Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - JMSDF

 

 

Natsushio class Submarine - SS

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Units:

unit

laid down

launched

commissioned

decommissioned

SS 523 JDS Natsushio

December 5, 1961

September 18, 1962

June 29, 1963

March 20, 1978

SS 524 JDS Fuyushio

December 6, 1961

December 14, 1962

September 17, 1963

June 10, 1980

 

NOTES:

both units were finally scrapped in 1983

 

BUILDER:

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan and Kawasaki Shipbuilding, Kobe, Japan

 

 

Specifications:

 

Length:

61 meters

 

Beam:

6,4 meters

 

Draft:

4,1 meters

 

Displacement:

790 tons (surfaced) / 940 tons (submerged)

 

Speed:

11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced / 15 knots (28 km/h) submerged

 

Range:

9000 NM (16700 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h) on diesels

40 hrs at 3 knots (5,5 km/h) submarged on batteries

 

Crew:

40

 

Operational depth:

500 feet (152 meters) test depth

 

Propulsion:

DIESEL-ELECTRIC

2 x Mitsubishi 6LDA25B diesel engines

2 x electric-motors (2 x 120-cell lead-acid batteries)

900 bhp surfaced / 2300 shp submerged

2 shafts / 2 propellers

 

Armament:

3 x 21-inch (533mm) torpedo tubes

 

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