SENSUIKAN!
IJN Submarine HA-216:
Tabular Record of Movement
© 2006 Bob Hackett & Sander Kingsepp
1945:
Sasebo Navy Yard. Laid down as a Sensuikan Taka Sho (Fast Small Submarine), (STS) Type.
16 August 1945:
Completed and commissioned in the IJN. Assigned to SubDiv 52 under Captain Yokota Minoru (former CO of I-26). Lt Yasoshima Keizo is appointed CO.
2 September 1945:
Sasebo. HA-216 is surrendered to the Allies.
30 November 1945:
Removed from the Navy List.
26 March 1946:
Washington, DC. At a Submarine Officer's Conference, attended by former ComSubPac Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, it is decided to dispose of all remaining captured Japanese submarines by sinking.
5 April 1946:
Off Sasebo Bay. HA-216 is scuttled by the USN with RO-31, HA-207, HA-210, HA-215, HA-217, HA-219 and HA-228.
Authors' Notes:
Special thanks for help in preparing this TROM go to Dr. Higuchi Tatsuhiro of Japan.
– Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp.
Back to Submarine
Page
