Japanese submarine I-179
Kaidai type, KD7-class
Service
- as I-179? — 15 April 19441,688 days of the war
- Name
- I-179
- Builder
- Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Kobe
- Laid down
- 21 August 1941
- Launched
- 16 July 1942
- Struck
- 15 April 1944
- Fate
- Sunk during sea trials, 14 July 1943
Salvaged and scrapped, 1957 (1943) - Status
- Scrapped
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 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
- Complement
- 86
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
I-179 was a submarine of the Kaidai type, KD7-class built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Kobe on 21 August 1941. She was launched on 16 July 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 knots, and she carried a complement of 86.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 8,000 bhp.
She was in commission for 1,688 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 April 1944.
She was broken up for scrap on 14 July 1943.
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
- 8000 bhp (diesels)
- 1800 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (all bow)
- 1 × 120 mm deck gun
- 1 × twin 25 mm Type 96 AA gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-179 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — N. Polmar, D. Carpenter. Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1904—1945. — Conway Maritime Press, 1986 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons