Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Japanese midget sub

[Marc de Piolenc <piolenc@archivale.com>]

The Ko-Hyoteki is amazing, isn't it?

It was designed at a time when the Japanese expected to meet the 
American fleet in deep water and fight a Jutland-type engagement. Its 
job was to be dropped off a tender and to move AHEAD of the Jap fleet, 
submerged, engaging the Americans while the two fleets were still 
outside of gun range, to whittle down the Americans and even things up 
prior to the main engagement.

After Yamamoto decided on the carrier attack on Pearl, they were 
repurposed to attack harbors and anchorages. Despite their superb 
underwater performance, they had no success at that.

Marc

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On 2/25/2011 11:33 AM, JimToddPsub@aol.com wrote:
> /National Museum of the Pacific War/ in Fredericksburg, Texas, houses
> the Japanese midget sub that ran aground during the attack on Pearl
> Harbor in 1941. I was surprised to learn that this "midget" is nearly 80
> feet long and is powered by a 600 hp electric motor. The contra-rotating
> props are almost 4.5 feet in diameter.
> Sorry I didn't get a full-length shot. The museum was about to close and
> they were running us out a little early. -Jim



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