![]() I-17 sighted the 10,169 ton Panamanian-flagged tanker Stanvac Manila. She then sailed to Lae and disembarked her 155 passengers. The following day, I-17 rescued another 118 soldiers and four sailors. Several hours later, I-17 resurfaced and picked up 33 surviving soldiers. The PT boats then sank the lifeboats with machine gun fire and depth charges. I-17 crash dived as the PT boats strafed and fired torpedoes at her. On 5 March two PT boats, PT-143 and PT-150, discovered I-17 with three lifeboats full of survivors from the Bismarck Sea battle. ![]() The Japanese in lifeboats, rafts and in the water were strafed by planes and PT boats. All of the eight transports and cargo vessels in the convoy and four of the eight escorting destroyers were sunk. On 2 March 1943 in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a Japanese convoy carrying troops to Lae was bombed and strafed by USAAF and Royal Australian Air Force planes for three successive days. In November 1942, I-17 's 14 cm deck gun was removed and she set out for Guadalcanal on the first of many supply missions. In early June 1942, I-17 took part in the opening stages of the Aleutian Islands campaign. I-17 - This battle was the result of panic created by I-17 's attack on During a 30-minute fusillade, guns hurled 1,440 rounds of 3-inch (76 mm) and 37 mm ammunition into the night sky at a supposed enemy aircraft, and about ten tons of shrapnel and unexploded ammunition fell back on the city. The following night, the anti-aircraft defenses in Los Angeles exploded into action in response to an imagined invasion (later to be known as the Battle of Los Angeles. The shelling did only minor damage to a pier and a pumphouse, but news of the shelling triggered an "invasion" scare along the West Coast. The closest shell exploded in a field 30 yards (27 m) from one of the tanks. The shots were mostly wild, one landing more than a mile inland. Over 20 minutes, she fired 17 shells from her 14 cm gun at the giant Richfield aviation fuel storage tanks on the blufftop behind the beach. A few minutes after 7 pm, she surfaced a few hundred yards off a beach 10 miles (16 km) west of Santa Barbara, California, within the Ellwood Oil Field. On 23 February, I-17 achieved some notability as the first Axis ship to shell the United States mainland in an incident known as the Bombardment of Ellwood. I-17 then headed north along the coast of California. continent Īt night on 19 February 1942, I-17 covertly landed on Point Loma, San Diego to determine her position after arriving from Kwajalein Atoll. A scheduled shelling of American coastal cities on Christmas Eve of 1941 was canceled because of the frequency of coastal air and surface patrols. The tanker drifted north onto rocks off Crescent City, California where the wreck remained until scrapped in 1959. The tanker was within sight of land, and survivors reached the Blunt Reef lightship in lifeboats. I-17 hit the tanker with five 14-centimeter (5.5 in) shells in the early afternoon of 20 December 1941. The 6,912-ton General Petroleum tanker SS Emidio was sailing in ballast from Seattle, Washington en route to San Pedro, California. I-17 proceeded to a patrol station off Cape Mendocino following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Its mission was to reconnoiter and engage any ships that tried to sortie from Pearl Harbor. She later supported the Imperial Japanese Army in fighting around the Solomon Islands and remained active in the southwest Pacific until she was sunk in August 1943.ĭuring the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, I-17 patrolled north of Oahu. This long-range submarine cruiser spent the early months of the war in the eastern Pacific and was the first Axis ship to shell the continental United States. I-17 was a Japanese B1 type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy which saw service during World War II. 1 × 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun (removed November 1942).Sunk on 19 August 1943 by HMNZS Tui (T234) and US Kingfisher float-planesġ4,000 nautical miles (25,928 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h) ![]() 1941 1st class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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