An item reported that more reports about the Allied naval-air offensive against the Japanese ships in the Strait of Macassar became available. Besides the already mentioned Japanese losses torpedoed the American submarine USS Sturgeon (1) a heavy cruiser or aircraft carrier which probably sunk and the Dutch submarine Hr.Ms. K-18 (2)sunk a Japanese destroyer and hit a cruiser with unknown results. She was herself damaged by Japanese depth charges. Dutch bombers sunk a transport hitting a destroyer and another transport and US Army bombers sunk a large transport and scoring a direct hit on a cruiser.
Notes
1. SS-187. Part of Salmon-class preceded by Porpoise-class succeeded by Sargo-class. Laid down by Mare Islands Naval Shipyard on 27 October 1936, launched on 15 March 1938, commissioned on 25 June 1938, decommissioned on 15 November 1945, stricken on 30 April 1948 and sold to be broken up on 12 June 1948. She attacked on 26 January off Balikpapan a transport and 4 destroyers and torpedoed the transport which was believed to be damaged but there no post-war records of her sinking.
2. Part of K XIV-class preceded by K XI-class succeeded by O 19-class. Laid down by Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands on 10 June 1931, launched on 26 July 1932, commissioned on 23 March 1934, heavily damagaed by depth charges, scuttled at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies on 2 March 1942, salvaged by the Japanese in 1944 and converted into a picket hulk in the Strait Madoera and torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Taciturn. Sunk in January a destroyer and the patrol vessel P 37 and on 24 January the ss Tsuruga Maru when attacking the light cruiser Naka.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No.48 dated 27 January 1942
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