Japanese submarine Ro-59
- Displacement
- 889 long tons (903 t)
- Length
- 72.89 m (239.1 ft)
- Beam
- 7.16 m (23.5 ft)
- Speed
- 17.1 knots (31.7 km/h, 19.7 mph)
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Service
- as Submarine No. 5720 March 1923 — 1 May 19452,069 days of the war
- Name
- Ro-59
- Builder
- Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 18 May 1921
- Launched
- 28 June 1922
- Commissioned
- 20 March 1923
- Decommissioned
- 1 November 1938
- Recommissioned
- 1 June 1939
- 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-59 was a submarine of the Japanese Type L submarine (L3 subclass) of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan on 18 May 1921. Launched on 28 June 1922, she entered service on 20 March 1923.
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 November 1938. She recommissioned on 1 June 1939. 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-59 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.