I-58
|
|
|---|---|
|
|
| Overview | |
| Shipyard |
Yokosuka |
| Keel laying | December 26, 1942 |
| Launch | June 30, 1943 |
| Commissioning | September 7, 1944 |
| Decommissioning | November 30, 1945 |
| home port | Yokosuka |
| Whereabouts | Sunk as a target ship |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
over water: 2607 tn.l. |
| length |
108.65 meters |
| width |
5.18 meters |
| height |
9.3 meters |
| Diving depth | 100 meters |
| crew |
101 |
| drive |
2 diesels of 4700 hp and 1 electric motor of 1700 hp |
| speed |
above water: 17.75 knots |
| Range |
21,000 nautical miles (38,892 km) at 16 knots |
| Armament |
6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes at the front, |
The Japanese submarine I-58 was a type B3 boat of the Imperial Japanese Navy .
The keel of I-58 was laid on December 26, 1942 at the Yokosuka naval shipyard, and the submarine was launched on June 30, 1943. On September 7, 1944, the final commissioning took place under the command of Commander Hashimoto. The gun on the quarterdeck was removed in September to make room for four Kaiten .
On July 30, 1945, I-58 sank under Kaigun-Taisa Mochitsura Hashimoto the American heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis when it was on its way back from Tinian , where it had delivered parts of the atomic bomb Little Boy . I-58 shot down a torpedo compartment of six Type 95 torpedoes , two of which hit the ship under the front tower and under the bridge structure. The ship quickly listed to starboard and sank within only twelve minutes without an emergency call being made. Relatively few lifeboats could be launched. An estimated 300 members of the 1196-strong crew died when an ammunition chamber exploded; the rest were still able to leave the ship. However, up to 100 of them died from their injuries within a few hours.
At the end of the war, the boat entered the port of Goto , Japan and later served as a target for naval exercises. It was the only one of the three boats from the B3 class that survived the war.
literature
- Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, Koji Takaki: I-400 - Japan's Secret Aircraft Carrying Strike Submarine. Hikoki, Crowborough 2006, ISBN 1-902109-45-7 .
- Japanese Naval Vessels. Volume 13: Submarines Type Sen-Toko (I-400 Class and I-13 Class). Tokyo 1977.
- The Imperial Japanese Navy. Volume 12: Submarines . 2nd Edition. Tokyo 1995, ISBN 4-7698-0462-8 .
- Tadeusz Januszewski: Japanese Submarine Aircraft . Mushroom Publications, Redbourn 2002, ISBN 83-916327-2-5 .
Web links
- Mission history of I-58 (English)
- Pictures of I-58 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d U-Boot-Typ B3 ( en ) Accessed August 11, 2009.
- ↑ The Japanese rank Taisa corresponds to the German rank of captain at sea . The prefix Kaigun indicates that it is a naval officer.
- ↑ Joachim Wätzig: The Japanese Fleet - From 1868 to today . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89488-104-6 , p. 183
- ↑ Wreck of "USS Indianapolis" discovered after 72 years orf.at, August 20, 2017; accessed August 20, 2017. - No emergency call.