I-14 (Japanese Submarine)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:08 pm
The Japanese submarine I -14 can be found on the Grenada Grenadines $2 stamp and Min Sheet.
Her dimensions are Length 356 3/4ft. Beam 29 3/4ft. Draught 14/1/2ft (mean) Displacement 1950/2600 tons. Armament Two 5.5". 2 machine guns and Six 21" torpedo tubes. She could also transport a sea-plane. She had 2 sets of Kanpon-diesels of 6.000hp and she belonged to the I-6 class, of which 9 were built. Speed was 17/9 knots (surface/submerged) Crew 108 officers and men. Launched at the Kawasaki Shipyard on Kobe and commissioned 14 March 1945.
The I-14 surrendered 200 miles south East of Yokosuka on 27 August 1945.
Source: The Imperial Japanese Navy by A J Watts & B G Gordon London 1971.
Contributed by Piet Snijers Log Book May 1996.
Grenada Grenadines SG1986 (I do not have the stamp)
Her dimensions are Length 356 3/4ft. Beam 29 3/4ft. Draught 14/1/2ft (mean) Displacement 1950/2600 tons. Armament Two 5.5". 2 machine guns and Six 21" torpedo tubes. She could also transport a sea-plane. She had 2 sets of Kanpon-diesels of 6.000hp and she belonged to the I-6 class, of which 9 were built. Speed was 17/9 knots (surface/submerged) Crew 108 officers and men. Launched at the Kawasaki Shipyard on Kobe and commissioned 14 March 1945.
The I-14 surrendered 200 miles south East of Yokosuka on 27 August 1945.
Source: The Imperial Japanese Navy by A J Watts & B G Gordon London 1971.
Contributed by Piet Snijers Log Book May 1996.
Grenada Grenadines SG1986 (I do not have the stamp)