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Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai class cruiser submarine of the KD3A sub class

I 58, later I 158, was an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser submarine of the KD3A sub class commissioned in 1928. During World War II, she supported Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya in December 1941 and was instrumental in tracking Force Z, the two British capital ships that attempted to intercept the Japanese invasion forces, so they could be sunk by torpedo bombers. She sank four Dutch merchant ships in early 1942 during the Dutch East Indies campaign and then was transferred to the Central Pacific in May 1942 to support the fleet during the Battle of Midway in early June 1942. Upon her return to Japan in July 1942, she became a training ship until early 1945 when she was modified to serve as a carrier for kaiten manned suicide attack torpedoes. She surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war and was scuttled in 1946.

The submarines of the KD3A sub class were the first Japanese designed cruiser submarines, based on experience with earlier designs based on British and German cruiser submarines. They displaced surfaced and submerged. They were long and had a beam of and a draft of They had a diving depth of and a complement of 60 officers and crewmen. For surface running, the submarines were powered by two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When they were submerged, a electric motor drive each propeller. They could reach on the surface and submerged. On the surface, the KD3As had a range of at ; submerged, they had a range of at
The submarines had eight internal torpedo tubes, six in the bow and two in the stern. They carried one reload for each tube for a total of 16 torpedoes. They also had one deck gun.

Built by the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal at Yokosuka, Japan, I 58 was laid down on 3 December 1924. She was launched on 3 October 1925 and she was assigned to the new division that day. They departed Takao on 13 July 1933 and again trained in Chinese waters before arriving in Tokyo Bay on 21 August 1933. She apparently again went into reserve at Kure sometime after completing this cruise. – with one torpedo in her engine room, killing 12 men there, then sank her with gunfire at but her surviving crew of 79 men abandoned ship in her other three whaleboats, I 58 then closed to of the swamped lifeboat and machine gunned it as well. Seventy nine men died in the machine gunning of the three lifeboats, one of whom had clung to one of the submarine′s diving planes. in broken English, demanding information on Langkoeas′s identity, departure port, cargo, and destination and on secret Allied codes and signals, threatening them with punishment after each question if they withheld information. On 7 January 1942, they drifted ashore on Bawean, where local fishermen found them and summoned help. but one source claims that all on board died in the sinking and suggests that those who survived the sinking itself may have been massacred by I 58′s crew. On 28 February 1942, I 58 torpedoed the British 6,735 gross register ton tanker in the Indian Ocean south of the Sunda Strait at ". She operated in a patrol line between and which also included the submarines Japanese submarine I 156, Japanese submarine I 157, Japanese submarine I 159, Japanese submarine I 162, Japanese submarine I 165, and Japanese submarine I 166. The Japanese suffered a decisive defeat on 4 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway, and that day the commander in chief of the 6th Fleet, Vice Admiral Teruhisa Komatsu, ordered the 15 submarines in the Japanese submarine patrol line to move westward. The Japanese struck her from the navy list on 30 November 1945. She moved to Sasebo and in March 1946 was stripped of all usable equipment. The Commander, Naval Activities, Japan, U. S. Navy Vice Admiral Robert H. Griffin, came aboard I 158 to inspect her in March 1946.

On 26 March 1946, the U. S. Navy received orders to sink all captured Japanese submarines. On 1 April 1946, the U. S. Navy submarine tender Nereus towed I 157 from Sasebo to an area off the Gotō Islands, where she was one of a number of Japanese submarines scuttled that day in Operation Road's End. She sank at .