SENSUIKAN!
(Type D1 submarine by Takeshi Yuki)
IJN Submarine I-364: Tabular Record of
Movement
© 2001-2014 Bob Hackett & Sander Kingsepp
Revision 3
26 July 1943:
Kobe. Laid down at Mitsubishi's Kobe Yard as
a Type D1 "Tei-gata"
transport submarine No. 5464.
20 October 1943:
Renumbered I-364 and provisionally attached to
Yokosuka Naval District.
15 February 1944:
Launched.
30 April 1944:
Lt (promoted LtCdr 15 October; Cdr, posthumously) Makino
Takeo (64)(former torpedo officer of I-36) is appointed the Chief Equipping
Officer (CEO).
14 June 1944:
I-364 is completed, commissioned in the IJN and attached
to Yokosuka Naval District. Lt Makino Takeo is the CO. Assigned to SubRon 11 for
working-up.
6 September 1944:
I-364 is assigned to Rear Admiral Owada Noboru's
(former CO of YAMASHIRO) SubRon 7.
14 September 1944:
Departs Yokosuka for Wake Island on her maiden voyage
with a crew of 77 aboard. Her estimated time of arrival at Wake is "late
September."
16 September 1944:
250 miles E of the Boso Peninsula. I-364 is running
on the surface on the base course 090, making 9.5 knots. At 0432, LtCdr R. E.
Styles' USS SEA DEVIL (SS-400), also on her first patrol, picks up I-364 on
radar. Styles begins tracking and identifies his target as an I-58 class
submarine with a large Rising Sun insignia painted on the side of her conning
tower.
At dawn, I-364 commences zigzagging, while SEA DEVIL makes an approach.
At 1,800 yards, just when I-364 is passing in front of him at 0545, Styles fires
four Mk. 18-2 torpedoes. Two hit and sink I-364 at 34-30N, 145-23E. A large pall
of brown smoke is sighted where the target was. [1]
31 October 1944:
Presumed lost with all hands.
10 December 1944:
Removed from the Navy List.
Authors' Note:
[1] Older sources have identified SEA DEVIL's target as
RO-42, in reality lost in June of that year.
Special thanks go to Dr. Higuchi Tatsuhiro of Japan.
– Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp.
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