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The second I-53 was the second of three Type C cruiser submarines of the C3 sub-class built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.Commissioned in February 1944, she operated primarily as a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier during the final year of World War II and sank the destroyer escort USS Underhill (DE-682).
I-53 got underway from Sasebo, Japan, on 29 June 1933 with the other submarines of her squadron — I-54 and I-55 of Submarine Division 18 and Submarine Division 19′s I-56, I-57 and I-58 — for a training cruise off China and Mako in the Pescadores Islands, which the submarines concluded with their arrival at Takao, Formosa, on 5 July 1933.
Constructed between 1917 and 1920, Type F1 (F1型) (Ro-1-class) submarines were the first truly oceangoing Japanese submarines and the earliest to be rated as "second-class" or "medium" submarines. The Fiat-Laurenti-designed submarines had weak hulls, and they did not serve as the basis for future Japanese submarine classes. [13] Ro-1 ...
I-53 or Japanese submarine I-53 may refer to more than one submarine: Japanese submarine I-53, an Imperial Japanese Navy Type KD3 submarine launched in 1925 and decommissioned in 1945, renumbered I-153 in 1942; Japanese submarine I-53, an Imperial Japanese Navy Type C submarine launched in 1942 and decommissioned in 1945
The U.S. had the largest and most powerful submarine force of all the Allied countries in the Pacific at the outbreak of war. [citation needed] Pre-war U.S. Navy doctrine—like that of all major navies—specified that the main role of submarines was to support the surface fleet by conducting reconnaissance and attacking large enemy warships.
The U.S. Navy found the fort to be attractive after tests had shown that it was an outstanding location to eavesdrop on radio communication transmitted from the Far East, chiefly Japan. In August 1939, the U.S. Navy relocated the Astoria, Oregon, intercept site to Fort Ward. This was the beginning of the development of Fort Ward as a top-secret ...
Parshall, Jon; Hackett, Bob and Kingsepp, Sander. Imperial Japanese Navy Page: IJN Submarine I-17: Tabular Record of Movement. Retrieved 7/4/2010; Webber, Bert. Silent Siege: Japanese Attacks Against North America in World War II, Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, Washington, 1984 ISBN 0-87770-315-9 (hardcover). ISBN 0-87770-318-3; Tompkins, Walker ...
A Japanese midget submarine grounded on Oahu Beach, Hawaii, 1941. Japanese submarines in the Pacific War consisted of 176 boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the war Japanese submarines sank two US aircraft carriers, a cruiser and numerous other warships. Later they became used to resupply isolated island garrisons.