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YU1001 small transport submarines of Japanese Army (1944 - 1945)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ゆ1001 [YU1001]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 11.1944 1944 1944 surrendered 8.1945, BU 1946
ゆ1002 [YU1002]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1003 [YU1003]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1004 [YU1004]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1005 [YU1005]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1006 [YU1006]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1007 [YU1007]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 1944 1944/45 surrendered 8.1945, foundered 1.1946
ゆ1008 [YU1008]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1009 [YU1009]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1010 [YU1010]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1011 [YU1011]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 1944 1944/45 surrendered 8.1945, foundered 1946
ゆ1012 [YU1012]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 --- --- BU incomplete 1946
ゆ1013 [YU1013]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944 1944 1944/45 surrendered 8.1945, foundered 1946
ゆ1014 [YU1014]     Chosen, Wonsan (Chinsen), Korea 1944/45 1944/45 1944/45 surrendered 8.1945, foundered 1946


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

392 / 479

Length, m

49.0

Breadth, m

5.00

Draught, m

2.67

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel / 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

700 / 75

Max speed, kts

12 / 5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 35

Endurance, nm(kts)1500(8) / 32(4)
Armament

1 x 1 - 37/46 97-shiki, 1 x 1 - 7.7/80

Military load

40 t of cargo

Electronic equipmentpresumably 93-shiki hydrophone, E27 ECM suite
Complement25
Diving depth operational, m100


Standard scale images


<i>YU1001</i> 1945
YU1001 1945


Project history

Maru-Yu series of IJA. Enlarged version of YU1 class boats. Ordered by Imperial Japanese Army and were financed from Army budget. They were structurally close to small naval transport submarines of Sen-Yuso-Sho type.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

YU1007, 1011, 1013 and 1014 are handed over on demolition in 1947-1948. Fate of remaining submarines is unknown.