Japanese submarine I-156
Service
- as I-56? — 2 September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- I-156
- Builder
- Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan
- Laid down
- 3 November 1926
- Launched
- 23 March 1928
- Decommissioned
- 7 January 1937
- Recommissioned
- 1 December 1937
- Fate
- Surrendered 2 September 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Scuttled 1 April 1946 (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,300 long tons (2,337 t)
- Length
- 101 m (331.4 ft)
- Beam
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Draught
- 4.9 m (16.1 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
I-156 was a submarine of the Kaidai-class submarine (KD3B Type) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan on 3 November 1926. She was launched on 23 March 1928.
Her class ran to 20 ships.
The boat displaced 1,800 long tons surfaced and 2,300 long tons submerged. She measured 101 m (331 ft) long with a beam of 8 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 60.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 6,800 bhp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 7 January 1937. She recommissioned on 1 December 1937.
She was scuttled on 2 September 1945, at 5°08′N 104°32′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
- Diesel-electric
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- Power
- 6800 bhp (diesels)
- 1800 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern)
- 1 × 120 mm deck gun
- 2 x kaiten (added April 1945)
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine I-152
- Japanese submarine I-153
- Japanese submarine I-154
- Japanese submarine I-155
- Japanese submarine I-157
- Japanese submarine I-158
- Japanese submarine I-159
- Japanese submarine I-165
- Japanese submarine I-166
- Japanese submarine I-52 (1923)
- Japanese submarine I-53 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-54 (1926)
- Japanese submarine I-55 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-57
- Japanese submarine I-58 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-59
- Japanese submarine I-60
- Japanese submarine I-65
- Japanese submarine I-66
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-156 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: The Navy Association of Japan — The Japanese book "軍艦写真帖" (pictures of warships) a revised edition — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons