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Ordered under the Rapid Naval Armaments Supplement Programme and built by the Kure Navy Yard at Kure, Japan, I-53 was laid down on 15 May 1942 with the name Submarine No. 626. [4] She was numbered I-53 and provisionally attached to the Kure Naval District on 1 November 1942; [ 4 ] she was the second Japanese submarine of that number, the first ...
The submarines of the KD3A sub-class were the first mass-produced Japanese-designed fleet submarines. [3] Based largely on the indigenous Kaidai Type II (of which one example, I-52, was constructed) with a strengthened double hull, their design was also influenced by the largest of the German submarines in Japanese hands, U-125. [4]
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I-76/I-176 – sank USS Corvina patrolling off Truk on 16 November 1943, the only known Japanese submarine success against a US submarine – USS Snook was a probable second victim by Japanese submarines. I-176 was lost a year later off Buka Island on 16 May 1944, depth-charged by USS Franks, USS Haggard, and USS Johnston.
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
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.
Japanese submarines continued to conduct occasional attacks against allied shipping off the U.S. coast during the rest of the war. Sent to American waters in hopes of targeting warships, the submarines managed to sink only a handful of merchant ships, besides conducting a few minor attacks on shore targets.
The first chapter of David Kahn's book tells about how "Station S" intercepted the communication from Tokyo to the Japanese Ambassador that instructed him to break off negotiations just before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During World War II, a submarine net was placed across Rich Passage.