Japanese submarine I-30

Type B1 submarine Particulars

Name: I-30
Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 7 June 1939
Launched: 17 September 1940
Fate: Sunk by mine, 13 October 1942, later salvaged and scrapped, 1959-1960 (1942)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 2,584 long tons (2,625 t)
Displacement, submerged: 3,654 long tons (3,713 t)
Length: 108.9 m (357.3 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-30 was a Type B1 submarine. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal on 7 June 1939. She was launched on 17 September 1940.

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 108.9 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 broken up for scrap on 13 October 1942.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 × Diesel engines, 12400 hp
Electric motors, 2000 hp
Armament: 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
17 × torpedoes
1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun
Aircraft: 1 × Yokosuka E14Y floatplane

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-30 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Unknown author — U-Boat.net — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons