Japanese submarine I-1

I-1 in 1930
History
Imperial Japanese Navy
Name	Submarine Cruiser No. 74
Builder	Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	12 March 1923
Launched	15 October 1924
Renamed	I-1 on 1 November 1924
Completed	Late February 1926
Commissioned	10 March 1926
Decommissioned	5 November 1929
Recommissioned	15 November 1930
Decommissioned	15 November 1935
Recommissioned	15 February 1936
Decommissioned	15 November 1939
Recommissioned	15 November 1940
Fate	Wrecked 29 January 1943
Stricken	1 April 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	J1 type submarine
Displacement	2,135 tons (surfaced) 2,791 tons (submerged)
Length	320 ft (98 m)
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draught	16.5 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion	twin shaft MAN 10 cylinder 4 stroke diesels giving 6000 bhp two electric motors of 2600 ehp
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) (surfaced) 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (submerged)
Range	24,400 nmi (45,200 km; 28,100 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Test depth	80 m (262 ft)
Boats & landing craft carried	1 x 46 ft (14 m) Daihatsu (added August–September 1942)
Complement	68 officers and men
Armament	2 x 140mm/40 caliber deck guns (one each fore and aft;[1] after gun removed August–September 1942) 6 × 533mm torpedo tubes 20 × Type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes

I-1 was a J1 type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was a large cruiser submarine displacing 2,135 tons and was the lead unit of the four submarines of her class. Commissioned in 1926, she served in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. During the latter conflict she operated in support of the attack on Pearl Harbor, conducted anti-shipping patrols in the Indian Ocean, and took part in the Aleutian Islands campaign and the Guadalcanal campaign. In January 1943, during the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, Operation Ke, the Royal New Zealand Navy minesweeper corvettes HMNZS Kiwi and HMNZS Moa intercepted her, and she was wrecked at Kamimbo Bay on the coast of Guadalcanal after the ensuing surface battle.^[2][3]