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I-401 (伊号第四百一潜水艦, I-gō-dai yon-hyaku-ichi-sensuikan) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Sentoku-type (or I-400-class) submarine commissioned in 1945 for service in World War II. Capable of carrying three two-seat Aichi M6A 1 "Seiran" (Mountain Haze) float -equipped torpedo bombers , the Sentoku -class submarines were built to ...
The wreckage of I-401 was discovered by the Pisces deep-sea submarines of the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory in March 2005 at a depth of 820 metres (2,690 ft). [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] It was reported that I-400 was later found by the same team off the southwest coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu in August 2013 [ 42 ] [ 43 ] at a depth of ...
By 1 June 1945, all four submarines of Submarine Division 1—I-13, I-14, I-400, and I-401—had been fueled and equipped with snorkels. [3] I-400 got underway from Kure on 2 June 1945 for a voyage via the Shimonoseki Strait , the Tsushima Strait , and the Sea of Japan to Nanao Bay on the western coast of Honshu near Takaoka , Japan.
October 14, 1945 Caption: I-400 (Japanese Submarine, 1944). View of the after 5.5" deck gun, with U.S. Navymen S1c Rudolph Massengill (in pointer's seat) and Torp. 1c Willis Clement. Taken at Yokosuka, Japan, October 14, 1945. Submarines I-14 and I-401 are alongside. Source:
The Type D Modified ((潜)丁型改, (Submarine) Type D Modified) (I-373-class) submarine was designed as a tanker submarine based on the Type D1 but with no torpedoes. I-373 – sunk in the East China Sea on August 14, 1945, by USS Spikefish. I-373 was the last Japanese submarine sunk in World War II.
The I-400-class submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. It displaced 6,500 tons (5,900 tonnes) and was over 400 ft (120 m) long, three times the size of ordinary submarines.
The Aichi M6A Seiran (晴嵐, "Clear Sky Storm" [1]) is a submarine-launched attack floatplane designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. It was intended to operate from I-400 class submarines whose original mission was to conduct aerial attacks against the United States.
The official designation of the submarine was Sentaka-Shō type submarine. Ro-500-class: Submarine: Ro-500: 1,120 tonnes Was German Kriegsmarine submarine under the name U-511, until given to Japan 16 September 1943. Ro-501-class: Submarine: Ro-501: 1,144 tonnes Was German Kriegsmarine submarine under the name U-1224, until given to Japan 15 ...