Japanese submarine I-10
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I-10 was an Imperial Japanese Navy Type A1 submarine that served during World War II. Designed as a submarine aircraft carrier, she was commissioned in 1941 and supported the attack on Pearl Harbor, operated in the Indian Ocean — including support for the 1942 midget submarine attack on Diego Suarez — and in the New Caledonia and New Zealand areas, and took part in the Guadalcanal campaign and Marianas campaign before she was sunk in 1944 during her seventh war patrol.
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I-10 at Penang in 1942. | |
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Name | I-10 |
Builder | Kawasaki, Kobe |
Laid down | 7 June 1938 |
Launched | 20 or 29 September 1939 (see text) |
Commissioned | 31 October 1941 |
Fate | Sunk 4 July 1944 |
Stricken | 10 October 1944 |
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Class and type | Type A1 submarine |
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Length | 113.7 m (373 ft 0 in) overall |
Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
Draft | 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in) |
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Test depth | 100 m (330 ft) |
Crew | 100 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Yokosuka E14Y seaplane |
Aviation facilities | 1 × catapult |
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