An item referred to CNO 14 December reporting that the at Hawaii captured Japanese two man submarine had as dimensions 41 x 5 feet, height conning tower 4.6 feet, thickness hull plates 0.25”, speed 21 (actual)-4 to 24.31 (design) knots, range of 175 nautical miles/5 knots, 85 nautical miles/10 and 18 nautical miles/20 knots; all speeds surface. Propulsion consisted of electric batteries and motors. Fitted out with periscope, radio transmitter and receiver, gro, magnetic compasses, listening gear, 2-45.72cm/18 torpedoes and 300 pound TNT under stern hooked up to batteries for a suicide attack.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration) mr0422a. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 6 Dated 16 December 1941.
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