Submarine class
Type 3 submergence transport vehicle
The class in numbers
- 420 Planned
- 38 Completed
- 4 Lost
- 34 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Built
- 1943–45
- In commission
- 1943–45
- Operators
- Imperial Japanese Army
- Builders
- Hitachi
- Japan Steel Works
- Andō Iron Works
- Chōsen Machinery
- Subclasses
- Yu I type, Yu 1 (Hitachi Ltd.), Yu 1001 (Japan Steel Works), Yu 2001 (Andō Iron Works), Yu 3001 (Chōsen Machinery), Yu II type, Ushio (Prototype, Hitachi Ltd.)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Yu I type
- Displacement, surfaced
- 274 long tons (278 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 346 long tons (352 t)
- Length
- 41.4 m (135.8 ft) OA
- Speed
- 10 knots (18.5 km/h, 11.5 mph)
- Complement
- 23
- Main gun
- 37 mm (1.5 in)
- Armament
- Yu 1, Yu 2 and Yu 3
- 1 × Type 4 37 mm shipboard gun
- 5 × Type 99 light machine guns
- Yu 1001
- 1 × Type 4 37 mm shipboard gun
- 2 × IJN Type 92 13 mm AA guns
- Yu 2001
- 1 × Type 4 37 mm shipboard gun
Yu II type
- Displacement, surfaced
- 430 long tons (437 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 540 long tons (549 t)
- Length
- 55 m (180.4 ft) OA
- Speed
- 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h, 16.7 mph)
- Main gun
- 47 mm (1.9 in)
- Armament
- 1 × Type 1 47 mm AT gun
- 5 × Type 98 20 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type 3 submergence transport vehicle on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.