Japanese submarine I-19
Service
- as I-19? — 1 April 19441,674 days of the war
- Name
- I-19
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe
- Laid down
- 15 March 1938
- Launched
- 16 September 1939
- Struck
- 1 April 1944
- Fate
- Depth charged and sunk 25 November 1943 by USS Radford (DD-446). (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-19 was a Type B1 submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe on 15 March 1938. She was launched on 16 September 1939.
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 1,674 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1944.
She was sunk on 25 November 1943. 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
- Aircraft
- 1 Yokosuka E14Y floatplane
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine I-15
- Japanese submarine I-17
- 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-19 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://luissoravilla.blogspot.fr/2013/02/la-proeza-del-i-19.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons