Japanese submarine I-10 | |
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Career (Japan) | Imperial Japanese Navy |
Name: | I-10 |
Builder: | Kawasaki Yard, Kobe |
In service: | No |
Out of service: | Yes |
General characteristics | |
Class & 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 |
Aircraft carried: | 1 × Yokosuka E14Y seaplane |
IJN I-10 was a Japanese long-range fleet submarine of Type A1 which saw service in World War II.
I-10 conducted long-range operations in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, using her seaplane to carry out reconnaissance on the harbours of Durban and Port Elizabeth and other locales, including Madagascar during 1942.
I-10 was sunk on 4 July 1944 by US warships David W Taylor and Riddle while operating in the Pacific east of Saipan, in the Mariana Islands.[2]
Notes[]
- ↑ Campbell, John Naval Weapons of World War Two ISBN 0-87021-459-4 p.191
- ↑ Boyd, Yoshida p209
Sources[]
- Boyd, C, Yoshida, A. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II (1995) Naval Institute Press.
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