japanese submarine Ro-50
- Japanese submarine Ro-55 (1944)
- Japanese submarine Ro-56 (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Ro-46 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Twitter — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons