Japanese submarine Ha-203
Service
- as Submarine No. 491320 June 1945 — 2 September 194574 days of the war
- Name
- Ha-203
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan
- Laid down
- 5 April 1945
- Launched
- 25 May 1945
- Commissioned
- 20 June 1945
- Fate
- Surrendered 2 September 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Scuttled 1 April 1946 (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 320 long tons (325 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 440 long tons (447 t)
- Length
- 53 m (173.9 ft) OA
- Beam
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Draught
- 3.44 m (11.3 ft)
- Speed
- 11.8 knots (21.9 km/h, 13.6 mph)
- Range
- 3,000 nmi (5,556 km)
- Complement
- 26
Ha-203 was a Ha-201-class submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan on 5 April 1945. Launched on 25 May 1945, she entered service on 20 June 1945.
Ten ships of the class were built. The class followed the Vessel Number 71.
The boat displaced 320 long tons surfaced and 440 long tons submerged. She measured 53 m (174 ft) long with a beam of 4 m (13 ft). Her designed speed was 11.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 26.
Her main battery was two 533 mm (21.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 74 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 2 September 1945, at 32°37′N 129°17′E. 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
- 1 × intermediate diesel
- 400 bhp surfaced
- 1,250 shp submerged
- single shaft
- Armament
- 2 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 4 × Type 95 torpedoes
- 1 × 7.7 mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Ha-203 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