NOT “SUICIDE CRAFT”
MIDGET JAP. SUBMARINES
NEW LIGHT ON THEIR DESIGN
Japanese midget submarines recently sunk in Sydney Harbour were not ‘‘suicide” craft, as at first thought, Part of the elaborate machinery was designed so that the crew could return, and they had signalling apparatus to identify themselves after a successful operation.
Though efforts had been made in constructing’ the submarines to give their crews a chance to save their lives, the chance was not more than 100 to one.
The mudget submarines were a really good job, if a very complicated one, and were effective engines of destruction when used with a mother submarine.
Rear-Admiral Muirhead-Gould, in charge of naval establishments in Sydney, revealed this recently, in opening the public exhibition of the submarines and in a talk to the Legacy Club.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3177, 2 October 1942, Page 7
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