Japanese submarine I-363

Type D1 submarine

Service

Imperial Japanese Navy as Submarine No. 54638 July 1944 — 2 September 1945421 days of the war

Type D1 submarine Particulars

Name: I-363
Builder: Kure Navy Yard, Kure, Japan
Laid down: 1 May 1943
Launched: 12 December 1943
Commissioned: 8 July 1944
Fate: Surrendered 2 September 1945
Sunk 29 October 1945
Stricken 10 November 1945
Refloated 26 January 1966
Scrapped (1945)
Status: Scrapped

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-363 was a Type D1 submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kure Navy Yard, Kure, Japan on 1 May 1943. She entered service on 8 July 1944, having been launched on 12 December 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 421 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 2 September 1945.

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

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 March–May 1945)
2 × Type 96 25mm AA guns
5 x Kaiten suicide attack torpedoes (added March–May 1945)

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-363 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Imperial Japanese Navy — Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Vol.36 Kairyu and Kaiten — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons