Japanese submarine I-152

	I-52 in 1930.
History
Japan
Name	Submarine No. 51
Ordered	1919 fiscal year
Builder	Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan
Laid down	14 February 1922 or 2 April 1922 (see text)
Launched	12 June 1923
Renamed	I-52 on 1 November 1924
Completed	20 May 1925
Commissioned	20 May 1925
Renamed	I-152 on 20 May 1942
Decommissioned	14 July 1942
Stricken	1 August 1942
Renamed	Haikan No. 14 on 1 August 1942
Fate	Hulked 1 August 1942; Scrapped 1946-1948;
General characteristics
Class and type	Kaidai-class submarine (Type II)
Displacement	1,500 long tons (1,524 t) surfaced; 2,500 long tons (2,540 t) submerged;
Length	100.85 m (330 ft 10 in)
Beam	7.64 m (25 ft 1 in)
Draught	5.14 m (16 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 × Sulzer diesel engines, 6,800 hp (5.1 MW); 2 x Electric motors, 2,000 hp (1.5 MW);
Speed	21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph) (surfaced); 7.7 kn (14.3 km/h; 8.9 mph) (submerged);
Range	10,000 nmi (19,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced); 100 nmi (190 km) @ 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) (submerged);
Test depth	45.7 m (150 ft)
Complement	58 officers and men
Armament	6 × 533 mm (21 in) forward torpedo tubes; 2 × 533 mm (21 in) aft torpedo tubes; 1 x 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun ; 16 × naval mines;

I-52 (伊号第五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-go-jyuni sensuikan), later I-152 (伊号第百五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-hyaku-go-jyuni sensuikan), was the second prototype of the Kaidai-class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Commissioned in 1925, she became a training ship in 1935 and was decommissioned in 1942 during the early months of the Pacific campaign of World War II. She subsequently served as the stationary training hulk Haikan No. 14 and was scrapped after the war.

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