Japanese submarine I-2

History
Imperial Japanese Navy
Name	Submarine cruiser No. 75
Builder	Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	6 August 1923
Renamed	I-2 on 1 November 1924
Launched	23 February 1925
Completed	24 July 1926
Commissioned	24 July 1926
Decommissioned	15 November 1929
Recommissioned	15 November 1930
Decommissioned	1 October 1935
Recommissioned	1 December 1936
Decommissioned	15 November 1939
Recommissioned	31 July 1941
Fate	Sunk by USS Saufley, 7 April 1944
Stricken	10 June 1944
Fate	Sunk 7 April 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	J1 type submarine
Displacement	2,135 tons (surfaced) 2,791 tons (submerged)
Length	320 ft (98 m)
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draught	16.5 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion	twin shaft MAN 10 cylinder 4 stroke diesels giving 6000 bhp two electric motors of 2600 ehp
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) (surfaced) 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (submerged)
Range	24,400 nmi (45,200 km; 28,100 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Test depth	80 m (262 ft)
Complement	68 officers and men
Armament	two 140mm/40 caliber deck guns (one each fore and aft)[1] (in January 1943 the after gun was replaced with a 46 foot Daihatsu barge) 6 × 533mm torpedo tubes 20 × Type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes

I-2 was an Imperial Japanese Navy J1 type cruiser submarine commissioned in 1926. She served in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. During the latter conflict she operated in support of the attack on Pearl Harbor, conducted anti-shipping patrols in the Indian Ocean, supported the Indian Ocean raid, and took part in the Aleutian Islands campaign, the Guadalcanal campaign, Operation Ke, and the New Guinea campaign before she was sunk in April 1944.