Japanese submarine I-54 (1926)

	Sister ship I-55 in harbor
History
Imperial Japanese Navy
Name	Submarine No. 77
Renamed	I-54 on 1 November 1924
Builder	Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan
Laid down	15 November 1924
Launched	15 March 1926
Completed	15 December 1927
Commissioned	15 December 1927
Decommissioned	February 1932
Recommissioned	by June 1933 or mid-November 1934 (see text)
Decommissioned	1 November 1937
Recommissioned	late March 1938
Decommissioned	19 June 1941
Recommissioned	15 August 1941
Decommissioned	31 January 1944
Stricken	20 November 1945
Fate	Scuttled 8 May 1946
General characteristics
Class and type	Kaidai-class submarine (KD3A Type)
Displacement	1,829 t (1,800 long tons) surfaced; 2,337 t (2,300 long tons) submerged;
Length	100 m (328 ft 1 in)
Beam	8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Draft	4.82 m (15 ft 10 in)
Installed power	6,800 bhp (5,071 kW) (diesels); 1,800 hp (1,342 kW) (electric motors);
Propulsion	Diesel-electric; 2 × diesel engines; 2 × electric motors;
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) surfaced; 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged;
Range	10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced; 90 nmi (170 km; 100 mi) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) submerged;
Test depth	60 m (197 ft)
Complement	60
Armament	8 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern), 16 torpedoes; 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) deck gun;

I-54 (伊号第五四潜水艦, I-gō Dai-gojūyonsensuikan), later I-154 (伊号第五四潜水艦, I-gō Dai-Hyaku-gojūyon sensuikan), was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai-class cruiser submarine of the KD3A sub-class commissioned in 1927. During World War II, she conducted three war patrols, supporting Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya in December 1941 and the Dutch East Indies campaign in early 1942, then was assigned to training duties until she was decommissioned in 1944. She was scuttled in 1946.

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