1942-01-20
Sinking of I-124
Off Darwin
Off Darwin on 20 January 1942, I-124 fired a torpedo at the corvette Deloraine and missed. Deloraine made the first depth-charge attack. Katoomba and Lithgow joined her, and Edsall was in the hunt. Postwar records credit the four ships together. The submarine was lost with her crew. The kill is not pinned to one of them.
Sunk in this fight
One ship.
Created for this encyclopedia, not a scanned historical map. Base map: Natural Earth, public domain; the coast is generalized. North is up. Not a surveyed track. The amber pin, 12°08' S, 130°10' E, is where HMAS Deloraine was when I-124 fired a torpedo at her on 20 January 1942. The red pin, 12°03' S, 130°09' E, is the position that divers from USS Holland recorded for the submarine. Both are from the Japanese ship history on combinedfleet.com, one source. The two points are about five miles apart and are about 40 miles west of Darwin.
