Japanese submarine I-175
Kaidai type (KD6B Type)
Service
- as I-758 December 1938 — 10 July 19441,774 days of the war
- Name
- I-175
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe, Japan
- Ordered
- 1934
- Laid down
- 1 November 1934
- Launched
- 16 September 1937
- Commissioned
- 8 December 1938
- Struck
- 10 July 1944
- Fate
- Sunk 4 February 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,810 long tons (1,839 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,564 long tons (2,605 t)
- Length
- 105 m (344.5 ft)
- Beam
- 8.2 m (26.9 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 70
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
I-175 was a submarine of the Kaidai type (KD6B Type), operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe, Japan laid her keel on 1 November 1934. She entered service on 8 December 1938, having been launched on 16 September 1937.
The boat displaced 1,810 long tons surfaced and 2,564 long tons submerged. She measured 105 m (344 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 70.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 9,000 bhp.
She was in commission for 1,774 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 July 1944.
She was sunk on 4 February 1944, at 17°46′N 157°03′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
- Diesel-electric
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- Power
- 9000 bhp (diesels)
- 1800 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
- 1 × 120 mm deck gun
- 2 × single 13.2 mm anti-aircraft machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-175 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — 写真日本の軍艦第12巻p91 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons