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She is also known as Japan's "Golden Submarine", because she was carrying a cargo of gold to Germany as payment for matériel and technology. There has been speculation that a peace proposal to the Allies was contained on board the I-52 as well, but this is unlikely on two counts: there is no evidence that the Japanese government was interested in peace proposals or negotiated settlements at ...
I-52 was laid down on 18 March 1942, and she was commissioned on 28 December 1943 into the 11th Submarine Squadron. After training in Japan she was selected for a Yanagi (exchange) mission to Germany. She was sunk on 24 June 1944 by aircraft from USS Bogue (CVE-9) 800 mi (1,300 km) southwest of the Azores. Her cargo consisted of rubber, gold ...
Japanese submarine I-52 (1923), a Kaidai-type submarine; renamed I-152 in May 1942; stricken from active duty in August 1942; used as a stationary training vessel through end of World War II; scrapped in 1948; Japanese submarine I-52 (1942), a Type C3-class cargo submarine; sunk on 24 June 1944 by a Grumman TBF Avenger flying from USS Bogue
The Type C Modified or Junsen Type C Modified type (丙型改 or 巡潜丙型改, (Cruiser submarine) Type C Modified) submarines (I-52-class) were submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Mitsubishi Corporation, between 1943 and 1944, as cargo carriers. They were quite long and carried a crew of up to 94 officers and ...
Japanese submarine I-3; Japanese submarine I-4; Japanese submarine I-5; Japanese submarine I-6; Japanese submarine I-7; Japanese submarine I-8; Japanese submarine I-9; Japanese submarine I-10; Japanese submarine I-11; Japanese submarine I-12; Japanese submarine I-13; Japanese submarine I-15; Japanese submarine I-16; Japanese submarine I-17 ...
Heavy casualties occurred when submarines sank large passenger ships converted into military transports, such as the Wilhelm Gustloff, that were overloaded with soldiers, prisoners, or refugees. While submarines were invented centuries ago, development of self-propelled torpedoes during the latter half of the 19th century dramatically increased ...
They planned several more submarines of the same Kaidai II design, but cancelled all of them before formally signing contracts for their construction after the arrival of seven Imperial German Navy U-boats Japan received as war reparations at the end of World War I prompted a review of Japanese submarine design concepts. [4] I-52 thus was the ...
I52 or I-52 may refer to: HMS Salisbury (I52) , a destroyer in service with the Royal Navy from 1940 to 1942 Japanese submarine I-52 , several ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy