Japanese submarine I-4
Service
- as I-424 December 1929 — 1 March 19431,277 days of the war
- Name
- I-4
- Builder
- Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 17 April 1926
- Launched
- 22 May 1928
- Commissioned
- 24 December 1929
- Decommissioned
- 15 November 1935
- Recommissioned
- 27 March 1937
- Struck
- 1 March 1943
- Fate
- Sunk 21 December 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 2,135 long tons (2,169 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,791 long tons (2,836 t)
- Length
- 97.54 m (320 ft)
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 5.03 m (16.5 ft)
- Range
- 24,400 nmi (45,189 km)
- Complement
- 68
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
I-4 was a J1 type submarine, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan laid her keel on 17 April 1926. She entered service on 24 December 1929, having been launched on 22 May 1928.
The Type J1M submarine followed.
The boat displaced 2,135 long tons surfaced and 2,791 long tons submerged. She measured 97.5 m (320 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). She carried a complement of 68. Her main battery was of 140 mm (5.5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,277 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 November 1935. She recommissioned on 27 March 1937. She was struck from the register on 1 March 1943.
She was sunk on 21 December 1942, at 7°00′N 79°00′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
- Twin-shaft MAN 10-cylinder 4-stroke diesel engines; 6000 bhp
- Two electric motors; 2600 hp
- Armament
- two 140mm/40 caliber (5.5-in) deck guns (one each fore and aft); after gun removed November 1942
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 20 × Type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-4 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Imperial Japanese Navy Photograph Archive — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons