Japanese submarine I-3

History
Imperial Japanese Navy
Name	SS-76
Builder	Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	1 November 1923
Renamed	I-3 1 November 1924
Launched	8 June 1925
Completed	30 November 1926
Commissioned	30 November 1926
Decommissioned	15 November 1935
Recommissioned	1 December 1936
Decommissioned	15 or 20 November 1939 (see text)
Recommissioned	27 July or 15 November 1940 (see text)
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by PT-59, 9 December 1942
Stricken	20 January 1943
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)
Boats & landing craft carried	1 x 46 ft (14 m) Daihatsu (added November 1942)
Complement	68 officers and men
Armament	two 140mm/40 caliber (5.5-in) deck guns (one each fore and aft);[1] after gun removed November 1942 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 20 × Type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes

I-3 was an Imperial Japanese Navy J1 type submarine commissioned in 1926. She was a large cruiser submarine. 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 and the Guadalcanal campaign before she was sunk in December 1942.