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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
Japan's foreign minister, Yōhei Kōno, complained that U.S. officials had not provided details of the civilians' involvement, stating, "I cannot help but say it is an extremely grave situation if it were the case that the participation of civilians in the submarine's surfacing maneuver led to the accident."
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 ...
USS Corvina The only known instance of a US submarine being sunk by a Japanese submarine, sunk by Japanese submarine I-176. [13] USS Escolar Sunk 17 October 1944 by a Japanese mine. [13] USS Flier Sunk 13 August 1944 by Japanese mines. [13] USS Grampus Sunk 5 March 1943 by destroyers Minegumo and Murasame or by 958th Kōkūtai naval aircraft. [13]
Japanese submarine I-2; 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 ...
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 ...