Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine Ha-101
Service
- as Small Supply Submarine No. 460122 November 1944 — 2 September 1945284 days of the war
Ha-101-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Ha-101
- Builder
- Kawasaki, Senshu and Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 8 June 1944
- Launched
- 22 August 1944
- Commissioned
- 22 November 1944
- Fate
- Surrendered 2 September 1945
Stricken 15 September 1945
Scrapped or scuttled October 1945 (see text) (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 429 long tons (436 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 493 long tons (501 t)
- Length
- 44.5 m (146 ft)
- Beam
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Draught
- 4.04 m (13.3 ft)
- Speed
- 10 knots (18.5 km/h, 11.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,000 nmi (5,556 km)
- Complement
- 22
- Main gun
- 25 mm (1 in)
Ha-101 was a Ha-101-class submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki, Senshu and Kobe, Japan on 8 June 1944. Launched on 22 August 1944, she entered service on 22 November 1944.
Her class ran to ten ships.
The boat displaced 429 long tons surfaced and 493 long tons submerged. She measured 44.5 m (146 ft) long with a beam of 6.1 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 10 knots, and she carried a complement of 22.
Her main battery was one 25 mm (1.0 in) guns. Her machinery developed 400 bhp.
She was in commission for 284 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 2 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
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric
- 1 × diesel engines
- 1 × electric motor
- Power
- 400 bhp (diesels)
- 150 hp (electric motor)
- Armament
- 1 × single 25 mm Type 96 anti-aircraft gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Ha-101 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: United States Navy — ベストセラーズ刊『写真日本海軍全艦艇史』 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons