I-352 on 23 January 1948 |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | I-351 class submarine |
| Builders: | Kure Naval Arsenal |
| Operators: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Built: | 1943-1945 |
| In commission: | 1945 |
| Planned: | 3 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Tanker submarine |
| Displacement: | 2,650 long tons (2,693 t) surfaced 4,290 long tons (4,359 t) submerged |
| Length: | 111.00 m (364 ft 2 in) overall 107.00 m (351 ft 1 in) waterline |
| Beam: | 10.15 m (33 ft 4 in) |
| Draft: | 4.42 m (14 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Kampon Mk.22 Model 10 diesels 3,700 bhp surfaced 1,200 shp submerged 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 15.8 knots (29.3 km/h) surfaced 6.3 knots (11.7 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 13,000 nmi (24,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) surfaced 100 nmi (190 km) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth: | 90 m (300 ft) |
| Capacity: | • 400 tons (500 kl) gasoline • 20 × 250 kg (550 lb) bombs • 15 × Type 91 torpedoes |
| Complement: | 77 |
| Armament: | • 4 × 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes (4 × Type 95 torpedoes) • 4[1] × 81 mm (3 in) Type 3 mortars • 7 × Type 96 25mm antiaircraft guns |
The Japanese submarine I-351 (伊号第三五一潜水艦 , I-Gō Dai-351 sensuikan) was a tanker/transport submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during 1945. The IJN called this type of submarine Sen-Ho (潜補 Sensuikan-Hokyū, Submarine-Tanker).
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Project number S47. In 1941, the IJN planned a tanker submarine to support their Kawanishi H6K flying boats in areas where either there was no possibility of utilizing shore facilities, or surface ships could not operate. Only one submarine of this type became operational before wars' end, I-351. The other, I-352, was sunk at Kure before being completed.
| Boat # | Name | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| 655 | I-351 | Kure Naval Arsenal | 1 May 1943 | 24 February 1944 | 28 January 1945 | Sunk by USS Bluefish in the South China Sea at 14 July 1945. |
| 656 | I-352 | Kure Naval Arsenal | 8 November 1943 | 23 April 1944 | 90 % complete; sunk by air raid on 22 June 1945. Salvaged and scrapped 31 March 1948. | |
| 657 | Cancelled in October 1943. |
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