I-64 on sea trials off Kure, Japan, on 30 August 1930.
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History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | I-64 |
Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan |
Laid down | 28 March 1927 |
Launched | 5 October 1929 |
Completed | 30 August 1930 |
Commissioned | 30 August 1930 |
Decommissioned | 15 November 1939 |
Recommissioned | 15 November 1940 |
Fate | Sunk by USS Triton, 17 May 1942 |
Renamed | I-164, 20 May 1942 |
Stricken | 10 July 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | KD4 Type, Kadai type submarine |
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Length | 97.70 m (320 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 4.83 m (15 ft 10 in) |
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Range | |
Test depth | 60 m (197 ft) |
Complement | 58 officers and enlisted |
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I-64 was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai-class cruiser submarine of the KD4 sub-class commissioned in 1930. During World War II, she supported the Japanese invasion of Malaya and conducted war patrols in the Indian Ocean before she was sunk in May 1942 while deploying to take part in the upcoming Battle of Midway. Just after her loss, and before her loss became known to the Japanese, she was renumbered I-164.