B1 Type Japanese submarine
Career
Construction:	1940-1943, 20 units
Units:	20 units (I-15, I-17, I-19, I-21, I-23, I-25, I-26, I-27, I-28, I-29, I-30, I-31, I-32, I-33, I-34, I-35, I-36, I-37, I-38, I-39)
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,584 tons / 3,654 tons
Dimensions:	356.5 ft x 30.5 ft x 16.8 ft
Surface propulsion:	2 diesels: 12,400 hp
Submerged propulsion:	Electric motors: 2,000 hp
Surface speed:	23.5 knots
Submerged speed:	8 knots
Maximum depth:	100 m (330 ft)
Range:	14,000 nautical miles at 16 knots
Complement:	94 officers and men
Armament:	1 Yokosuka E14Y seaplane 6 x 533 mm forward torpedo tubes 17 Long Lance torpedoes 1 x 140 mm 50 calibre gun Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links I-25. ... Download high resolution version (900x600, 46 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Japanese submarine I-25 was under the command of Lieutenant Commander Meiji Tagami who had graduated from Class 51 at Etajima, Hiroshima. ... Jump to: navigation, search I-29, code-named Matsu (松, Japanese for pine tree), was a B1 type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy used during World War II on two secret missions with Germany, during one of which she was sunk. ... Jump to: navigation, search I-34 was a Kaidai Junsen Type B1 class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Yokosuka E14Y Glen The Yokosuka E14Y, codenamed Glen by American forces, was an Imperial Japanese Navy seaplane transported aboard, and launched from, Japanese submarine aircraft carriers, such as the I-25. ... The Type 93 was a 610 mm (24 inch) diameter torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ...

B1 Type (I-15 Series) submarines were the most numerous type of submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. In total 20 were made, starting with number I-15, which became the name of the series. Jump to: navigation, search Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that...

These submarines were fast, had a very long range, and carried a single seaplane, located in a hangar in front of the conning tower, and launched by a catapult. Late in the war, some of the submarines has their aircraft hangar removed, to replace it with a 14cm gun. In 1944, the I-36 and I-47 were modified so that they could carry four, and later six, Kaiten kamikaze manned torpedoes. Jump to: navigation, search The Kaiten (Japanese:回天) was a torpedo modified as a suicide weapon, and used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of the Second World War. ... Jump to: navigation, search A kamikaze, a Mitsubishi Zero in this case, about to hit the USS Missouri. ...

The series was rather successful, especially at the beginning of the war.

• I-26, on 31 August 1942, crippled aircraft carrier USS Saratoga with one torpedo hit (out of six launched). On 13 October, she also destroyed the cruiser USS Juneau. She was sunk in action off Leyte in October 1944.

• I-19, on 15 September 1942, fired six torpedoes at aircraft carrier USS Wasp, two of which hit the carrier and destroyed it. The four remaining torpedoes went on for several thousand meters and hit another carrier force, damaging battleship USS North Carolina, and sinking destroyer USS O'Brien. She was apparently sunk by US Navy aircraft attacks on 18 October 1943.

• I-25 conducted the only aerial bombing ever on the continental Unites States in September 1942. She was sunk by destroyer USS Patterson off the New Hebrides on 3 September 1943.

• I-29 was used to conduct personnel and technology exchanges with Germany.

Altogether Type B submarines (B1, B2, and B3 combined) are credited with sinking 56 merchant ships for a total of 372,730 tonnes, about 35% of all merchant shipping sunk by Japanese submarines during the war. The fifth USS Saratoga (CV-3) was the third aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. ... The second USS Juneau (CL-52) was a United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser sunk at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942. ... This article is about the island. ... The eighth USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier. ... The third USS North Carolina (BB-55) was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class. ... Japanese submarine I-25 was under the command of Lieutenant Commander Meiji Tagami who had graduated from Class 51 at Etajima, Hiroshima. ... Jump to: navigation, search USS Patterson (DD-392), a Bagley-class destroyer, was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Daniel Todd Patterson, an officer of the US Navy that served in the Quasi-War with France, First Barbary War, and the War of 1812. ... Jump to: navigation, search I-29, code-named Matsu (松, Japanese for pine tree), was a B1 type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy used during World War II on two secret missions with Germany, during one of which she was sunk. ...

All B1 type submarines were lost during the conflict, except for I-36, which was scuttled off Goto Island by the US Navy on 1 April 1946. The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ...

• I-15 was sunk off San Cristobol on 2 November 1942 by destroyer USS McCalla.
• I-17 was sunk by New Zealand trawler Tui and 2 US Navy aircraft off Noumea on 19 August 1943.
• I-21 was sunk by aircrafts from escort carrier USS Chenango on 29 November 1943.
• I-23 was lost in February of 1942.
• I-27 was sunk by HMS Paladin and HMS Petard off Addu Atoll on 12 February 1944.
• I-28 was sunk by submarine USS Tautog south of Truk on 17 May 1944.
• I-29 was sunk by USS Sawfish in Balintang Channel on 26 July, 1944.
• I-30 was sunk by a mine off Singapore on 13 October 1942.
• I-31 was sunk by destroyers USS Edwards and USS Farragut off Kiska on 12 May 1943.
• I-32 was sunk by destroyer escort USS Manlove and PC 1135 south of Wotje on 24 March 1944.
• I-33 was lost during sea trials in the Inland Sea on 13 June 1944.
• I-34 was sunk by submarine HMS Taurus off Penang on 13 November 1943.
• I-35 was sunk by destroyers USS Meade and USS Frazier off Tarawa on 23 November 1943.
• I-37 was sunk by destroyer escorts USS Conklin and USS McCoy Reynolds off Leyte on 19 November 1944.
• I-38 was sunk by destroyer USS Nicholas near Yap on 12 November 1944.
• I-38 was sunk by destroyer USS Boyd in the Gilberts on 26 November 1943.

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