Sister ship I-56 in harbor, 1930
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History | |
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Imperial Japanese Navy | |
Name | I-60 |
Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan |
Laid down | 10 October 1927 |
Launched | 24 April 1929 |
Completed | 20 or 24 December 1929 (see text) |
Commissioned | 24 December 1929 |
Decommissioned | 15 November 1933 |
Recommissioned | ca. 1934 |
Decommissioned | Second half of 1936 |
Recommissioned | 1 December 1936 |
Fate | Sunk 17 January 1942 |
Stricken | 10 March 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kaidai-class submarine (KD3B Type) |
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Length | 101 m (331 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
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Range |
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Test depth | 60 m (200 ft) |
Complement | 60 |
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I-60 was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai-class cruiser submarine of the KD3B sub-class commissioned in 1928. In 1939, she was involved in a collision that sank her sister ship I-63. She served in World War II, supporting Japanese forces during the Dutch East Indies campaign in early 1942 until she was sunk by a British destroyer on 17 January 1942 during her first war patrol.