Japanese submarine I-9

Career (Japan) Imperial Japanese Navy
Name: I-9
Builder: Kure Navy Yard, Kure
Fate: sunk 11 June 1943
General characteristics
Class and type: A1 (I-9) class
Displacement: 2,920 tons surfaced
4,150 tons submerged
Length: 113.70 m
Beam: 11.70 m
Draft: 5.89 m
Propulsion: 2 diesels: 12,400 hp (9,200 kW)
Electric motors: 2,400 hp (1,800 kW)
Speed: 23.5 knots (43.5 km/h) surfaced
8 knots (15 km/h) submerged
Range: 16,000 nm at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Test depth: 100 m
Complement: 114
Armament:

6 × 533 mm forward torpedo tubes
18 torpedoes

1 × 140 mm 50 calibre gun
Aircraft carried: 1 × Yokosuka E14Y seaplane

Japanese submarine I-9 was a Japanese A1 type submarine. She was sunk off Kiska 13 May 1943 by the United States Navy destroyer Frazier.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Stille, Mark. Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45 (Osprey, 2007), p.19. There is some confusion over the date, however; DANFS lists it only a possible, and 11 June. Japanese records were so chaotic, JANAC could not be certain.

Sources

Type A1

I-9 · I-10 · I-11
Type A2
Type AM

I-13 · I-14