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Name | I-23 |
Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal |
Laid down | Yokosuka Navy Yard as Submarine No. 41, 8 December 1938 |
Launched | 24 November 1939 |
Commissioned | 27 September 1941 |
Fate | Presumed lost with all 96 hands off Hawaii, 28 February 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type B1 submarine |
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Length | 108.6 m (356 ft) |
Beam | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
Draft | 5.14 m (16.9 ft) |
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Aircraft carried | 1 x Watanabe E9W1 Type 96 "Slim" floatplane |
I-23 was a Type B1 submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. After a raid on the West Coast of California she participated in an attempt at a second attack upon Pearl Harbor. After surviving an American air attack on Kwajalein I-23 was lost in early 1942 with all hands somewhere off the Oahu coast of Hawaii.[2]