Japanese submarine Ro-60

History
Japan
Name	Submarine No. 59
Builder	Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	5 December 1921
Launched	22 December 1922
Completed	17 September 1923
Commissioned	17 September 1923
Renamed	Ro-60 on 1 November 1924
Decommissioned	10 February 1928
Recommissioned	20 September 1928
Decommissioned	1 June 1934
Recommissioned	15 October 1940
Fate	Wrecked 29 December 1941
Stricken	15 February 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Type L4 (Ro-60-class) submarine
Displacement	988 long tons (1,004 t) (surfaced) 1,301 tons (1,322 t) (submerged)
Length	78.39 m (257 ft 2 in)
Beam	7.41 m (24 ft 4 in)
Draft	3.96 m (13 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	2 × Vickers diesels, 2 shafts 2,400 bhp (1,790 kW) (surfaced), 1,600 shp (1,193 kW) (submerged), 75 tons fuel
Speed	15.7 knots (29.1 km/h) (surfaced) 8.6 knots (15.9 km/h) (submerged)
Range	5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) (surfaced) 80 nautical miles (150 km) at 5.7 knots (10.6 km/h) (submerged)
Test depth	60 m (200 ft)
Complement	48
Armament	6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (6 × bow) 12 × 6th Year Type torpedoes 1 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 naval gun 1 × 6.5 mm machine gun

Ro-60, originally named Submarine No. 59, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Type L submarine of the L4 subclass. She was in commission from 1923 to 1934 and from 1940 to 1941. Before World War II, she served in the waters of Japan. During World War II, she took part in the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941, and was damaged by a F4F-3 Wildcat during that battle. The submarine wrecked three weeks later trying to make it back to base, running aground on a reef and was abandoned. All of the crew was rescued by a Japanese vessel. Later in the war the vessel exploded after being strafed, scattering fragments of the vessel on that reef.