Japanese submarine Ro-67
Type L4 (Ro-60-class) submarine
- Length
- 78.39 m (257.2 ft)
- Beam
- 7.41 m (24.3 ft)
- Speed
- 15.7 knots (29.1 km/h, 18.1 mph)
- Complement
- 48
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Service
- as Ro-6715 December 1926 — 20 July 19452,149 days of the war
- Name
- Ro-67
- Builder
- Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 5 March 1925
- Launched
- 18 March 1926
- Commissioned
- 15 December 1926
- Decommissioned
- 21 February 1934
- Recommissioned
- 16 July 1934
- Struck
- 20 July 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,301 long tons (1,322 t)
- Length
- 78.39 m (257.2 ft)
- Beam
- 7.41 m (24.3 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 15.7 knots (29.1 km/h, 18.1 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 48
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Ro-67 was a Type L4 (Ro-60-class) submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan laid her keel on 5 March 1925. Launched on 18 March 1926, she entered service on 15 December 1926.
The boat displaced 1,301 long tons submerged. She measured 78.4 m (257 ft) long with a beam of 7.4 m (24 ft). Her designed speed was 15.7 knots, and she carried a complement of 48.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,149 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 21 February 1934. She recommissioned on 16 July 1934. She was struck from the register on 20 July 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × Vickers diesels, 2 shafts
- 2,400 bhp (surfaced), 1,600 (submerged)
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (6 × bow)
- 12 × 6th Year Type torpedoes
- 1 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 naval gun
- 1 × 6.5 mm machine gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Ro-67 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.