I-27 - Japanese submarine type "I-15", which was in service with the Imperial Navy of Japan during the Second World War .
| I-27 | |
|---|---|
| Service | |
 Japan empire | |
| Title | I-27 |
| Class and type of vessel | Type I-15 / Type B1 |
| Launched | February 24, 1942 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | February 12, 1944 |
| Status | sunk February 12, 1944 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 2631 t |
| Full displacement | 3713 t |
| Length | 108.7 m |
| Width | 9.3 m |
| Draft | 5.1 m |
| Power point | 2 diesel engines (12,400 hp), 2 electric motors (2,000 hp), 2 propeller shafts |
| Surface speed | 23.5 knots |
| Underwater speed | 8 knots |
| Working depth | 100 m (test) |
| Above-water swimming range | 14,000 nautical miles (25,900 km) at 16 knots |
| Crew | 94 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 140-mm / 40 marine gun of the 11-year-old standard [one] |
| Flak | 2 × 25 mm / 60 anti-aircraft guns Type 96 |
| Mine torpedo armament | 6 x 533 mm bow torpedo tubes, 17 torpedoes |
| Aviation group | seaplane Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" |
Content
General Description
Submarines of type “I-15” (type B1) - further development of submarines of subtype KD6 of type “Kaidai”. Boats of the “I-15” type were equipped with a seaplane for reconnaissance at sea. Displacement - 2631 tons in the surface position and 3713 tons in the underwater position. The main measurements: length 108.7 m, width 9.3 m and draft 5.1 m. Working depth - 100 m [2] .
The main power plant consisted of two diesel engines, each of which with a capacity of 6200 liters. with. set in motion by one screw. The power of the electric motor used to move under water is 1000 liters. with. The maximum speed is 23.6 knots on the surface and 8 knots under water [3] . Cruising range above water is 14 thousand nautical miles at a speed of 16 knots, under water - 96 nautical miles at a speed of 3 knots [4] .
The submarine was armed with six bow 533 mm torpedo tubes and carried on board up to 17 torpedoes. Artillery - a 140-mm Type 11 sea gun and two 25-mm Type 96 anti-aircraft guns. [4] . In the area of the captain’s bridge there was an air hangar, on the front deck there was an aviation catapult [4] .
The type of submarine "I-15" (or "B1") was the largest in number of submarines built for the Japanese fleet - 18 were built, of which only the I-36 survived until the end of the war.
Service
Admitted to the Imperial Navy of Japan in Sasebo on February 24, 1942. The first torpedo ship is the Australian SS Iron Crown going from Whyalla to Newcastle. It was torpedoed on June 4, 1942, 44 miles south-southwest of the island of Gabo . Of the 42 people, 38 were killed, 4 were rescued by the transport ship Mulbera [5] . March 20, 1943 the submarine I-27 torpedoed a second ship - SS Fort Mumford with a displacement of 7132 tons - in the Indian Ocean ), which went from Vancouver to the Mediterranean Sea and was carrying cargo for the army [6] . From the only survivor it was not possible to find out the circumstances of the attack, which led to the generation of rumors that the entire crew was killed by the Japanese [7] .
On May 7, 1943, I-27 in the Gulf of Oman was torpedoed by the Dutch bulk carrier Berakit with a displacement of 6608 tons. On June 3, 1943, the SS Montanan ship was torpedoed there with a displacement of 4897 tons [8] [9] : five sailors were killed, 58 were saved [10] . On June 24, another attack was launched on the British Venture tanker with a displacement of 4696 tons, and after 4 days the Norwegian vessel Dah Puh with a displacement of 1974 tons (both sunk) was attacked.
July 5, 1943 I-27 torpedoed the ship Alcoa Protector , which was part of the convoy PA-44 in the Gulf of Oman. The ship's engines were lifted from the bottom, then they were installed on the Kinsman Independent freighter , sailing along the Great Lakes. On November 8, 1943, I-27 sank SS Liberty type Sambridge vehicles . Survivors were evacuated on lifeboats, Captain H. Skarr was captured by the Japanese. The survivors heard machine-gun fire, but its source was not established, and Scarr himself was released from Changi prison at the end of the war [11] .
On February 12, 1944, a submarine torpedoed the Maldives islands SS Khedive Ismail with a displacement of 7513 tons, 1,297 people out of 1,511 on board were killed (including crew members). The Japanese tried to pick up survivors, but the submarine, three kilometers from the point of attack, spotted the British destroyers Paladin and Petard . They dropped deep bombs, fired torpedoes and rammed a submarine, finally destroying it Of the 100 I-27 crew members, only one survived; the British captured him.
Notes
- ↑ Campbell, John Naval Weapons of World War Two ISBN 0-87021-459-4 p. 191
- ↑ Bagnasco, p. 189
- ↑ Chesneau, p. 200
- ↑ 1 2 3 Carpenter & Dorr, p. 102
- ↑ Broken Hill Proprietary . Mercantile Marine. Date of treatment June 18, 2012.
- ↑ Fort Ships KS . Mariners. Date of treatment January 5, 2012.
- ↑ Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939-1945, Bernard Edwards, Pen and Sword, 2010, ISBN 1783036788 , 9781783036783
- ↑ Santa Paula SP-1590 . Navyhistory.com. Date of treatment September 29, 2012.
- ↑ Indian Ocean - Red Sea 1943 . US Ships Sunk or Damaged in South Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Red Sea During World War II . American Merchant Marine at War, www.usmm.org. Date of treatment September 29, 2012. Archived September 30, 2012.
- ↑ Stone, Eric American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. in WWII . SS Arkansan . Eric Stone Date of treatment September 29, 2012.
- ↑ Shipping Company Losses of the Second World War, Ian M Malcolm, The History Press, 2013, ISBN 0750953713 , 9780750953719
Literature
- Erminio Bagnasco. Submarines of World War Two. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1977 .-- ISBN 0-87021-962-6 .
- Carl Boyd, Akikiko Yoshida. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2002. - ISBN 1-55750-015-0 .
- Dorr B. Carpenter, Norman Polmar. Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1904–1945. - London: Conway Maritime Press, 1986. - ISBN 0-85177-396-6 .
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 / ed. by Roger Chesneau. - Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1980 .-- ISBN 0-85177-146-7 .
- Mochitsura Hashimoto. Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet 1942 - 1945 / traslated by EHM Colegrave. - London: Cassell and Company, 1954.
- Mark Stille. Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45. - Botley, Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2007 .-- Vol. 135. - (New Vanguard). - ISBN 978-1-84603-090-1 .
Links
- Hackett, Bob HIJMS Submarine I-27: Tabular Record of Movement . Sensuikan! . Combinedfleet.com (2003). Date of treatment May 10, 2009.
- Hackett, Bob Type B1 . Sensuikan! . Combinedfleet.com (2003). Date of treatment May 10, 2009.