1944-01-14
Loss of Sazanami
About 300 miles southeast of Yap
On 14 January 1944 Sazanami and Akebono were meeting a tanker convoy coming up from Palau toward Truk. The submarine Albacore hit Sazanami with two torpedoes near 05°15′N, 141°15′E. She broke up and was gone in under three minutes. One hundred fifty-three men died, her captain Suga among them. Akebono took off the other 89.
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 pin is USS Albacore's attack position on 14 January 1944, 05°15' N, 141°15' E, from the Submarine Operations Research Group attack data: four torpedoes fired, two hits, a destroyer sunk. It is where the submarine logged the attack. It is not a surveyed wreck position.
