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I-52 (伊号第五二潜水艦 (伊52), I Gō Dai Gojūni Sensuikan (I Gojūni), I-52 submarine (I-52)), code-named Momi (樅, "fir tree") was a Type C3 cargo submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy used during World War II for a secret mission to Lorient, France, then occupied by Germany, during which she was sunk.
The Type C3 submarine (巡潜丙型改潜水艦, Junsen Hei-gata kai sensuikan, "Cruiser submarine type C modified"), also called I-52-class submarine (伊五十二型潜水艦, I-go-jū-ni-gata sensuikan) were operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Mitsubishi Corporation, between 1943 and 1944, as cargo carriers.
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-52 may refer to one of the following submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy: 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
I-52 (伊号第五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-go-jyuni sensuikan), later I-152 (伊号第百五十二潜水艦, I-go dai-hyaku-go-jyuni sensuikan), was the second prototype of the Kaidai-class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 15 October, the first team of USN divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit ONE (MDSU-1) began assessing the sunken vessel. Working in low- to zero-visibility conditions, 66 MDSU-1 and 30 Japanese JMSDF divers from the submarine rescue ship JS Chihaya conducted 526 dives over 29 days, searching the wreck. Ōnishi, relatives of some of the ...
The two SH-60 patrol helicopters were conducting anti-submarine exercises on Saturday night near Torishima in the remote Izu island group, off the southern coast of central Japan. Defense Minister ...
I-68, later renumbered I-168, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai–type cruiser submarine [1] of the KD6 sub-class commissioned in 1934. She served in World War II, operating in support of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and taking part in the Battle of Midway, the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Aleutian Islands campaign before she was sunk in 1943.