Japanese submarine I-9
| Career (Japan) |  Imperial Japanese Navy |
|---|---|
| Name: | I-9 |
| Builder: | Kure Navy Yard, Kure |
| Laid down: | 25 January 1938 |
| Launched: | 20 May 1939 |
| Commissioned: | 13 February 1941 |
| Struck: | 1 August 1943 |
| Fate: | sunk 13 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 |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Yokosuka E14Y seaplane |
Japanese submarine I-9 was a Japanese A1 type submarine. On 11 December 1941 shells and sinks US steamer Lahaina 700 miles northeast of Oahu. On 19 June 1942 shelled and damaged US Army Transport General W. C. Gorgas (
United States Army) . On 25 August 1942 she was depth charged and damaged by USS Grayson, USS Monssen, and USS Patterson (all (
United States Navy)). She made supply runs to Guadalcanal November 1942- January, 1943. She was sunk off Kiska(58°08′N 177°38′E / 58.133°N 177.633°E) 13 June 1943 by USS Frazier .[2][3][4]
Notes
- ↑ Campbell, John Naval Weapons of World War Two ISBN 0-87021-459-4 p.191
- ↑ Boyd, Yoshida p211
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Imperial Submarines". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
Sources
- Boyd, C, Yoshida, A. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II (1995) Naval Institute Press.
- Stille, Mark. Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45. Osprey, 2007.
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