Japanese submarine I-124
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| Name: | I-124 |
| Builder: | Kawasaki Corporation, Kobe |
| Laid down: | 17 April 1926 |
| Launched: | 12 December 1927 |
| Commissioned: | 10 December 1928 |
| Renamed: | from SS-60 to I-124, 1 June 1938 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 20 January 1942 |
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| Class and type: | I-121-class submarine |
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| Length: | 85.20 m (279 ft 6 in) overall |
| Beam: | 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: | 4.42 m (14 ft 6 in) |
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| Test depth: | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Complement: | 80 |
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I-124 was an I-121-class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy that was sunk off Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, on 21 January 1942, during World War II. I-124 was conducting mine laying operations and attacking shipping along with three other submarines along the northern coast of Australia.
The submarine was laid down on 17 April 1926 at the Kawasaki Shipyard at Kobe, launched on 12 December 1927, and was commissioned on 10 December 1928 as the SS-60, being re-numbered I-124 on 1 June 1938.
In November 1941 I-124, under the command of Lt.Cdr. Kishigami Koichi, sailed in company with I-123 for the Philippines. She received the coded signal "Climb Mount Niitaka" on 2 December 1941, notifying her that hostilities would commence on 8 December (Japan time). On that day I-124 laid mines off Manila Bay, Philippines, before proceeding to the seas south-west of Lubang Island.
On 10 December she torpedoed and sank the 1,523-ton British freighter Hareldawns off western Luzon. I-124 then sailed to Cam Ranh Bay, before returning to the Philippines to patrol Manila Bay in late December, before proceeding south via the Mindoro Strait into the Sulu Sea. On 31 December 1941 she arrived at Davao, to join the rest of Submarine Squadron 6 (I-121, I-122 and I-123) and their flagship, the 6,600-ton submarine tender Chogei.
SubRon 6 was then assigned to operate in the Flores Sea and the Torres Strait north of Australia. On 10 January they departed Davao, and the same day, one of the mines laid by I-124 the previous month in Manila Bay sank the 1,976-ton Panamanian-flagged freighter Daylight. On 12 January I-124 laid 39 mines in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, and on the 14th she sighted the American heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30) and two destroyers, but was unable to gain an attack position.
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