Sensuikan I-124 – A History of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Submarine Sunk in Northern Territory

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Title: Sensuikan I-124 – A History of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Submarine Sunk in Northern Territory Waters

Author: Dr Lewis, Tom

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1997

ISBN: 0646322184

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 131 pages

Comments: The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Together, these 80-man boats laid mines, and then waited in their killing zones for targets to torpedo.

On 20 January 1942, it all went horribly wrong. Sunk with all hands, the submarine I-124 remains outside Darwin today, testimony to bravery but also to folly.

This historic Japanese submarine lies on the bottom of the Timor Sea and has been protected under the Commonwealth Historic Shipwreck Act, the only enemy vessel to have been so declared. Controversy surrounds the submarine – its war operations, subsequent salvage attempts and now Australian government protection.