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Class overview
Name
Type L submarines
Builders
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-Kōbe Shipyard
Operators
Imperial Japanese Navy
Subclasses
Type L1 (Ro-51-class)
Type L2 (Ro-53-class)
Type L3 (Ro-57-class)
Type L4 (Ro-60 -class)
Built
1918-1927
In commission
1920-1945
The Type L submarine (L型潜水艦, L-gata Sensuikan) submarines were medium-sized submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during the 1920s and World War II. The Type L submarines were built with Vickers naval technical guidance. All boats were built in the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-Kobe Shipyard by the contract with Vickers.
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