Japanese submarine I-38
Service
- as Submarine No. 15131 January 1943 — 10 March 1945772 days of the war
- Name
- I-38
- Builder
- Sasebo Navy Yard, Sasebo, Japan
- Laid down
- 19 June 1941
- Launched
- 15 April 1942
- Commissioned
- 31 January 1943
- Struck
- 10 March 1945
- Fate
- Missing after 7 November 1944
Probably sunk 13 November 1944 (1944) - Status
- Wreck
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-38 was a Type B1 submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Sasebo Navy Yard, Sasebo, Japan on 19 June 1941. Launched on 15 April 1942, she entered service on 31 January 1943.
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 772 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 March 1945.
She was sunk on 7 November 1944, at 8°00′S 158°05′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 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-33
- Japanese submarine I-34
- Japanese submarine I-35
- Japanese submarine I-36
- Japanese submarine I-37
- Japanese submarine I-39
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-38 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Shizuo Fukui — Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Submarines — CC0 — Wikimedia Commons