Kanamono (submarine)

**Kanamono**
	Longitudinal profile of the U-Kanamono
Ship data
country	Japan
Ship type	Small submarine
Shipyard	Kure naval shipyard
Construction period	1944 to 1945
Units built	14th
From 1944
length	14.00 m ( Lüa )
width	2.00 m
Draft	Max. 2.00 m
displacement	15 t
crew	2
Machine system
machine	Torpedo compressed air drive
Machine ; performance	?
Top ; speed	3.0 kn (6 km / h)
propeller	2 (counter-rotating)

The Kanamono was a planned micro-submarine class of the Imperial Japanese Navy towards the end of the Pacific War .

The very simply designed boat had a long, cylindrical central part. The bow and stern were conical. The boat could not dive, only undercut the surface of the water. It was designed so simply that it didn't even get a periscope. The two crew members only had a small round tower structure with viewing slits. The primary armament consisted of a 45 cm torpedo with a 600 kg explosive charge, which was embedded in the bow area of the boat. By the end of the war, 14 boats from the naval shipyard in Kure had been completed. However, they were no longer used in the war.

literature

Harald Fock: Naval small weapons. Manned torpedoes, small submarines, small speedboats, explosives yesterday - today - tomorrow. Nikol, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930656-34-5 , p. 51.