| History | |
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 Japan | |
| Name | Yu 10 |
| Builder | Hitachi Kasado Works, Kudamatsu, Japan |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics Yu I type | |
| Type | Transport submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 41.40 m (135 ft 10 in) overall |
| Beam | 3.90 m (12 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 3.00 m (9 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Range |
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| Test depth | 100 m (328 ft) |
| Capacity | 24 tons freight or 40 troops |
| Complement | 23 |
| Armament |
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Yu 10 was an Imperial Japanese Army transport submarine of the Yu 1 subclass of the Yu I type. Constructed for use during the latter stages of World War II, she served in the waters of the Japanese archipelago.
Construction
In the final two years of World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army constructed transport submarines — officially the Type 3 submergence transport vehicle and known to the Japanese Army as the Maru Yu — with which to supply its isolated island garrisons in the Pacific. Only submarines of the Yu I type were completed and saw service. The Yu I type was produced in four subclasses, each produced by a different manufacturer and differing primarily in the design of their conning towers and details of their gun armament. None carried torpedoes or had torpedo tubes. Yu 10 was a unit of the Yu 1 subclass.[1]
The Hitachi Kasado Works (Hitachi Kasado Seisakujo) at Kudamatsu, Japan, constructed Yu 10.[1][2] Records of the details of the construction of Yu 10 have not been discovered, but the earlier Yu I-type submarines were laid down and launched during the latter half of 1943 and entered service at the end of 1943 or early in 1944.[2][3]
Service history
Yu 10 spent her operational career in Japanese home waters.[4] She was assigned to Detachment Kuchinotsu, Transport Submarine Group, on 15 May 1945.[2] She made a round-trip supply-and-rescue run from Kuchinotsu in Nagasaki Prefecture on Kyushu to Tokunoshima in the Amami Islands in the northeastern Ryukyu Islands in July 1945.[2][4] She suffered damage in an attack by U.S. aircraft in 1945.[2]
Yu 10 was at Kuchinotsu when World War II ended with the cessation of hostilities[5] on 15 August 1945 and surrendered to the Allies later in August 1945.[2] She sank in a storm at Kuchinotsu in 1945[2][5] and later was scrapped.[2]
References
Footnotes
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- Bailey, Mark L. (1998). "Imperial Japanese Army Transport Submarines: Details of the YU-2 Class Submarine YU-3". Warship International. XXXV (1): 55–63.
- Carpenter, Dorr B. & Polmar, Norman (1986). Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1904–1945. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-396-6.
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Mühlthaler, Erich (1998). "Re:Imperial Japanese Army Transport Submarines". Warship International. XXXV (4): 329–330. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Extra, Perfect guide, The submarines of the Imperial Japanese Forces, Gakken, Tokyo Japan, 2005, ISBN 4-05-603890-2.
- Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Vol.45, True histories of the Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels, Gakken, Tokyo Japan, 2004, ISBN 4-05-603412-5.
- Ships of the World No.506, Kaijinsha, Tokyo Japan, 1996.
- The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.43 Japanese Submarines III, Ushio Shobō, Tokyo Japan, 1980.
- Atsumi Nakashima, Army Submarine Fleet: "The secret project! The men challenged the deep sea, Shinjinbutsu Ōraisha, Tokyo Japan, 2006, ISBN 4-404-03413-X.
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