Japanese submarine I-19

History
I-19 in 1943
Japan
Name	I-19
Builder	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe
Laid down	15 March 1938
Launched	16 September 1939
Completed	28 April 1941
Stricken	1 April 1944
Fate	Depth charged and sunk 25 November 1943 by USS Radford.
General characteristics
Class & type	Type B1 submarine
Displacement	2,584 tons surfaced 3,654 tons submerged
Length	108.7 m (357 ft)
Beam	9.3 m (31 ft)
Draught	5.14 m (16.9 ft)
Propulsion	2 diesels: 12,400 hp (9,250 kW) Electric motors: 2,000 hp (1,500 kW)
Speed	23.5 knots (44 km/h) surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h) submerged
Range	14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Test depth	100 m (330 ft)
Complement	94 officers and men
Armament	6 × 533 mm forward torpedo tubes 17 torpedoes 1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun
Aircraft carried	1 Yokosuka E14Y floatplane
Service record
Part of:	Submarine Division 1, Yokosuka Naval District 15 November 1939 – 15 November 1940 Submarine Division 2, 6th Fleet 15 November 1940 – 25 November 1943
Commanders:	Kaigun-chūsa Shogo Narahara 28 April 1941 – 15 July 1942 Kaigun-chūsa Takakazu Kinashi 15 July 1942 – 27 September 1943 Kaigun-shōsa Shigeo Kobayashi 27 September – 25 November 1943
Victories:	2 warships sunk (16,464 GRT) 1 warship damaged (37,484 GRT) 3 merchant ships sunk (21,533 GRT) 2 merchant ships damaged (12,876 GRT)

I-19 was a Japanese Type B1 submarine which damaged and destroyed several enemy ships during World War II while serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the Guadalcanal Campaign, with a single torpedo salvo, the submarine sank the aircraft carrier USS Wasp and the destroyer USS O'Brien and damaged the battleship USS North Carolina.