Japanese submarine I-152
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"Japanese submarine I-52 (1922)" redirects here. For other submarines with the name, see Japanese submarine I-52.
I-52 (伊号第五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-go-jyuni sensuikan), later I-152 (伊号第百五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-hyaku-go-jyuni sensuikan), was the second prototype of the Kaidai-class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Commissioned in 1925, she became a training ship in 1935 and was decommissioned in 1942 during the early months of the Pacific campaign of World War II. She subsequently served as the stationary training hulk Haikan No. 14 and was scrapped after the war.
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Name | Submarine No. 51 |
Ordered | 1919 fiscal year |
Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan |
Laid down | 14 February 1922 or 2 April 1922 (see text) |
Launched | 12 June 1923 |
Renamed | I-52 on 1 November 1924 |
Completed | 20 May 1925 |
Commissioned | 20 May 1925 |
Renamed | I-152 on 20 May 1942 |
Decommissioned | 14 July 1942 |
Stricken | 1 August 1942 |
Renamed | Haikan No. 14 on 1 August 1942 |
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Class and type | Kaidai-class submarine (Type II) |
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Length | 100.85 m (330 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 7.64 m (25 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 5.14 m (16 ft 10 in) |
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Test depth | 45.7 m (150 ft) |
Complement | 58 officers and men |
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