Completed and commissioned in August 1945 only eleven days before hostilities ended in World War II, and was deliberately run aground by her crew that month.

[1] For surface running, the submarines were powered by a single 400-brake-horsepower (298 kW) diesel engine that drove one propeller shaft.

[2] On the morning of 12 August, she got back underway on the next leg of her voyage, waiting off Mutsure Island while her next anchorage in the Moji Bight was swept for mines.

[2] The explosion blew two of her lookouts overboard, started a fire aft and a minor leak in her main ballast tanks, and brought her to a halt.

[2] A minesweeper arrived and towed her to Mitsubishi′s Hikoshima Shipyard at Shimonoseki, where she unloaded the two Type 95 torpedoes she had aboard.

[2] At 12:00 that day, Emperor Hirohito announced in a radio broadcast that hostilities between Japan and the Allies had ended.