Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine Ro-50
Service
- as Submarine No. 39131 July 1944 — September 1945401 days of the war
Kaichū type submarine (K6 subclass)
Particulars
- Name
- Ro-50
- Builder
- Mitsui Zosensho, Tamano, Japan
- Laid down
- 18 February 1943
- Launched
- 27 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 31 July 1944
- Fate
- Surrendered September 1945
Stricken 30 November 1945
Scuttled 1 April 1946 (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,115 long tons (1,133 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,447 long tons (1,470 t)
- Length
- 80.5 m (264.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Draught
- 4.07 m (13.4 ft)
- Speed
- 19.8 knots (36.6 km/h, 22.7 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Ro-50 was a submarine of the Kaichū type submarine (K6 subclass) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsui Zosensho, Tamano, Japan on 18 February 1943. Launched on 27 November 1943, she entered service on 31 July 1944.
The boat displaced 1,115 long tons surfaced and 1,447 long tons submerged. She measured 80.5 m (264 ft) long with a beam of 7 m (23 ft). Her designed speed was 19.8 knots.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 4,200 bhp.
She was in commission for 401 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled in September 1945, at 8°01′N 136°37′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
- 1 × diesel engine
- 1 × electric motor
- Power
- 4200 bhp (diesel)
- 1200 hp (electric motor)
- Armament
- 4 × bow 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 76.2 mm L/40 anti-aircraft gun
- 2 × single 25 mm AA guns
Sister ships
- Japanese submarine Ro-31
- Japanese submarine Ro-33
- Japanese submarine Ro-34
- Japanese submarine Ro-35
- Japanese submarine Ro-36
- Japanese submarine Ro-37
- Japanese submarine Ro-38
- Japanese submarine Ro-39
- Japanese submarine Ro-40
- Japanese submarine Ro-41
- Japanese submarine Ro-42
- Japanese submarine Ro-43
- Japanese submarine Ro-44
- Japanese submarine Ro-45
- Japanese submarine Ro-46
- Japanese submarine Ro-47
- Japanese submarine Ro-48
- Japanese submarine Ro-49
- Japanese submarine Ro-55 (1944)
- Japanese submarine Ro-56 (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Ro-50 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — 写真日本の軍艦第12巻p218 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons