Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine I-178
Kaidai type, KD7-class
Service
- as I-17826 December 1942 — 17 June 1943173 days of the war
Kaidai type, KD7-class
Particulars
- Name
- I-178
- Builder
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1939
- Laid down
- 21 May 1941
- Launched
- 24 February 1942
- Commissioned
- 26 December 1942
- Fate
- Missing after June 17, 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,833 long tons (1,862 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,602 long tons (2,644 t)
- Length
- 105.5 m (346.1 ft)
- Beam
- 8.25 m (27.1 ft)
- Draught
- 4.6 m (15.1 ft)
- Speed
- 23.1 knots (42.8 km/h, 26.6 mph)
- Range
- 8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
- Complement
- 86
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
I-178 was a submarine of the Kaidai type, KD7-class built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal on 21 May 1941. Launched on 24 February 1942, she entered service on 26 December 1942.
The boat displaced 1,833 long tons surfaced and 2,602 long tons submerged. She measured 105.5 m (346 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 23.1 knots, and she carried a complement of 86.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns.
She was in commission for 173 days of the Second World War.
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 × Kampon Mk.1B Model 8 diesels, 2 shafts; 8,000 bhp
- Electric motors: 1,800 shp
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm forward torpedo tubes
- 12 × Type 95 torpedoes
- 1 × 120 mm 11th Year Type Naval gun
- 2 × Type 96 25mm AA guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-178 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Stille, Mark; Bryan, Tony (2007). Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45. Osprey Publishing. p. 18. ISBN 1846030900 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons