Imperial Japanese Navy — Submarine
Japanese submarine Yu 1009
Service
- as Yu 1009? — August 19452,188 days of the war
Japanese submarine Yu 1009
Particulars
- Name
- Yu 1009
- Builder
- Japan Steel Works, Hiroshima, Japan
- Fate
- Surrendered August 1945
Scuttled or scrapped (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 1009 was a submarine, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built by Japan Steel Works, Hiroshima, Japan.
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 2,188 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled in August 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
- 2 × IJN Type 92 13 mm antiaircraft guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine Yu 1009 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Imperial Japanese Army — Kaijinsha, Ships of the world No.506 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons