Engineering:I-52-class submarine
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Short description: Cargo submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Builders: | Mitsubishi |
| Operators: |
 Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by: | Type C submarine |
| Built: | 1942–1944 |
| In commission: | 1943–1945 |
| Planned: | 20 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
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| Length: | 356 ft 6 in (108.66 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m) |
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| Range: | 21,000 nmi (39,000 km) at 16 kn (30 km/h) |
| Test depth: | 100 m (330 ft) |
| Complement: | 94 officers and men |
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The Cruiser submarines Type C modified (巡潜丙型改潜水艦 Junsen Hei-gata kai sensuikan) (Type C2), also called I-52-class submarine (伊五十二型潜水艦 I-go-jū-ni-gata sensuikan) were operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Mitsubishi Corporation, between 1943 and 1944, as cargo carriers.
The Japanese constructed only three of these during World War II, although twenty were planned.[1]
- missing name was laid down on 18 March 1942, and she was commissioned on 28 December 1943 into the 11th Submarine Squadron. After training in Japan she was selected for a Yanagi (exchange) mission to Germany. She was sunk on 24 June 1944 by aircraft from missing name 800 mi (1,300 km) southwest of the Azores. Her cargo consisted of rubber, gold, quinine, and Japanese engineers to Germany.
- missing name survived the war, but she was scuttled by the US Navy off the Gotō Islands in 1946.
- missing name was sunk after three months in commission by destroyer missing name and destroyer escort missing name off Saipan on 14 July 1944.
See also
References
- ↑ "Type C3". http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_c3.htm. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
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