Japanese submarine I-2

History
Imperial Japanese Navy
Name	Submarine cruiser No. 75
Builder	Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	6 August 1923
Renamed	I-2 on 1 November 1924
Launched	23 February 1925
Completed	24 July 1926
Commissioned	24 July 1926
Decommissioned	15 November 1929
Recommissioned	15 November 1930
Decommissioned	1 October 1935
Recommissioned	1 December 1936
Decommissioned	15 November 1939
Recommissioned	31 July 1941
Fate	Sunk by USS Saufley, 7 April 1944
Stricken	10 June 1944
Fate	Sunk 7 April 1944
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)
Complement	68 officers and men
Armament	two 140mm/40 caliber deck guns (one each fore and aft); (in January 1943 the after gun was replaced with a 46 foot Daihatsu barge); 6 × 533mm torpedo tubes; 20 × Type 95 oxygen-driven torpedoes;

I-2 was an Imperial Japanese Navy J1 type cruiser submarine 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, supported the Indian Ocean raid, and took part in the Aleutian Islands campaign , the Guadalcanal campaign, Operation Ke, and the New Guinea campaign before she was sunk in April 1944.

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