For the next fistfull of lead game at the club.(January 21th)
The treasure of Tobago 
History:
I-52 THE GOLDEN SUBMARINE
The I-52, a Japanese cargo submarine, was commissioned in December 1943.
Commanded by the veteran UNO Kameo, technically more sophisticated than its predecessors, it was equipped with an anti-aircraft radar and a radar detector, but no schnorkel.
On 10 March 1944, it left Kure for its first mission, bound for Lorient.
On board, 95 men and 14 passengers:
+ seven engineers and technicians in military optics,
+ five specialists in ciphers,
+ a German-Japanese interpreter.
+ A special envoy from the Emperor's household carrying an imperial letter to the Japanese ambassador in Switzerland, with an improved model 94 encryption machine, for the Japanese embassy in Berlin.
On March 21, he arrived in Singapore and loaded two tons of gold, three tons of opium, 9.8 tons of molybdenum + 120 tons of tin, 60 tons of rubber, 3.3 tons of quinine and 55 kg of caffeine.
At the last minute, he loaded 30 tons of "secret material" in boxes bearing the imperial seal, perhaps gold destined to be transported to Switzerland.
The gold, the result of looting in the Far East, was to be melted down by the Reich Bank into "legal" ingots.
Half of the 2 tons of official gold was destined to the Emperor's Swiss accounts and the other half to pay for the purchase of ZEISS optical military equipment. These two tons and especially the 30 others still make treasure hunters dream today and later earned the submarine its nickname.
It left Singapore on 23 April and the Japanese gave it the code name "Momi" (Fir Tree).
The I-52 was the fifth (and last) Japanese submarine to attempt this passage.
On 7 May, the US listening services concluded that the I-52 had left Singapore and began to follow its progress.
On 15 May, the commander sent a message to the Germans who assigned the code name "U-Tanne" to the submarine.
The Allied listening services decoded the message and assigned the I-52 to the F-21 anti-submarine group operating near the Azores and which had already sunk the RO-501.
On 6 June, Admiral KOJIMA, naval attaché in Berlin, indicated to the I-52 and to Tokyo that the landing of the Allies in Normandy could compromise the mission and divert the I-52 towards Norway.
A rendezvous was agreed with a German submarine at a designated point
.KOJIMA commits the imprudence to indicate the position of I-52. Everything is decoded by the Allies.
On 22 June (the archives sometimes speak of the 18th) at 21:15, the I-52 met the U-530 off Trinidad and Tobago, commanded by Captain Kurt Lange, who had left Lorient on 22 May. Lieutenant Schäfer embarked on the I-52 to help with the navigation, as well as two radio operators. A state-of-the-art "Naxos 7" radar detector was installed. The U-530 set out again towards Trinidad, in immersion thanks to its schnorkel.
On June 23, around 23H40, the I-52, on the surface (it does not have a schnorkel), is spotted on the radar by a plane of the aircraft carrier BOGUE, of the F-21 group. The I-52 escaped this grenade attack.
The F-21 group has sound detection buoys, which are used for the first time. The first plane manages to locate the submarine by sound and attacks it with a new type of acoustic grenade.
In the early morning, a second plane came to deliver the coup de grâce.
The agony of the I-52 and the conversations of the airmen are recorded on reels of on-board wire recorders. These reels were found in the American archives in 1985.
http://piquetjm.free.fr/I28/I52/missioni521944.htmlfilm nat geo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKjB6WW_CY8
U-boat U-530After its training at Stettin in Poland within the 4. Unterseebootsflottille until February 28, 1943, the U-530 was assigned to a combat formation at the submarine base of Lorient in France within the 10. Unterseebootsflottille. Following the advance of the Allied forces in France and to avoid captivity, it left to join the 33. Unterseebootsflottille in Flensburg, Germany, as of October 1, 1944.
On 29 December 1943, U-530 was forced to return to its base after being rammed by the tanker Esso Buffalo.
In May 1944, U-530 was assigned to the Trinidad and Tobago area of operations.
U-530's penultimate patrol was to join the Japanese submarine I-52 off Trinidad to hand over a Naxos radar detector with two operators and a German navigator to help it reach Europe with its cargo of gold and strategic materials.
The U-530 did not surrender, as ordered by Admiral Karl Dönitz, at the surrender of Germany, but headed for Argentina, where it touched down in Mar del Plata on 10 July 1945, about five weeks before the submarine U-977, which would arrive on 17 August 1945. The crew was interned there.
A journalist speculated that U-530, then commanded by Otto Wermuth, might have been transporting high ranking Nazi officials, including Adolf Hitler, to Latin America1.
U-530 was transferred to the United States for testing. It was sunk as a target on 28 November 1947 by a torpedo from the American submarine USS Toro (SS-422).
The scenarioJune 22, 1944 : The I-52 having technical problems, the Japanese commander Kameo decided, during the meeting with the U530, to transfer part of the cargo composed of the gold boxes of the Japanese empire on the German U-boat.
On 24 June, having surfaced, U-530 was attacked off Little Tobago by a US Navy Catalina. The German submariners had time to launch a lifeboat.
Bitterly trying to recover the survivors of the submarine, the Catalina was also subject to technical problems, and the crew decided that it was safer to wait for help on the island of Little Tobago. During the night, the Catalina ended up sinking not far from its victim.
Two days later, all the shipwrecked crew members were recovered on the island of Little Tobago by the US Navy.
July 1975After multiple researches in the US, Japanese and German archives of the time, your company was able to discover the last coordinates of U-530 and the logbook of the Catalina's pilot.
You go to the site to explore it. Apparently you are not the only ones interested in the gold of the U-boot....
Even if the world is not at war since 30 years, what happens at sea stays at sea...and you use all the means at your disposal to recover this treasure......
At 1/72 scale
U-boot , animals and corals in 3D printing
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