Japanese submarine I-71
KD6 Type, Kadai type submarine
Service
- as I-7124 December 1935 — 30 April 19441,701 days of the war
- Name
- I-71
- Builder
- Kawasaki Kobe Yard, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 15 February 1933
- Launched
- 15 August 1934
- Commissioned
- 24 December 1935
- Struck
- 30 April 1944
- Fate
- Sunk 1 February 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-71 was a KD6 Type, Kadai type submarine, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki Kobe Yard, Kobe, Japan on 15 February 1933. Launched on 15 August 1934, she entered service on 24 December 1935.
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 1,701 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 30 April 1944.
She was sunk on 1 February 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-71 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Imperial Japanese navy photograph archive — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons