Japanese submarine I-6

History

I-6 in 1935 or 1936.




Imperial Japanese Navy
Name	I-6
Builder	Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	14 October 1932
Launched	31 March 1934
Completed	15 May 1935
Commissioned	15 May 1935
Decommissioned	15 December 1938


Recommissioned	by 1 April 1939
Fate	Sunk 16 June 1944 (see text)


Stricken	10 September 1944


General characteristics
Class & type	J2 type submarine
Displacement	1,900 tons (surfaced) 3,061 tons(submerged)
Length	98.50 m (323 ft 2 in)
Beam	9.06 m (29 ft 9 in)
Draft	5.31 m (17 ft 5 in)
Depth	7.58 m (24 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 × Kampon Mk.1A Model 7 diesel engines, 8,000 bhp (6,766 kW), 2 shafts Two electric motors, 2600 shp (2,199 kW)
Speed	20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) (surfaced) 7.5 kn (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) (submerged)
Range	20,000 nmi (37,000 km; 23,000 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 65 nmi (120 km; 75 mi) at 3 kn (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) (submerged)
Test depth	80 m (262 ft)
Boats & landing craft carried	1 x Daihatsu (added August 1942–February 1943)
Complement	80 officers and men
Armament	6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (4 forward, 2 aft) 17 × Type 89 torpedoes 1 x 127 mm (5 in) gun 1 x 13.2 mm (0.5 in) machine gun
Aircraft carried	1 x Yokosuka E6Y1 (until mid-1940)
Aviation facilities	Hangar, catapult (both removed mid-1940)

I-6 was an Imperial Japanese Navy J2 type submarine commissioned in 1935. She was a large cruiser submarine that served in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. During the latter conflict she operated in support of the attack on Pearl Harbor, torpedoed the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), conducted anti-shipping patrols in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, and took part in the Aleutian Islands campaign and New Guinea campaign before she was sunk in June 1944.