Japanese submarine I-53 (1925)
Service
- as Submarine No. 6430 March 1927 — 31 January 19441,610 days of the war
- Name
- I-53
- Pennant / hull number
- 1925
- Builder
- Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan
- Laid down
- 1 April 1924
- Launched
- 5 August 1925
- Commissioned
- 30 March 1927
- Fate
- Hulked 31 January 1944
Surrendered 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Scuttled 8 May 1946 or scrapped 1948 (see text) (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,300 long tons (2,337 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft)
- Beam
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Draught
- 4.82 m (15.8 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
I-53 was a submarine of the Kaidai-class submarine (KD3A Type) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1925. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan on 1 April 1924. Launched on 5 August 1925, she entered service on 30 March 1927.
20 ships of the class were built.
The boat displaced 1,800 long tons surfaced and 2,300 long tons submerged. She measured 100 m (328 ft) long with a beam of 8 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 60.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. 6,800 bhp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,610 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 31 January 1944, at 8°16′S 108°52′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 shafts; Diesel-electric
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- Power
- 6800 bhp (diesels)
- 1800 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern)
- 1 × 120 mm deck gun
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine I-152
- Japanese submarine I-153
- Japanese submarine I-154
- Japanese submarine I-155
- Japanese submarine I-156
- Japanese submarine I-157
- Japanese submarine I-158
- Japanese submarine I-159
- Japanese submarine I-165
- Japanese submarine I-166
- Japanese submarine I-52 (1923)
- Japanese submarine I-54 (1926)
- Japanese submarine I-55 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-57
- Japanese submarine I-58 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-59
- Japanese submarine I-60
- Japanese submarine I-65
- Japanese submarine I-66
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-53 (1925) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Imperial Japanese navy photograph archive — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons