Japanese submarine I-17
Type B1 submarine
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I-17 was a Japanese B1 type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy which saw service during World War II. This long-range submarine cruiser spent the early months of the war in the eastern Pacific and was the first Axis ship to shell the... Wikipedia
Launched: July 19, 1939
Fate: Sunk on 19 August 1943 by HMNZS Tui (T234) and US Kingfisher float-planes
Laid down: April 1938
Range: 14,000 nautical miles (25,928 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Test depth: 100 m (328.1 ft)