Japanese submarine I-17
Service
- as I-1724 January 1941 — 1 December 19431,041 days of the war
- Name
- I-17
- Builder
- Yokosuka Navy Yard
- Laid down
- 18 April 1938
- Launched
- 19 July 1939
- Commissioned
- 24 January 1941
- Struck
- 1 December 1943
- Fate
- Sunk on 19 August 1943 by HMNZS Tui (T234) and US Kingfisher float-planes
By aircraft (1943) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 2,584 long tons (2,625 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 3,654 long tons (3,713 t)
- Length
- 108.7 m (356.6 ft)
- Beam
- 9.3 m (30.5 ft)
- Draught
- 5.14 m (16.9 ft)
- Speed
- 23.5 knots (43.5 km/h, 27 mph)
- Range
- 14,000 nmi (25,928 km)
- Complement
- 94
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
I-17 was a Type B1 submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yokosuka Navy Yard laid her keel on 18 April 1938. Launched on 19 July 1939, she entered service on 24 January 1941.
The class followed the Type J3 submarine and was succeeded by the Type B2 submarine.
The boat displaced 2,584 long tons surfaced and 3,654 long tons submerged. She measured 108.7 m (357 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 23.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 94.
Her main battery was one 140 mm (5.5 in) guns. She carried one aircraft.
She was in commission for 1,041 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1943.
She was sunk on 19 August 1943 by aircraft, at 23°45′S 166°30′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
- 2 diesels: 12400 hp
- Electric motors: 2000 hp
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm forward torpedo tubes
- 17 torpedoes
- 1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun (removed November 1942)
- Aircraft
- 1 Yokosuka E14Y seaplane
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine I-15
- Japanese submarine I-19
- Japanese submarine I-21
- Japanese submarine I-23
- Japanese submarine I-26
- Japanese submarine I-27
- Japanese submarine I-28
- Japanese submarine I-29
- Japanese submarine I-30
- Japanese submarine I-31
- Japanese submarine I-32
- Japanese submarine I-33
- Japanese submarine I-34
- Japanese submarine I-35
- Japanese submarine I-36
- Japanese submarine I-37
- Japanese submarine I-38
- Japanese submarine I-39
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-17 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Imperial Japanese Navy Photograph Archive — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons