HIJMS Submarine I-25 LbNA #11261 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 28, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Astoria |
| County: | Clatsop |
| State: | Oregon |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | RatPac  |
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| Found by: | F-Cat |
| Last found: | Sep 2, 2009 |
| Status: | FaFFaFFFFFFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Sep 28, 2004 |
HIJMS Submarine I-25
Stamp: Hand carved
Wheel chair friendly: Not to actual box
Stroller friendly: Don’t need one
Terrain: paved sidewalk
Distance of walk: Short, drive up
Notes: No pen or stamp pad included
First some background information:
The following information is from http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-25.htm. The website actually has the entire wartime record of the submarine, very interesting reading. I highly recommend it.
15 October 1941:
The I-25 is completed by Mitsubishi at Kobe, commissioned in the IJN and based in the Yokosuka Naval District. The I-25 is assigned to SubRon 1's SubDiv 4 in the Sixth Fleet (Submarines).
21 June 1942:
The I-25 fires 17 rounds at Fort Stevens on the N coast of Oregon, but inflicts no significant damage. (One dud shell lands on a golf course and is now a memorial.) The Japanese actually intended to shell the "American submarine base at Astoria."
27 July 1942:
The Naval General Staff's First Bureau (Operations) develops a plan to attack the dense forest in the Pacific Northwest. The Emperor Hirohito's (Showa) brother, Cdr Prince Takamatsu tells WO Fujita that a large forest fire may cause the American Navy to reposition its Pacific Fleet to defend the mainland. The I-25 is ordered to undertake this operation.
29 September 1942:
Cdr Tagami makes another attempt to start a forest fire in the Oregon woods. The I-25 surfaces after midnight about 50 miles west of Cape Blanco. Fujita's plane is launched by catapult at 2107(I). Although the entire western coast of Oregon is blacked out, the Cape Blanco lighthouse is still operating. Using that light to navigate, Fujita flies east over the coast and drops his bombs. At least one starts a fire; however, it goes out before US Forest Service foresters can reach it. The bombing is unsuccessful. On his way back, Fujita manages to find his sub by following an oil slick. During the following days the rough sea and heavy mist permitted no further attacks.
25 August 1943:
The USS PATTERSON (DD-392), escorting a convoy bound from the New Hebrides Islands to the lower Solomons, makes radar contact on a surfaced submarine. The destroyer closes to 4,000 yards, but the submarine dives and breaks contact. The PATTERSON's sonar picks up the submarine and the destroyer drops several depth charge patterns that probably sink the I-25 at 13-10S, 165-27E.
(The submarine sunk by the PATTERSON possibly may have been the RO-35. The I-25 may have hit one of the mines sowed by the PREBLE, GAMBLE and the BREESE off Espiritu Santo.)
24 October 1943:
Presumed lost with all 100 hands in the Fiji area.
Now to the box:
Fort Stevens enjoys the distinction of being the only military installation in the continental United States to be fired on since the War of 1812. On the night of June 21, 1942, the Fort was the target of a Japanese submarine which fired 17 shells in the vicinity of the Fort. The shelling caused no damage and Fort Stevens did not return fire. (http://www.visitftstevens.com)
If you were to take Hwy 101 North into Warrenton/Astoria from Seaside you will notice signs directing you to Ft. Stevens. The same road will also display a sign for a historical marker. Follow the signs to Delaura Beach Lane. There you will find a marker commemorating the bombing of Ft. Stevens. As you are reading the monument you will be standing under a large tree that is growing behind the marker. At the base of the tree, on the right side, under ferns and a layer of dead leaves (PLEASE replace the leaves) you will find the I-25.
I live about 3 hours away from this box so I cannot check on it regularly. Please e-mail me and let me know how it is doing.
Stamp: Hand carved
Wheel chair friendly: Not to actual box
Stroller friendly: Don’t need one
Terrain: paved sidewalk
Distance of walk: Short, drive up
Notes: No pen or stamp pad included
First some background information:
The following information is from http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-25.htm. The website actually has the entire wartime record of the submarine, very interesting reading. I highly recommend it.
15 October 1941:
The I-25 is completed by Mitsubishi at Kobe, commissioned in the IJN and based in the Yokosuka Naval District. The I-25 is assigned to SubRon 1's SubDiv 4 in the Sixth Fleet (Submarines).
21 June 1942:
The I-25 fires 17 rounds at Fort Stevens on the N coast of Oregon, but inflicts no significant damage. (One dud shell lands on a golf course and is now a memorial.) The Japanese actually intended to shell the "American submarine base at Astoria."
27 July 1942:
The Naval General Staff's First Bureau (Operations) develops a plan to attack the dense forest in the Pacific Northwest. The Emperor Hirohito's (Showa) brother, Cdr Prince Takamatsu tells WO Fujita that a large forest fire may cause the American Navy to reposition its Pacific Fleet to defend the mainland. The I-25 is ordered to undertake this operation.
29 September 1942:
Cdr Tagami makes another attempt to start a forest fire in the Oregon woods. The I-25 surfaces after midnight about 50 miles west of Cape Blanco. Fujita's plane is launched by catapult at 2107(I). Although the entire western coast of Oregon is blacked out, the Cape Blanco lighthouse is still operating. Using that light to navigate, Fujita flies east over the coast and drops his bombs. At least one starts a fire; however, it goes out before US Forest Service foresters can reach it. The bombing is unsuccessful. On his way back, Fujita manages to find his sub by following an oil slick. During the following days the rough sea and heavy mist permitted no further attacks.
25 August 1943:
The USS PATTERSON (DD-392), escorting a convoy bound from the New Hebrides Islands to the lower Solomons, makes radar contact on a surfaced submarine. The destroyer closes to 4,000 yards, but the submarine dives and breaks contact. The PATTERSON's sonar picks up the submarine and the destroyer drops several depth charge patterns that probably sink the I-25 at 13-10S, 165-27E.
(The submarine sunk by the PATTERSON possibly may have been the RO-35. The I-25 may have hit one of the mines sowed by the PREBLE, GAMBLE and the BREESE off Espiritu Santo.)
24 October 1943:
Presumed lost with all 100 hands in the Fiji area.
Now to the box:
Fort Stevens enjoys the distinction of being the only military installation in the continental United States to be fired on since the War of 1812. On the night of June 21, 1942, the Fort was the target of a Japanese submarine which fired 17 shells in the vicinity of the Fort. The shelling caused no damage and Fort Stevens did not return fire. (http://www.visitftstevens.com)
If you were to take Hwy 101 North into Warrenton/Astoria from Seaside you will notice signs directing you to Ft. Stevens. The same road will also display a sign for a historical marker. Follow the signs to Delaura Beach Lane. There you will find a marker commemorating the bombing of Ft. Stevens. As you are reading the monument you will be standing under a large tree that is growing behind the marker. At the base of the tree, on the right side, under ferns and a layer of dead leaves (PLEASE replace the leaves) you will find the I-25.
I live about 3 hours away from this box so I cannot check on it regularly. Please e-mail me and let me know how it is doing.