C2 Class, Japanese Submarines


Specifications:


Tonnage

2184 tons standard displacement

Dimensions

350'10" by 29'10" by 17'6"
106.93m by 9.09m by 5.33m

Maximum speed      

23.5 knots (surfaced)
8 knots (submerged)
Dive to 330 feet (100 meters)

Armament

1 5.5"/50 gun
2 25mm/60 machine gun
8 21" torpedo tubes (20 torpedoes)
Range 14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km) at 16 knots surfaced
60 nautical miles (110 km) at 3 knots submerged

The C2s were virtually identical to the C1s. Another seven units were planned but not laid down.

Some authors list the C1s as the Cs and the C2s as the C1s.


Units in the Pacific:

I-46      

Completed 1944-2-29 (Sasebo)      

Missing from 1944-10-27 off Leyte
I-47 Completed 1944-7-10 (Sasebo)      
I-48 Completed 1944-9-5 (Sasebo)       Sunk 1945-1-23 off Yap by Conklin, Corbesier and Raby


References

Boyd and Yoshida (1995)

Jentschura, Jung, and Mickel (1977)

Worth (2001)

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