Japanese submarine I-55 (1925)
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese submarine I-55.
I-55, later renumbered I-155 (伊号第五五潜水艦, I-gō Dai-Hyaku-gojūgosensuikan), was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai-class cruiser submarine of the KD3A sub-class commissioned in 1927. Early in World War II, she supported Japanese forces in the invasion of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies campaign before assuming training duties in Japan, interrupted briefly in 1943 by her participation in the Aleutian Islands campaign. She became a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier in 1945 before surrendering at the end of the war. She was scuttled in 1946.
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I-55 in harbor in 1930. | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Submarine No. 78 |
Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan |
Laid down | 1 April 1924 |
Renamed | I-55 on 1 November 1924 |
Launched | 2 September 1925 |
Completed | 5 September 1927 |
Commissioned | 5 September 1927 |
Decommissioned | 10 February 1932 (possibly; see text) |
Recommissioned | 20 February 1934 (possibly; see text) |
Decommissioned | 31 July 1936 |
Recommissioned | 1 December 1936 |
Renamed | I-155 on 20 May 1942 |
Decommissioned | 20 July 1945 |
Recommissioned | early August 1945 |
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Class and type | Kaidai-class submarine (KD3A Type) |
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Length | 100 m (328 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 4.82 m (15 ft 10 in) |
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Test depth | 60 m (197 ft) |
Complement | 60 |
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