Japanese submarine I-11

Career (Japan) Imperial Japanese Navy
Name: I-11
Builder: Kawasaki Yard, Kobe
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 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun[1]
Aircraft carried:1 × Yokosuka E14Y seaplane

The submarine I-11 was a Japanese Type A1 long-range fleet submarine which saw service in World War II.

I-11 was lost in the Pacific at some point after 11 January 1944. Her last report was from Funafuti, in the Gilbert Islands.[2]

Notes

  1. Campbell, John Naval Weapons of World War Two ISBN 0-87021-459-4 p.191
  2. Boyd, Yoshida p209

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