Japanese submarine I-26

I-26 in Hiroshima Bay, late October 1941.
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Submarine No. 139
Builder	Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan
Laid down	7 June 1939
Launched	10 April 1940
Renamed	I-27 on 10 April 1940 I-26 on 1 November 1941
Completed	6 November 1941
Commissioned	6 November 1941
Fate	Sunk 17 November 1944
Stricken	10 March 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Type B1 submarine
Displacement	2,584 tons surfaced 3,654 tons submerged
Length	108.7 m (356 ft 8 in)
Beam	9.3 m (30 ft 6 in)
Draft	5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 diesels: 12,400 hp (9,247 kW) electric motors: 2,000 hp (1,491 kW)
Speed	23.5 knots (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph) surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
Range	14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km; 16,000 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Test depth	100 m (328 ft)
Complement	94 officers and men
Armament	6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes fwd   (17 torpedoes) 1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun[1]
Aircraft carried	one seaplane

I-26 was an Imperial Japanese Navy B1 type submarine commissioned in 1941. She saw service in the Pacific War theatre of World War II, patrolling off the West Coast of Canada and the United States, the east coast of Australia, and Fiji and in the Indian Ocean and taking part in Operation K, preparatory operations for the Aleutian Islands campaign, and the Guadalcanal campaign, the Marianas campaign, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was the first Japanese submarine to sink an American merchant ship in the war, sank the first ship lost off the coast of State of Washington during the war, damaged the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), sank the light cruiser USS Juneau (CLAA-52), and was the third-highest-scoring Japanese submarine of World War II in terms of shipping tonnage sunk. Her bombardment of Vancouver Island in 1942 was the first foreign attack on Canadian soil since 1870. In 1944, I-26′s crew committed war crimes in attacking the survivors of a ship she sank. She was sunk in November 1944 during her ninth war patrol.