Japanese submarine I-172
KD6 Type, Kadai type submarine
Service
- as I-727 January 1937 — 15 December 19421,201 days of the war
- Name
- I-172
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Kobe Yard, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 16 December 1933
- Launched
- 6 April 1935
- Commissioned
- 7 January 1937
- Struck
- 15 December 1942
- Fate
- Sunk October–November 1942 (see text) (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,440 long tons (2,479 t)
- Length
- 98.15 m (322 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 14,000 nmi (25,928 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
I-172 was a KD6 Type, Kadai type submarine built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi Kobe Yard, Kobe, Japan on 16 December 1933. Launched on 6 April 1935, she entered service on 7 January 1937.
The boat displaced 2,440 long tons submerged. She measured 98.2 m (322 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 60.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,201 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 December 1942.
She was sunk in November 1942, at 16°45′N 156°00′W. 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
- Twin shaft Kampon 9000 bhp/two stroke diesels
- Armament
- 6 x torpedo tubes/14 21 in torpedoes
- 1 x 100 mm AA gun
- 1 × 13.2 mm AA gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-172 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Twitter — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons