Lost_52_Project

Lost 52 Project

Organisation looking for sunken submarines

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]

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

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Lost 52 Project

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United States Submarine Losses

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US Navy validates final resting place of WWII submarine S-28.

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"7th WWII Submarine Discovered by Explorer Tim Taylor's 'Lost 52 Project'". PR Newswire. Cision. August 4, 2020. Retrieved May 25, 2023.

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"Veteran ocean explorer discovers WWII submarine in South China Sea". NBC News. May 22, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2024.

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

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