![]() I-176, lead submarine of the class that included I-177
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Name | Submarine No. 155 |
Builder | Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan |
Laid down | 10 March 1941 |
Renamed | I-77 on 17 December 1941 |
Launched | 20 December 1941 |
Renamed | I-177 on 20 May 1942 |
Commissioned | 28 December 1942 |
Fate | Sunk 3 October 1944 |
Stricken | 1 March 1945 |
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Class and type | Kaidai type, KD7-class |
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Length | 105.5 m (346 ft 2 in) |
Beam | 8.25 m (27 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in) |
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Test depth | 80 m (262 ft) |
Complement | 86 |
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I-177 was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai-type cruiser submarine of the KD7 subclass commissioned in 1942. She served during World War II, patrolling off Australia, taking part in the New Guinea campaign, operating in the North Pacific, and participating in the Palau campaign before she was sunk by the destroyer escort USS Samuel S. Miles (DE-183) in 1944, with no survivors.
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