Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine I-202
Service
- as I-202? — 5 April 19462,193 days of the war
I-201-class submarine submarine
Particulars
- Name
- I-202
- Builder
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Laid down
- 1 May 1944
- Launched
- 2 September 1944
- Fate
- Sunk by US Navy off Gotō Islands on 5 April 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,290 long tons (1,311 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,450 long tons (1,473 t)
- Length
- 79 m (259.2 ft) OA
- Beam
- 5.8 m (19 ft)
- Speed
- 15.8 knots (29.2 km/h, 18.1 mph)
- Range
- 15,000 nmi (27,780 km)
- Complement
- 31
- Main gun
- 25 mm (1 in)
I-202 was a I-201-class submarine submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal on 1 May 1944. She was launched on 2 September 1944.
Her class ran to three ships. The class followed the I-400-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,290 long tons surfaced and 1,450 long tons submerged. She measured 79 m (259 ft) long with a beam of 5.8 m (19 ft). Her designed speed was 15.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 31. Her main battery was of 25 mm (1.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 5 April 1946. 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 × Mitsubishi Model 1 diesels, 2750 hp
- 4 × electric motors, 5000 hp at 600 rpm
- Twin propellers
- Armament
- 4 × 533 mm bow torpedo tubes
- 10 × Type 95 torpedoes
- 2 × Type 96 25 mm cannon
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-202 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons