Japanese submarine Ro-58
Service
- as Submarine No. 4725 November 1922 — 1 May 19452,069 days of the war
- Name
- Ro-58
- Builder
- Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 15 February 1921
- Launched
- 2 March 1922
- Commissioned
- 25 November 1922
- Decommissioned
- 1 May 1945
- Struck
- 1 May 1945
- Fate
- Hulked 1 May 1945
Scrapped 1946 (1945) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 889 long tons (903 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,103 long tons (1,121 t)
- Length
- 72.89 m (239.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 7.16 m (23.5 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 17.1 knots (31.7 km/h, 19.7 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Ro-58 was a submarine of the Japanese Type L submarine (L3 subclass) of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan laid her keel on 15 February 1921. Launched on 2 March 1922, she entered service on 25 November 1922.
The boat displaced 889 long tons surfaced and 1,103 long tons submerged. She measured 72.9 m (239 ft) long with a beam of 7.2 m (23 ft). Her designed speed was 17.1 knots.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 2,400 bhp.
She was in commission for 2,069 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 May 1945. She was struck from the register on 1 May 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 1 May 1945.
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 × Vickers diesel engines, 75 tons fuel
- 2 × electric motor
- 2 x shafts
- Power
- 2400 bhp (diesel)
- 1600 shp (electric motor)
- Armament
- 4 × bow 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 8 x 6th Year Type torpedoes
- 1 × 76.2 mm gun
- 1 x 6.5 mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Ro-58 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — 写真日本の軍艦第12巻p223 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons