Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine I-25
B1 Type submarine
Service
- as I-2515 October 1941 — 3 September 1943688 days of the war
B1 Type submarine
Particulars
- Name
- I-25
- Builder
- Mitsubishi
- Laid down
- 3 February 1939
- Launched
- 8 June 1940
- Commissioned
- 15 October 1941
- Fate
- Sunk by one or more US destroyers on 3 September 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 2,307 long tons (2,344 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 3,263 long tons (3,315 t)
- Length
- 108.7 m (356.6 ft)
- Beam
- 9.3 m (30.5 ft)
- Draught
- 5.1 m (16.7 ft)
- Range
- 14,000 nmi (25,928 km)
- Complement
- 94
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
I-25 was a B1 Type submarine built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi laid her keel on 3 February 1939. She entered service on 15 October 1941, having been launched on 8 June 1940.
The boat displaced 2,307 long tons surfaced and 3,263 long tons submerged. She measured 108.7 m (357 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). 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 688 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 3 September 1943, at 42°22′N 125°12′W. 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: 9246 kW
- Electric motors: 1491 kW
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm (21 in) forward torpedo tubes
- 17 torpedoes
- 1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun
- Aircraft
- 1 × Yokosuka E14Y observation seaplane
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-25 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Imperial Japanese Navy Photograph archive — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons