Pit-Road W036 1/700 IJN Submarine Tender Jingei (迅鯨) 1934~35 Print this pagePrint this page
Pit-Road W036 1/700 IJN Submarine Tender Jingei (迅鯨) 1934~35
Price: HK$195.00

Highlights:
- water-line

Availability: [Sold Out]
Weight: 0.11 kg
Description
  • World War Two
  • Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)
  • 1st Jingei-class submarine tenders [another one was Chōgei (長鯨)]
  • commissioned: 30 August 1923
  • Second Sino-Japanese War - escorted the convoys transporting the IJA 10th Division to northern China, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (盧溝橋事變) of 7 July 1937.
  • Battle of Wake Island [8~10 December 1941]
  • [29 December 1941[ -  rescued all crewmen of the submarine Ro-60.
  • [14 July ~ 7 November 1942] -  based in Rabaul.
  • [1 January 1944] - based at Kure. 
  • [summer of 1944] - main guns were replaced with 18 Type 96 25-mm antiaircraft guns.
  • [11 August 1944] - transport for supplies and reinforcements to Okinawa.
  • [19 September 1944] - on her 4th mission to Okinawa, Jingei was torpedoed near Naha by USS Scabbardfish.
  • [10 October 1944] - the immobile Jingei was attacked by Allied aircraft from USS Hancock and sank.

Images

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Submarine Tender Jingei & Submarine I-5
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Submarine tender Jingei & Submarine Flotilla 26 (Ro-60 class submarines). [1927]
 
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Submarine Tender Jingei at Sasebo Naval Base [October 1937]
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The immobile Jingei was attacked by Allied aircraft from USS Hancock and sank at Naha.[10 October 1944]