Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine HA. 19
Service
- as HA. 192,193 days of the war
Type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HA. 19
- Builder
- Kure Naval Dockyard, Kure
- Launched
- 1938
- Fate
- Museum exhibit
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 46 long tons (47 t)
- Length
- 23.9 m (78.4 ft)
- Beam
- 1.8 m (5.9 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 100 nmi (185 km)
HA. 19 was a Type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built by Kure Naval Dockyard, Kure. She was launched in 1938.
She was the only ship of her class. The Kairyū-class submarine followed.
The boat displaced 46 long tons submerged. She measured 23.9 m (78 ft) long with a beam of 1.8 m (6 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots.
Her main battery was two 450 mm (17.7 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She has been preserved.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 1 × electric motor, 600 hp
- 2 × counter-rotating screws
- Armament
- 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedoes, muzzle-loaded into tubes
- 1 × 300 lb scuttling charge
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine HA. 19 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: photographer not identified. US Military. — US Navy Military History Center. Photo # NH 91331 Downloaded from http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h91000/h91331.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons