Japanese submarine I-185

Sister ship I-176 at sea, 1942
History
Empire of Japan
Name	submarine No. 163
Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yokosuka, Japan
Laid down	9 February 1942
Renamed	I-85 on unknown date I-185 on 20 May 1942
Launched	16 September 1943
Completed	23 September 1943
Fate	Sunk 22 June 1944
Stricken	10 September 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Kaidai type, KD7-class
Displacement	1,862 t (1,833 long tons) surfaced 2,644 t (2,602 long tons) submerged
Length	105.5 m (346 ft 2 in)
Beam	8.25 m (27 ft 1 in)
Draft	4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Installed power	8,000 bhp (5,966 kW) (diesel engines) 1,800 hp (1,342 kW) (electric motors)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric 2 × diesel engines 2 × electric motors
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
Range	8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) surfaced 50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged
Test depth	80 m (262 ft)
Complement	86
Armament	6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (all bow) 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) deck gun 1 × twin 25 mm (1.0 in) Type 96 AA gun

I-185 (originally I-85) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai type cruiser submarine of the KD7 sub-class commissioned in 1943. During World War II, she served in the Central and Southwest Pacific Ocean before she was sunk with all hands by an American destroyer in June 1944.