Japanese submarine I-402
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | I-402 |
| Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan |
| Laid down | 20 October 1943 |
| Launched | 5 September 1944 |
| Completed | 24 July 1945 |
| Commissioned | 24 July 1945 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | I-400-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 122 m (400 ft) |
| Beam | 12.0 m (39.4 ft) |
| Draft | 7.0 m (23.0 ft) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | |
| Range | 37,500 nmi (69,400 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Test depth | 100 m (330 ft) |
| Complement | 144 officers and men |
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I-402 (伊号第四百二潜水艦, I-gō-dai yon-hyaku-ni-sensuikan) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Sentoku-type (or I-400-class) submarine commissioned in 1945 for service in World War II. Originally intended to be a submarine aircraft carrier like her sister ships I-400 and I-401, she instead was completed as a submarine tanker, but entered service less than a month before the end of the war and never carried out a tanker voyage. She surrendered to the United States at the end of the war in 1945 and was scuttled in 1946. Until 1965, the Sentaku-type submarines were the largest submarines ever commissioned.