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Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Japanese submarine (ex-Submarine No. 59 1921-1924) RO-60 1924-1941

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Type L subclass L4 or RO-60 class. Laid down by Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan on 5 December 1921, launched on 22 December 1922, completed and commissioned on 17 September 1923, renamed RO-60 on 1 November 1924, last time recommissioned on 15 October 1940, damaged by an American aircraft off Wake Island on 21 December 1941, wrecked on a reef north of Kwajalein Atoll on 29 December 1941, stricken on 15 February 1942 and destroyed after her torpedoes detonated during an air attack later in the war. 

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