Japanese submarine I-13
| Career (Japan) |  Imperial Japanese Navy |
|---|---|
| Name: | I-13 |
| Laid down: | 4 February 1943 |
| Launched: | 30 November 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 16 December 1944 |
| In service: | 1945 |
| Fate: | sunk 16 July 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | A modified (I-13) class |
| Displacement: | 2,620 tons surfaced 4,762 tons submerged |
| Length: | 113.70 m |
| Beam: | 11.70 m |
| Draft: | 5.89 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 diesels: 4,700 hp (3,500 kW) Electric motors: 600 hp (450 kW) |
| Speed: | 16.7 knots (30.9 km/h) surfaced 5.5 knots (10 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 21,000 nm at 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Test depth: | 100 m |
| Complement: | 108 |
| Armament: | 6 × 533 mm forward torpedo tubes 12 torpedoes |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Aichi M6A1 Seiran seaplane |
Japanese submarine I-13 was an AM (A-Modified) type submarine. The submarine was built at the Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe.
I-13 was lost in the Pacific at some point after 11 July 1945, the date of her departure from Japan for Truk.[2] It is possible she was sunk during an ASW operation on 16 July 1945 by aircraft from the escort carrier Anzio and the destroyer escort Lawrence C Taylor.[2]
Notes
Sources
- Boyd, C, Yoshida, A. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II (1995) Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-85310-764-6
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