Japanese submarine I-361
Type D1 submarine
Service
- as Submarine No. 546125 May 1944 — 10 August 1945442 days of the war
- Name
- I-361
- Builder
- Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan
- Laid down
- 16 February 1943
- Launched
- 30 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 25 May 1944
- Struck
- 10 August 1945
- Fate
- Sunk 31 May 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,440 long tons (1,463 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,215 long tons (2,251 t)
- Length
- 73.5 m (241.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.9 m (29.2 ft)
- Draught
- 4.76 m (15.6 ft)
- Speed
- 13 knots (24.1 km/h, 15 mph)
- Range
- 15,000 nmi (27,780 km)
- Complement
- 55
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
I-361 was a Type D1 submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan on 16 February 1943. She entered service on 25 May 1944, having been launched on 30 October 1943.
The boat displaced 1,440 long tons surfaced and 2,215 long tons submerged. She measured 73.5 m (241 ft) long with a beam of 8.9 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 13 knots, and she carried a complement of 55.
Her main battery was one 140 mm (5.5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 442 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 August 1945.
She was sunk on 31 May 1945, at 20°22′N 134°09′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
- 2 × Kampon Mk.23B Model 8 diesels
- 1,850 bhp surfaced
- 1,200 shp submerged
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 2 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × Type 95 torpedoes
- 1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun (removed February–May 1945)
- 2 × Type 96 25mm AA guns
- 5 x kaiten suicide attack torpedoes (added February–May 1945)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-361 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Imperial Japanese Navy — The Maru Special No.110 Submarine Operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons