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Empire of Japan | |
Name | I-65 |
Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal |
Laid down | 19 December 1929 |
Launched | 2 June 1931 |
Completed | 1 December 1932 |
Renamed | I-165, 20 May 1942 |
Reclassified | Training ship, December 1944 |
Fate | Sunk by US aircraft, 27 June 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kaidai-class submarine (KD5 Type) |
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Length | 97.7 m (320 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) |
Draft | 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) |
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Test depth | 70 m (230 ft) |
Complement | 75 |
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I-65, later renumbered I-165, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai type cruiser submarine commissioned in 1932. A KD5 sub-class submarine, she served during World War II, supporting Japanese forces in the invasion of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies campaign, participating in the Battle of Midway, and patrolling in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean before she was sunk in 1945. In 1944, her crew committed a war crime, massacring the survivors of the merchant ship Nancy Moller.