The Japanese submarine was a tanker/transport submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...

 (IJN), serving during 1945. The IJN called this type of submarine .

Construction

Project number S47. In 1941, the IJN planned a tanker submarine to support their Kawanishi H6K

Kawanishi H6K

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 flying boat

Flying boat

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s in areas where either there was no possibility of utilizing shore facilities, or surface ships could not operate. Only one submarine of this type became operational before wars' end, I-351. The other, I-352, was sunk at Kure before being completed.

Boats

Boat #	Name	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
655	I-351	Kure Naval Arsenal	1 May 1943	24 February 1944	28 January 1945	Sunk by USS Bluefish USS Bluefish (SS-222) , a Gato-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bluefish, a fish of the Atlantic coast of the United States....  in the South China Sea South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around...  at 04°30′N 110°00′E 14 July 1945.
656	I-352	Kure Naval Arsenal	8 November 1943	23 April 1944		90 % complete; sunk by air raid on 22 June 1945. Salvaged and scrapped 31 March 1948.
657						Cancelled in October 1943.

Books

, History of [the] Pacific War Vol.17, "I-Gō Submarines", Gakken

Gakken

is a Japanese publishing company founded in 1947 by Hideto Furuoka, which also produces educational toys. Their annual sales is reported at ¥ 821 billion ....

(Japan), January 1998, ISBN 4-05-601767-0

• Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Extra, "Perfect guide, The submarines of the Imperial Japanese Forces", Gakken (Japan), March 2005, ISBN 4-05-603890-2
• The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.43, "Japanese Submarines III", Ushio Shobō (Japan), September 1980, Book code 68343-43
• Stille, Mark. Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45. Osprey, 2007.