Japanese submarine I-159
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | I-159 |
| Builder: | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down: | 25 March 1927, as I-59 |
| Launched: | 25 March 1929 |
| Completed: | 31 March 1930 |
| Renamed: | 20 May 1942, as I-159 |
| Fate: | Scuttled in 1946 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Kaidai-class submarine (Type IIIB) |
| Displacement: | 1,833 long tons (1,862 t) surfaced 2,602 long tons (2,644 t) submerged |
| Length: | 331.4 ft (101.0 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × diesel engines, 6,800 hp (5.1 MW) Electric motors, 1,800 hp (1.3 MW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) (surfaced) 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (submerged) |
| Range: | 10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) |
| Test depth: | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Complement: | 60 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 × 533 mm (21 in) forward torpedo tubes 2 × 533 mm (21 in) aft torpedo tubes 1 × 12 cm (4.7 in)/50 cal. deck gun |
I-159 was a Kaidai-class submarine (KD3 Type) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.[2] Torpedoed the SS Rooseboom carrying troops and civilians fleeing Padang en route to Colombo in the aftermath of the loss of Singapore.
Fate
Decommissioned on 30 November 1945, sunk as a target off the Gotō Islands on 1 April 1946.
References
- ↑ "Type KD3". combinedfleet.com. 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- ↑ Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander (2012). "IJN Submarine I-159: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
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