Lost 52 Project

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The Lost 52 Project is a private organization founded by Tim Taylor to do research on the 52 U.S. Navy submarines lost on patrol during the Second World War, performing discovery, exploration, and underwater archeology where possible.^[1]^[2]

Found, so far:^[3]^[4]^[5]


Submarines	Date lost	Circumstances of loss	Date found
USS S-36	21 January 1942	Scuttled after striking Taka Bakang reef near Sulawesi	13 May 2001
USS Lagarto	4 May 1945	Depth charged by Japanese escort ships while attacking a convoy in the Gulf of Thailand	May 2005
USS Grunion	30 July 1942	Sank after torpedo and dive plane malfunction near Kiska	August 2006
USS Wahoo	11 October 1943	Sunk after combined aerial bombing and surface depth charging in the La Pérouse Strait	31 October 2006
USS Perch	3 March 1942	Depth charged on 1 March, partially repaired, then scuttled after being fired upon on the surface to prevent falling into enemy hands near Surabaya	23 November 2006
USS Flier	13 August 1944	Struck a mine and sunk in the Balabac Strait	1 February 2009
USS R-12	12 June 1943	Sank due to flooding from unknown causes in forward battery compartment near Key West	25 May 2011
USS S-26	24 January 1942	Sank after collision with Sub chaser PC-460 in the Gulf of Panama	September 2014
USS S-28	4 July 1944	Sank under unknown circumstances near Oahu	20 September 2017
USS Robalo	26 July 1944	Presumed to have struck a Japanese mine near Palawan Island	May 2019
USS Stickleback	29 May 1958	Sank after collision with USS Silverstein during training near Hawaii	August 2019
USS Grayback	27 February 1944	Sunk by aerial bomb from Japanese B5N torpedo bomber in the East China Sea	10 November 2019
USS S-35	4 April 1946	Used as a target ship and sunk by torpedo fire	4 August 2020
USS Harder	24 August 1944	Depth charged by Japanese escort ships while attacking them near Dasol Bay	May 2024

The organization has not limited itself to discovery of submarines. It has also located other Navy ships:


Ship	Date Lost	Circumstances of loss	Date found
USS Mannert L. Abele	12 April 1945	Struck by kamikaze plane and Japanese flying suicide bomb during the Battle of Okinawa	December 2022

References

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^ Lost 52 Project
^ United States Submarine Losses
^ US Navy validates final resting place of WWII submarine S-28.
^ "7th WWII Submarine Discovered by Explorer Tim Taylor's 'Lost 52 Project'". PR Newswire. Cision. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
^ "Veteran ocean explorer discovers WWII submarine in South China Sea". NBC News. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2024.

External links

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