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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Submarine No. 626 |
Builder | Kure Navy Yard, Kure, Hiroshima |
Laid down | 15 May 1942 |
Renamed | I-53 on 1 November 1942 |
Launched | 24 December 1942 |
Completed | 20 February 1944 |
Commissioned | 20 February 1944 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type C3 submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 108.7 m (356 ft 8 in) overall |
Beam | 9.3 m (30 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in) |
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Test depth | 100 m (330 ft) |
Crew | 94 |
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The second I-53 was the second of three Type C cruiser submarines of the C3 sub-class built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Commissioned in February 1944, she operated primarily as a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier during the final year of World War II and sank the destroyer escort USS Underhill (DE-682). Surrendered at the end of the war, she was scuttled by the United States Navy in 1946.