Patrol Area 14: Us Navy World War II Submarine Patrols to the Mariana Islands by Dave Lotz

Author:Dave Lotz [Lotz, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781543446883
Google: mcpHDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B079H88T6Z
Publisher: Xlibris US
Published: 2018-01-04T21:00:00+00:00

Tambor

As the eastern sky slowly brightened on the morning of 18 April at 0530, an alert lookout perched beside the periscope shears on Tambor (SS-198, Tambor-class) sighted a small wooden trawler steaming east toward Wake. The sighting was not unexpected, as three U.S. Navy submarines—Tambor, Drum, and Sturgeon—were assigned to intercept the diesel trawler, Shinko Maru No. 3, a guardboat bringing supplies and new codebooks to the Japanese garrison on the island of Wake. A half hour later, Tambor opened fire with the five-inch gun on the guardboat and continued to fire as the range closed from five thousand to three thousand yards. After firing eighty-one rounds from the five-inch gun, Tambor shifted to rake the ship with the twenty-millimeter gun to suppress any return fire. Then four Tambor crewmen boarded a rubber boat to board the Japanese vessel, which was beginning to take on water. Initially, there was no sign of life. As the water rose in the ship, several Japanese on board were found. Seven had been killed while one, the second officer, was taken prisoner. Then the search of the vessel continued for the documents that were soon located and taken back to Tambor. Shinko Maru No. 3 was afire and sinking 367 miles west of Wake. Three days later, Tambor rendezvoused with Grouper, which was returning from patrol between Luzon and Formosa, to transfer the prisoner and captured documents.

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