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Japanese submarine attack 1942
Japanese submarine I-22
Japanese submarine I-27
K.XII
M24
Japanese submarine attack 1942
Freestone, CA
Snelling, Douglas
K13 Submarine memorial
Docking of submarine on slave dock in Big Dock 4 October 1974
Japanese midget submarine being examined 1942
Japanese midget submarine is raised from Sydney Harbour 1942
Reminiscences of the Japanese mini submarine attack in Sydney Harbour 1942

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Submarines

Japanese submarine attack 1942

Often warned of the possibility of invasion, Sydneysiders were to experience the real thing in 1942 when three Japanese midget submarines slipped into the harbour, destroying the naval ship HMAS Kuttabul.

Japanese submarine I-22

One of the Japanese submarines which launched midget submarines to attack Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942.

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Japanese submarine I-27

One of the Japanese submarines which launched midget submarines to attack Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942.

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K.XII

Royal Netherlands Navy submarine which escaped Indonesia in 1942 to continue the war effort in Australian waters.

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M24

Japanese Imperial Navy midget submarine of the type which entered Sydney Harbour in 1942.

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Japanese submarine attack 1942

On the night of 31 May 1942, three midget submarines, each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted unsuccessfully to sink Allied warships anchored near Garden Island.

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Freestone, CA

Submariner and businessman whose donation made possible the memorial to all submarines and their crews lost between 1914 and 1955.

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Snelling, Douglas

Architect and designer of houses and furniture. He also designed the K13 Submarine Memorial in Carlingford.

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K13 Submarine memorial

Carlingford memorial commemorating HMS K13, a submarine which sank in a fatal accident in 1917.

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Docking of submarine on slave dock in Big Dock 4 October 1974

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By
Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Proprietary Limited
Contributed By
National Archives of Australia
[C3298, 25]

Japanese midget submarine being examined 1942

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Image courtesy of the
State Library of Victoria
[H98.104/61]
(Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs)

Japanese midget submarine is raised from Sydney Harbour 1942

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Image courtesy of the
State Library of Victoria
[H98.104/871]
(Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs)

Reminiscences of the Japanese mini submarine attack in Sydney Harbour 1942

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By
Magella Blinksell
Contributed By
Internet Archive
[ReminiscenceOfNightOfSubAttacksOnSydneyHarbourWwii]
(Excerpt from A Track Winding Back: Morshead Home Oral History & Reminiscence project)
CC BY-SA 2.0

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