Japanese submarine I-3

History

Imperial Japanese Navy
Name	SS-76
Builder	Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	1 November 1923
Renamed	I-3 1 November 1924
Launched	8 June 1925
Completed	30 November 1926
Commissioned	30 November 1926
Decommissioned	15 November 1935
Recommissioned	1 December 1936
Decommissioned	15 or 20 November 1939 (see text)
Recommissioned	27 July or 15 November 1940 (see text)
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by PT-59, 9 December 1942
Stricken	20 January 1943
General characteristics
Class & type	J1 type submarine
Displacement	2,135 tons (surfaced) 2,791 tons (submerged)
Length	320 ft (98 m)
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draught	16.5 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion	Twin-shaft MAN 10-cylinder 4-stroke diesels giving 6000 bhp Two electric motors of 2600 ehp
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) (surfaced) 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (submerged)
Range	24,400 nmi (45,200 km; 28,100 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Test depth	80 m (262 ft)
Boats & landing craft carried	1 x 46 ft (14 m) Daihatsu (added November 1942)
Complement	68 officers and men
Armament	two 140mm/40 caliber (5.5-in) deck guns (one each fore and aft); after gun removed November 1942 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 20 × Type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes

I-3 was an Imperial Japanese Navy J1 type submarine commissioned in 1926. She was a large cruiser submarine. She 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, conducted anti-shipping patrols in the Indian Ocean, supported the Indian Ocean raid, and took part in the Aleutian Islands campaign and the Guadalcanal campaign before she was sunk in December 1942.