I-15 during her initial sea trials.
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History | |
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Japan | |
Name | Submarine No. 37 |
Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan |
Laid down | 25 January 1938 |
Renamed | I-15 |
Launched | 7 March 1939 |
Commissioned | 30 September 1940 |
Fate | Sunk 10 November 1942 |
Stricken | 24 December 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type B1 submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 108.7 m (357 ft) |
Beam | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
Draft | 5.14 m (16.9 ft) |
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Speed |
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Range | 14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Test depth | 100 m (328 ft) |
Complement | 94 |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 Yokosuka E14Y floatplane |
I-15 was an Imperial Japanese Navy B1 type submarine commissioned in 1940 that served during World War II. She supported the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, operated off the United States West Coast, and took part in Operation K-1, the Aleutian Islands campaign, and the Guadalcanal campaign, including the Battle of the Eastern Solomons and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, before she was sunk in November 1942 during her fourth war patrol.