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Japanese submarine I-174
Summary
I-74, later I-174, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai type cruiser submarine of the KD6B sub-class commissioned in 1938. During World War II, she took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Guadalcanal campaign, the New Guinea campaign, and the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and operated off Australia before she was sunk during her ninth war patrol in 1944.
The submarines of the KD6B sub-class were essentially repeats of the preceding KD6A sub-class. They displaced surfaced and submerged. The submarines were long, had a beam of and a draft of . They had a diving depth of
For surface running, the submarines were powered by two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a electric motor. The submarines could reach on the surface and underwater. On the surface, the KD3Bs had a range of at ; submerged, they had a range of at .
The submarines were armed with six internal torpedo tubes, four in the bow and two in the stern. They carried a total of 14 torpedoes. They were also armed with one deck gun and two Hotchkiss M1929 anti-aircraft machine guns.
The submarine that would become I-74 was laid down on 16 October 1934 at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal in Sasebo, Japan. Launched on 28 March 1937, she was numbered I-74 on 1 June 1938. She was completed and commissioned on 15 August 1938.
On the day of her commissioning, I-74 was attached to the Kure Naval District and assigned to Submarine Division 11 in Submarine Squadron 2 in the 2nd Fleet, a component of the Combined Fleet. On 15 November 1939, her division was transferred to Submarine Squadron 3, also in the 2nd Fleet. I-74 departed Okinawa on 27 March 1940 in company with the submarines I-68, I-69, , , and I-75 for a training cruise in southern Chinese waters, completing it when the six submarines arrived at Takao, Formosa, on 2 April 1940.
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