Japanese submarine I-69
KD6 Type, Kadai type submarine
Service
- as I-6928 September 1935 — 10 June 19441,744 days of the war
- Name
- I-69
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Kobe Yard, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 22 December 1931
- Launched
- 15 February 1934
- Commissioned
- 28 September 1935
- Decommissioned
- 15 December 1938
- Recommissioned
- 1 September 1939
- Struck
- 10 June 1944
- Fate
- Sank 4 April 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,440 long tons (2,479 t)
- Length
- 98.15 m (322 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 14,000 nmi (25,928 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
I-69 was a KD6 Type, Kadai type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi Kobe Yard, Kobe, Japan on 22 December 1931. She entered service on 28 September 1935, having been launched on 15 February 1934.
The boat displaced 2,440 long tons submerged. She measured 98.2 m (322 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 60.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,744 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 December 1938. She recommissioned on 1 September 1939. She was struck from the register on 10 June 1944.
She was sunk on 4 April 1944, at 20°00′N 166°20′W. 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 Kampon 9000 bhp/two stroke diesels
- Armament
- 6 x torpedo tubes/14 21 in torpedoes
- 1 x 100 mm AA gun
- 1 × 13.2 mm AA gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-69 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Maru Graphic Japanese Submarines Volume 1 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons