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Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
14 boats	Kure K K: 14 boats	1944: 14 boats	none	none	surrendered 8.1945 and BU: 14 boats

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	15
Length, m	14.0
Breadth, m	2.00
Draught, m	2.00
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 pressured air torpedo motor
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts	3
Fuel, t	none
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 - 450 TT (bow, 1)
Complement	2
Diving depth operational, m	0 (escape hatch had be above water)

Standard scale images

Project history

Small assault craft for local defence, without depth control and periscope. They can not submerge fully and had to be steeres from CT.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

These boats never went to sea and surrendered in August, 1945.