Japanese submarine I-152
I-52 in 1930.
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History | |
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Japan | |
Name | Submarine No. 51 |
Ordered | 1919 fiscal year |
Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan |
Laid down | 14 February 1922 or 2 April 1922 (see text) |
Launched | 12 June 1923 |
Renamed | I-52 on 1 November 1924 |
Completed | 20 May 1925 |
Commissioned | 20 May 1925 |
Renamed | I-152 on 20 May 1942 |
Decommissioned | 14 July 1942 |
Stricken | 1 August 1942 |
Renamed | Haikan No. 14 on 1 August 1942 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kaidai-class submarine (Type II) |
Displacement | |
Length | 100.85 m (330 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 7.64 m (25 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 5.14 m (16 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range |
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Test depth | 45.7 m (150 ft) |
Complement | 58 men |
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I-52 (伊号第五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-go-jyuni sensuikan), later I-152 (伊号第百五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-hyaku-go-jyuni sensuikan), was the second
Background
Following
Design
The first Kaidai prototype, Project S22, was based on the latest
With improved
The Japanese did not regard I-52 as a completely successful design despite the various technical achievements her design and construction represented and her superior performance to that of I-51. They planned several more submarines of the same Kaidai II design, but cancelled all of them before formally signing contracts for their construction after the arrival of seven Imperial German Navy U-boats Japan received as war reparations at the end of World War I prompted a review of Japanese submarine design concepts.[4] I-52 thus was the only Kaidai II-type submarine constructed.
Construction and commissioning
Project S25 was
Operational history
Pre-World War II
On the day of her commissioning, I-52 was attached to the Kure Naval District.[5][6] On 1 December 1925, she was assigned to Submarine Division 17 in Submarine Squadron 2 in the 2nd Fleet, a component of the Combined Fleet.[5] On 25 October 1926, she was in Hiroshima Bay when the Hakata Bay Railway Company train ferry Fukuoka Maru accidentally rammed her in her port side, damaging her.[5][6] She participated in the Grand Naval Maneuvers ("Special Great Maneuvers") of August to October 1927.[5][6]
Submarine Division 17 was reassigned to the Kure Naval District on 10 December 1928,[5] and while assigned to the district had two stints in the Kure Defense Squadron, from 30 November 1929 to 1 December 1930 and from 1 October 1932 to 1 January 1933.[5] Unsuccessful in fleet service due to problems with her diesel engines, I-52 never returned to the fleet after Submarine Division 17′s reassignment to the Kure Naval District in 1928. Instead, she was retained as part of Submarine Division 17 at the Kure Naval Arsenal for crew training. Submarine Division 17 was deactivated on 15 November 1935,[7] and I-52 was assigned directly to the Kure Naval District that day.[5]
Sources are unclear on I-52′s status in the latter half of the 1930s and at the beginning of the 1940s. She may have become a stationary training ship at the Maizuru Naval Engineering School as early as mid-1935,[6] or her assignment to the school may not have occurred until 15 December 1938.[5] She also was reassigned to the Maizuru Naval District for this duty, but sources disagree on whether this reassignment took place on 15 December 1938[5] or 1 February 1939.[6] She was reattached to the Kure Naval District either on 31 July 1941[6] or 8 December 1941.[5]
World War II
On 8 December 1941 — the day the Pacific campaign of World War II began in East Asia, which was 7 December 1941 on the other side of the International Date Line in Hawaii, where Japan began the war in the Pacific with its attack on Pearl Harbor — I-52 was assigned to the Kure Guard Force in the Kure Naval District for duty as a training ship in the Seto Inland Sea, based at Kure.[5][6] Sometime after 10 April 1942, she also took part in testing different submarine garbage disposal units.[6] She was renumbered I-152 (伊号第百五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-hyaku-go-jyuni sensuikan) on 20 May 1942.[6]
I-152 was placed in
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Peatty, Kaigun, p. 114, 212-214
- ^ Stille, Imperial Japanese Submarines 1941-45, p. 4
- ^ a b c Jentsura, Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945, p. 190.
- ^ Boyd, The Japanese Submarine Force in World War II, p. 17-18
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s I-152 ijnsubsite.com August 9, 2018 Accessed 16 January 2021
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander (1 March 2016). "IJN Submarine I-152: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ Submarine Division 17 ijnsubsite.com Accessed 16 January 2021
Bibliography
- Boyd, Carl (2002). The Japanese Submarine Force in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557500150.
- Peattie, Mark R. (1997). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
- Stille, Mark (2007). Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1846030901.
External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN". Imperial Japanese Navy.
- Hackett, Bob; Sander Kingsepp. "IJN Submarine I-152: Tabular Record of Movement". CombinedFleet.com. Retrieved 25 August 2017.