During the night of May 31, 1942 three Japanese Type A Midget Submarines entered Sydney Harbor in a darring attack.

For simplicity, they are most often referred to by the hull number of the mother submarine.

At 10pm, she entered Sydney Harbour with two sister mini submarines the M-27 and M-22. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size. C48694. They were 23 metres long, 1.8m wide, battery powered, with a crew of 2 and carried 2 muzzle loaded 450mm dia torpedoes and a 140kg scuttling charge. Divers struck gold when they found World War II Japanese submarine. Aubrey Brown told me that the three mother submarines had been detected by No. August 2017. (AWM 305046) (AWM 305046) A surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by the Japanese 75 years ago on 31 May 1942, was a wake-up call which resulted in fear and panic in the nation’s largest and oldest city.
On 31 May 31, 1942, M-24 was silently launched from the deck of the Japanese submarine "mother ship", the I-24. On the night of 31 May 1942 three Japanese midget submarines entered Sydney harbour. Japanese Edit. Sydney Harbour Circa 1942 . The Type A Ko-hyoteki (甲標的甲型, Kō-hyōteki kō-gata, Target 'A', Type 'A') class was a class of Japanese midget submarines (Ko-hyoteki) used during World War II.They had hull numbers but no names. (Photo: Australian War Memorial). One became entangled in the boom net across the harbour, and her occupants blew her up. Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney. The wreck of one of the Japanese midget submarines in recovered from Sydney Harbour after the attack in May 1942. Japanese Attack Sydney Harbour. That night, the harbour was full of allied naval vessels and the midget submarines were on a mission to inflict maximum damage. The Japanese midget submarines were modified several times. This is a Fine Molds 1/72 scale assembly kit featuring a precision scale model of a Japanese Type 'A' Target-class midget submarine that participated in the attack of Sydney Harbor on 24 May, 1942. After circling Sydney Harbour the aircraft returned to its submarine, By Nicole Hasham.
It was the first attack on Sydney and its impact changed Australia from a quiet backwater of the Second World War to a vital springboard for the defeat of Japan.

Japanese midget submarines carried out torpedo attacks during WWII at Pearl Harbor, Sydney, and Diego Suarez in Madagascar. Japanese midget submarine No. On 29 May 1942 five large Japanese I Class submarines rendezvoused some 35 nautical miles northeast of the entrance to Sydney Harbour. The Coffin Boats: Japanese Midget Submarine Operations in the Second World War by Peggy Warner and Sadao Seno Leo Cooper, 1986, 206 pages. The Coffin Boats: Japanese Midget Submarine Operations in the Second World War by Peggy Warner and Sadao Seno Leo Cooper, 1986, 206 pages. Seventy-five years ago, under the cover of darkness, three Japanese midget submarines snuck into Sydney harbour and launched an attack that would bring the Second World War to city's doorstep. Each had a 46 ton midget submarine clamped to its afterdeck.

For over 60 years one of the greatest Australian wartime and maritime mysteries was the whereabouts of the third and last Japanese midget submarine, which invaded Sydney Harbour on the evening of 31 May 1942. 23 Radar Station … Japanese midget subs were also used to attack Sydney Bay and off Madagascar during May 1942. Sydney Midget Submarine Discovery Team Returning from 60 Mintues Report Dive (L to R) Greg Kearns, Dave Arnold, Alan Simon, Paul Baggott, Ton Hay, Dave Muir, Liam (60 minutes) and Phil Hendrie. Not a gigantic fish: Japanese midget submarine M-22 being raised from Taylor’s Bay, Sydney, June 10, 1942.

The Japanese mother submarines I-22, I-24 and I-27 left Truk Lagoon on 18 May 1942 and headed south between Rabaul and Solomon Islands. 21, which took part in the raid being raised from the harbour bow first. Imperial Japanese Navy Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour, 31 May-1 June 1942. Japanese submarine attack 1942 On the night of 31 May 1942, three midget submarines, each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted unsuccessfully to sink … The Japanese Type A Kō-hyōteki-class submarines that attacked Sydney in May 1942 were the same as those used in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December 1941.

August 1, 2017. At 10pm, she entered Sydney Harbour with … The midget submarines could be carried on any of the large I class submarines, designed for that purpose, so their classification was often different to that of the submarine, which carried them to their destination. Japanese Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour 31 May 1942 On the afternoon of 31 May 1942 three large Japanese submarines, all type “C” long – range cruiser vessels, lay about 13 km off Sydney Harbour in preparation for one of the most audacious strikes ever made against homeland Australia.