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 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
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
April 12, 1944
Struck by kamikaze plane and Japanese flying suicide bomb during the Battle of Okinawa
December 2022
^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. August 4, 2020. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
^"Veteran ocean explorer discovers WWII submarine in South China Sea". NBC News. May 22, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
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