Japanese submarine I-2
Service
- as Submarine cruiser No. 7524 July 1926 — 10 June 19441,744 days of the war
- Name
- I-2
- Builder
- Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 6 August 1923
- Launched
- 23 February 1925
- Commissioned
- 24 July 1926
- Decommissioned
- 15 November 1929
- Recommissioned
- 15 November 1930
- Struck
- 10 June 1944
- Fate
- Sunk 7 April 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 2,135 long tons (2,169 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,791 long tons (2,836 t)
- Length
- 97.54 m (320 ft)
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 5.03 m (16.5 ft)
- Range
- 24,400 nmi (45,189 km)
- Complement
- 68
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
I-2 was a J1 type submarine. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan on 6 August 1923. She entered service on 24 July 1926, having been launched on 23 February 1925.
The Type J1M submarine followed.
The boat displaced 2,135 long tons surfaced and 2,791 long tons submerged. She measured 97.5 m (320 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). She carried a complement of 68. Her main battery was of 140 mm (5.5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,744 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 November 1929. She recommissioned on 15 November 1930. She was struck from the register on 10 June 1944.
She was sunk on 7 April 1944, at 0°23′S 95°41′E. 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 MAN 10 cylinder
- 4 stroke diesels giving 6000 bhp
- two electric motors of 2600 ehp
- Armament
- two 140mm/40 caliber deck guns (one each fore and aft)
- (in January 1943 the after gun was replaced with a 46 foot Daihatsu barge)
- 6 × 533mm torpedo tubes
- 20 × Type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-2 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Imperial Japanese Navy Photograph Archive — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons