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I361  

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
伊361 [I361]			Kure K K	2/1943	30.10.1943	5.1944	sunk 30.5.1945
伊362 [I362]			Mitsubishi, Kobe	3/1943	29.11.1943	5.1944	sunk 18.1.1945
伊363 [I363]			Kure K K	5/1943	12.12.1943	7.1944	surrendered 8.1945, sunk 29.10.1945
伊364 [I364]			Mitsubishi, Kobe	7/1943	15.2.1944	6.1944	sunk 16.9.1944
伊365 [I365]			Yokosuka K K	5/1943	17.12.1943	8.1944	sunk 28.11.1944
伊366 [I366]			Mitsubishi, Kobe	8/1943	29.3.1944	8.1944	surrendered 8.1945, scuttled 1.4.1946
伊367 [I367]			Mitsubishi, Kobe	10/1943	28.4.1944	8.1944	surrendered 8.1945, scuttled 1.4.1946
伊368 [I368]			Yokosuka K K	7/1943	29.1.1944	8.1944	sunk 27.2.1945
伊369 [I369]			Yokosuka K K	9/1943	9.3.1944	10.1944	surrendered 8.1945, BU 1946
伊370 [I370]			Mitsubishi, Kobe	12/1943	26.5.1944	9.1944	sunk 26.2.1945
伊371 [I371]			Mitsubishi, Kobe	3/1944	21.7.1944	10.1944	sunk 24.2.1945
伊372 [I372]			Yokosuka K K	2/1944	26.6.1944	11.1944	sunk 18.7.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1440
Displacement normal, t	1779 / 2215
Length, m	70.5 pp 73.0 wl 73.5 oa
Breadth, m	8.90
Draught, m	4.76
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Kampon diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1850 / 1200
Max speed, kts	13 / 6.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 220
Endurance, nm(kts)	15000(10) / 100(3)
Armament	I361: 1 x 1 - 140/40 11-shiki, 2 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 - 533 TT (2) others: 1 x 1 - 140/40 11-shiki, 2 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki
Military load	2 13m Chuhatsu or 14m Daihatsu landing craft, 2 RIBs, 110 troops, 82t of cargo
Electronic equipment	2-shiki 2-go radar, 93-shiki sonar, 93-shiki hydrophone, E27 ECM suite
Complement	75
Diving depth operational, m	75 (60 with landing craft)

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Project history

Tei-Gata D1 type. Specialised submarines intended for transportation of various cargoes. It was originally supposed to use them for supply of ships in far areas and fulfilment of subversive operations. Already during building they were reoriented for the supply of island garrisons. Ships were classified as "model D" (Tei-Gata).

Under the additional 1942 programme 12 boats of this type were built, under the 1943/1944 programme it was provided to build 92 more boats (Nos I-XCII), but works on them did not start.

Submarines can carry 62.5t of cargo in a pressure hull, additional 20t could take places on a deck. Besides, there were premises for transportation of 110 persons of landing party. In aft part of a deck two Daihatsu class landing crafts (sustained diving at 60m) were fastened. Two bow TTs for self-defence were supposed, however on trials of lead I361 it was found out, that they caused strengthened wavemaking, unmasking submarine, and they have refused. After trials TTs were removed from I361 too. Double-hulled, endurance was 60 days.

Modernizations

mid-1944, I361: - 2 - 533 TT

spring 1945, I361, 363, 366 - 370, 372: - 1 x 1 - 140/40, landing craft and deck cargo; + 5 Kaiten human torpedoes

1945, some survived: + 3-shiki 1-go radar

Naval service

I364 was sunk 15.9.1944 E off Yokosuka by US submarine Sea Devil. I365 was damaged 13.8.1944 by US MTB, 28.11.1944 off Yokosuka she was sunk by US submarine Scabbardfish. I362 was sunk 13.1.1945 N off Truk by US escort destroyer Fleming. I371 after 31.1.1945 was lost, possibly sunk off Kure 24.2.1945 by US submarine Lagarto. I370 was sunk 26.2.1945 at Iwojima by US escort destroyer Finnegan. I368 was sunk 27.2.1945 at Iwojima by US carrier aircraft (Anzio air group). I361 was sunk 30.5.1945 SE off Okinawa by US carrier aircraft (Anzio air group). I372 was sunk 28.7.1945 at Yokosuka by US carrier aircraft. I363 was lost 29.10.1945 on a mine en route from Kure to Sasebo.