SENSUIKAN!
IJN Submarine HA-206:
Tabular Record of Movement
© 2006 Bob Hackett & Sander Kingsepp
1945:
Tanagawa. Laid down at Kawasaki's Senshu Yard as a Sensuikan Taka Sho (Fast Small Submarine), (STS) Type.
10 July 1945:
Launched and numbered HA-206.
2 September 1945: The Surrender of Japan:
Abandoned at the Senshu Yard when 90 percent complete.
25 August 1945:
The hulk of HA-206 is caught in a typhoon and sinks.
April 1946:
The wreck of HA-206 is raised.
6 May 1946:
Off the Kii Suido. The wreck of HA-206 is scuttled.
1952:
The wreck is refloated, then scrapped under Allied supervision at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Yard.
Authors' Notes:
Special thanks for help in preparing this TROM go to Dr. Higuchi Tatsuhiro of Japan.
– Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp.
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