Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine class
J1 type submarine
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Succeeded by
- Type J1M submarine
- Operators
- Imperial Japanese Navy
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,135 long tons (2,169 t)
- Length
- 97.54 m (320 ft)
- Complement
- 68
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
- Armament
- two 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval guns fore and aft
- 8 × 533mm torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft)
- 20 × type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese submarine I-1 | 1926 | Wrecked 1943 | |
| Japanese submarine I-2 | 1926 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese submarine I-3 | 1926 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Japanese submarine I-4 | 1929 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from J1 type submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.