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I-16 submarine

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:57 pm

The stamp gives Type C (I-16) which was launched in July 1938.
She was built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, Kobe, Japan for the Japanese Imperial Navy.
15 September 1937 launched.
28 July 1938 launched as the I-16 one of the Hei-gata class type of which 5 boats were built.
Displacement 2,254 tons surfaced, 3,561 ton submerged, dim. 109.2 x 9.14 x 5.18m. (draught) surfaced.
Two diesel engines, 12,400 hp, speed 23.5 knots and two electric motors 2,000 hp, speed 8 knots.
Range by a speed of 16 knots, surfaced, 14,000 mile.
Armament 1 – 14cm deck-gun and 8 – 533mm torpedo tubes forward, carried 20 torpedoes.
She carried a midget submarine.
Crew 101
30 March 1940 commissioned, where after she was towed to the Kure Navy Yard where she was completed.
After completing a unit in the Advance Expeditionary Fleet and put in the special attack unit for the Pearl Harbor Operation.
On November 17, 1941 officers of the Special Attack Unit are briefed on the Hawaii Operation. The I-24 is assigned to Captain Sasaki Hankyu's Special Attack Unit with the I-16, I-18, I-20 and the flagship, the I-22.

On December 7, 1941 the I-16 was seven miles SSW of the entrance to Pearl Harbor. The I-16 launches a Type A Midget submarine piloted by Lt (j.g.) Yokoyama Masaharu with PO2C Ueda Sadamu. Afterwards, I-16 patrols west of Lanai, Hawaii and receives the message "Tora, tora, tora!" message from Lt Yokoyama about the successful air attack.
On January 13, 1943, I-16 arrives at Cape Esperance, carrying a cargo of supply drums. Because enemy planes patrolling over the area, no Daihatsu barge is dispatched to meet her. The I-16's cargo is abandoned and the submarine returns to Rabaul.
On January 25, 1943, the I-16 arrives at Cape Esperance on her second supply run to Guadalcanal, releasing 18-tons of supplies in an Unkato (cargo transporting tube) and evacuates some Japanese including Lieutenant Commander Kenji Mitsui.

On May 19, 1944 the I-16 was 140 miles NE of Cape Alexander, Solomons and was sighted on the surface by an American aircraft, The USS ENGLAND, RABY and the GEORGE conduct a line-abreast sonar sweep. At 1335, the ENGLAND finds the I-16 on her sonar.
At 1341, the sub was attacked five times with twenty-four throw-ahead Mark 10 "hedgehog" projector charges. The hedgehogs hit on the second and fifth attacks. At 1435, after the fifth attack, a huge underwater explosion lifts the ENGLAND's fantail out of the water by 6-inches as the I-16 explodes and sinks with all hands aboard.
The explosion must have been at 500 feet or deeper because it is 20 minutes before the first debris appears. Shreds of cork, deck planking, pieces of cabinets and other objects appear. Finally, a sealed rubber container with a bag of rice inside surfaces. Almost an hour later, a small oil slick appears. By the following day, the slick is three miles wide and six miles long. On June 25, 1944 the sub was presumed lost with all aboard
She sank three vessels and damaged 1 during her wartime career.

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http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/subs/I-16.html http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-16.htm
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