Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine Yu 1
Service
- as Yu 131 December 1943 — 2 January 1945371 days of the war
Japanese submarine Yu 1
Particulars
- Name
- Yu 1
- Builder
- Hitachi Kasado Works, Kudamatsu, Japan
- Laid down
- 23 June 1943
- Launched
- 29 October 1943
- Fate
- Sunk 2 January 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 274 long tons (278 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 346 long tons (352 t)
- Length
- 41.4 m (135.8 ft) OA
- Beam
- 3.9 m (12.8 ft)
- Draught
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Speed
- 10 knots (18.5 km/h, 11.5 mph)
- Range
- 1,500 nmi (2,778 km)
- Complement
- 23
- Main gun
- 37 mm (1.5 in)
Yu 1 was a submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Hitachi Kasado Works, Kudamatsu, Japan laid her keel on 23 June 1943. She was launched on 29 October 1943.
The boat displaced 274 long tons surfaced and 346 long tons submerged. She measured 41.4 m (136 ft) long with a beam of 3.9 m (13 ft). Her designed speed was 10 knots, and she carried a complement of 23. Her main battery was of 37 mm (1.5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 371 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 2 January 1945. 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
- 2 × Hesselman engines
- 400 bhp surfaced
- 75 shp submerged
- single shaft
- Armament
- 1 × Type 4 37 mm shipboard gun
- 5 × Type 99 light machine guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Yu 1 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Imperial Japanese Navy photo. Author unknown. — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08455.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons