Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine Ha-204
Service
- as Submarine No. 491425 June 1945 — 2 September 194569 days of the war
Ha-201-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Ha-204
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan
- Laid down
- 5 April 1945
- Launched
- 1 June 1945
- Commissioned
- 25 June 1945
- Fate
- Surrendered 2 September 1945
Wrecked 29 October 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Refloated
Scrapped August–October 1948 (1945) - Status
- Scrapped
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-204 was a Ha-201-class submarine built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan laid her keel on 5 April 1945. She entered service on 25 June 1945, having been launched on 1 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 69 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 2 September 1945.
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-204 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Imperial Japanese Navy — ベストセラーズ刊『写真日本海軍全艦艇史』 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons