Japanese submarine I-34
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| Name | I-34 |
| Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | January 1, 1941 |
| Launched | September 24, 1941 |
| Commissioned | August 31, 1942 |
| Stricken | January 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk by HMS Taurus, November 13, 1943 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Type B1 submarine |
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| Length | 108.7 m (357 ft) (overall) |
| Beam | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
| Draught | 5.14 m (16.9 ft) |
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| Range | 14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km; 16,000 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Endurance | 90 days |
| Test depth | 100 m (330 ft) |
| Complement | 101 officers and men |
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| Aircraft carried | one seaplane (Yokosuka E14Y1 Glen) |
I-34 was a Kaidai Junsen Type B1 submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During World War II, while on a Yanagi mission between Japan and Germany carrying strategic raw materials and information, she was sunk by the British submarine HMS Taurus using Ultra intelligence.