Japanese submarine I-33
Service
- as Submarine No. 14610 June 1942 — 26 September 1942108 days of the war
- Name
- I-33
- Builder
- Mitsubishi
- Laid down
- 21 February 1940
- Launched
- 1 May 1941
- Commissioned
- 10 June 1942
- Fate
- Sank 26 September 1942
Refloated 29 December 1942
Repairs completed 1 June 1944
Sank during post-repair trials 13 June 1944
Stricken 10 August 1944
Refloated July–August 1953
Scrapped (1942) - Status
- Scrapped
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-33 was a Type B1 submarine built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi on 21 February 1940. She entered service on 10 June 1942, having been launched on 1 May 1941.
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 108 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 26 September 1942.
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 seaplane
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine I-15
- Japanese submarine I-17
- Japanese submarine I-19
- 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-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-33 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: 伊久茂視（投稿者がスキャン） — 朝日新聞社「朝日新聞 報道写真傑作集1954」 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons