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2005-03-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Giant Japanese WWII sub discovered near Oahu

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Posted by Dar 2005-03-22 10:22:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 400 ft of diesel powered chrysanthemum power! I'd really like to see one.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-22 10:46:39 AM|| 2005-03-22 10:46:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's a little info.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-22 10:48:29 AM|| 2005-03-22 10:48:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Right after Figure 14 in Shipman's link:
"The giant I-400 was taken out to sea off Oahu and torpedoed" [by the U.S. after the war].

Posted by Tom 2005-03-22 11:49:02 AM|| 2005-03-22 11:49:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like this sub (I-401) met the same fate, along with similar fates for other captured subs:

26 March 1946:
Washington, DC. At a Submarine Officer's Conference, attended by former ComSubPac Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, it is decided to dispose of all captured Japanese submarines by sinking.

31 May 1946:
The I-401 is a target ship in the Pacific off Pearl Harbor for tests of the Mark 10-3 exploder. At 1059, she sinks by the stern at 21-12N, 158-07W after being hit by two Mark-18 electric torpedoes fired by Cdr O. R. Cole's USS CABEZON (SS-334).

Posted by Dar 2005-03-22 12:33:24 PM|| 2005-03-22 12:33:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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