Japanese submarine I-6
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I-6 was an Imperial Japanese Navy J2 type submarine commissioned in 1935. She was a large cruiser submarine that served in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. During the latter conflict she operated in support of the attack on Pearl Harbor, torpedoed the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), conducted anti-shipping patrols in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, and took part in the Aleutian Islands campaign and New Guinea campaign before she was sunk in June 1944.
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Imperial Japanese Navy | |
Name | I-6 |
Builder | Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan |
Laid down | 14 October 1932 |
Launched | 31 March 1934 |
Completed | 15 May 1935 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1935 |
Decommissioned | 15 December 1938 |
Recommissioned | by 1 April 1939 |
Fate | Sunk 16 June 1944 (see text) |
Stricken | 10 September 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | J2 type submarine |
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Length | 98.50 m (323 ft 2 in) |
Beam | 9.06 m (29 ft 9 in) |
Draft | 5.31 m (17 ft 5 in) |
Depth | 7.58 m (24 ft 10 in) |
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Range |
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Test depth | 80 m (262 ft) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 x Daihatsu (added August 1942–February 1943) |
Complement | 80 officers and men |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 x Yokosuka E6Y1 (until mid-1940) |
Aviation facilities | Hangar, catapult (both removed mid-1940) |
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