Midget submarine

Bulkhead · 11-04-07, 11:42 AM

Didnt they attack any US ports in the war? Or more accurate, the ships in the port...

Torplexed · 11-04-07, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulkhead

Didnt they attack any US ports in the war? Or more accurate, the ships in the port...

They participated in the Pearl Harbor raid that started the war. It was a midget submarine creeping in that resulted in the first US shots of the Pacific war when the USS Ward spotted her and attacked. None of the midget subs hit anything although at least one did get in and try. USS Monaghan rammed it in the East Loch. The US also got it's first prisoner of war when one of them washed up on a Oahu beach. They also were also used to raid Sydney, Australia and Diego Suarez, Madagascar in 1942. Not to much efffect again. I think they sank a old barracks ships in the Sydney raid.

NiclDoe · 11-04-07, 07:57 PM

If you use a torp they just fly all the way to Japan.

MorganThePirate · 11-04-07, 08:06 PM

Five Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarines were used in the 1941attack on Pearl Harbor, in which the type 97 torpedo was used operationally. One of these five midget submarines was shot and sunk by the USS Ward as it was spotted trying to enter Pearl Harbor. The wreckage of the submarine was located by NOAA's Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) in August 2002.
Photographic analysis conducted by the United States Naval Institute in 1999 indicates one of the five Ko-hyoteki-class submarines managed to enter Pearl Harbor, and successfully fired a torpedo into theUSS West Virginia. The submarine's final resting place is unknown. Good fishing......

Torplexed · 11-04-07, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MorganThePirate

Photographic analysis conducted by the United States Naval Institute in 1999 indicates one of the five Ko-hyoteki-class submarines managed to enter Pearl Harbor, and successfully fired a torpedo into theUSS West Virginia. The submarine's final resting place is unknown. Good fishing......

Actually they found and raised it not long after the attack. You can see the effect of the destroyer Monaghen's ramming in this photograph. The dimples on the hull were caused by depth charges.

11-04-07, 11:42 AM	#1
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11-04-07, 08:06 PM	#4
MorganThePirate Mate Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: On battle stations in sunny AZ Posts: 54 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Midget Subs Five Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarines were used in the 1941attack on Pearl Harbor, in which the type 97 torpedo was used operationally. One of these five midget submarines was shot and sunk by the USS Ward as it was spotted trying to enter Pearl Harbor. The wreckage of the submarine was located by NOAA's Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) in August 2002. Photographic analysis conducted by the United States Naval Institute in 1999 indicates one of the five Ko-hyoteki-class submarines managed to enter Pearl Harbor, and successfully fired a torpedo into theUSS West Virginia. The submarine's final resting place is unknown. Good fishing......