The view of the deck gun of the Italian submarine Jantina that was sunk during World War II by the British submarine HMS Torbay, south of the island of Mykonos, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, November 3, 2021. Only six sailors managed to swim to safety to the island of Dilo, he said. The Grayback went down with 80 U.S.The ship sank on July 5, 1941, with 48 crewmembers aboard after being hit by torpedoes fired by the British sub HMS Torbay in the Aegean Sea, Thoctarides said.It did not return to the Midway naval base by March 7 and was listed as missing and presumed lost with all hands on March 30.It was ordered to return home from patrol On Februthe Grayback transmitted her final report saying it sunk one Japanese tanker and severely damaged another.On Februthe Grayback radioed that it sunk two enemy cargo ships on the 19th and damaged two others.She sailed from Pearl Harbor on Januto patrol the East China Sea.The Grayback’s first World War II patrol was on February 15 to April 10 in 1942.The Tambor-class diesel-electric submarine was 307ft long and weighted 1,475 tons.Grayback SS-208, a submarine used in WWII off the coast of Japan, was found after it went missing 75 years ago “It was mistranslated after post-WWII, and they changed one number - an 8 to a 6 - and our Japanese translator re-translated it, found it, put us 100 miles to a different area.” “The numbers that came out were wrong, and that’s how we found it,” Taylor said. Researchers eventually found one digit was off, which had sent explorers 100 miles in the wrong direction. Part of the reason the submarine was lost for so many years, officials say, was because Japanese records on the sinking were not translated correctly. “With the technology that we’re using, and the ability to cover large swaths of ground, we’re looking at the potential to find several more.” “We do not tell people that we’re looking for these because we don’t want to disappoint people, and we don’t want to blast it across the Internet until its done properly through the Navy,” Taylor told ABC News. They said they’ve found five submarines so far. The husband and wife duo said they are trying to find all 52 submarines that have sunk and were never found, as part of the Lost 52 Project. “Then you realize there are 80 men buried there, and it’s a sobering experience.”įollowing the discovery in June, Taylor and Dennison spent months searching for relatives of its crew who perished.

Everyone was excited,” Taylor told The Washington Post. The search ended when they spotted an anomaly on the ocean floor five months ago and high-definition cameras subsequently confirmed the vessel’s identity when they captured a gold plaque with the words USS Grayback. Private explorers Tim Taylor and Christine Dennison found the Grayback in June and made the announcement Monday, on Veterans Day. The ship is credited with sinking 14 enemy ships before it was torpedoed. sailors when it sank in the waters south of Okinawa in February 1944. submarine off the coast of Japan that sank during World War II. (by Nicholas Sakelaris, UPI and ABC News) - Undersea explorers said they have found a long-lost U.S.

Missing submarine with 80 sailors found