Japanese submarine I-58 (1925)
Service
- as I-5815 May 1928 — 2 September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- I-58
- Pennant / hull number
- 1925
- Builder
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yokosuka, Japan
- Laid down
- 3 December 1924
- Launched
- 3 October 1925
- Commissioned
- 15 May 1928
- Fate
- Surrendered 2 September 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Scuttled 1 April 1946 (1945) - 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-58 was a submarine of the Kaidai-class submarine (KD3A Type) in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1925. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yokosuka, Japan laid her keel on 3 December 1924. She entered service on 15 May 1928, having been launched on 3 October 1925.
Her class ran to 20 ships.
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. Her machinery developed 6,800 bhp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 2 September 1945, at 5°00′S 112°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
- 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-53 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-54 (1926)
- Japanese submarine I-55 (1925)
- Japanese submarine I-57
- Japanese submarine I-59
- Japanese submarine I-60
- Japanese submarine I-65
- Japanese submarine I-66
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-58 (1925) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: The Navy Association of Japan — The Japanese book "軍艦写真帖" (pictures of warships) a revised edition — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons