Yashimoto's last dive

296 Pages·1987·28.59 MB·English

by  Trew

ANTONY TREW
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Togo Yashimoto, captain of the Japa-
nesesubmarine 1-357, aruthless disciph-
narian steeped in the Samurai tradition,
HMS
and John Barratt, captain of
Restless, haunted by his wife's death
while a prisoner of the Japanese in
Changi jail, were two very different
men whose destinies were linked in the
deadly game of hide-and-seek they
were to play out among the islands and
atolls of the Mozambique coast.
Homeward boundafteradisappoint-
ing patrol in the Indian Ocean, Yashi-
moto encounters an unescorted
American freighter making for Cape
Delgado. To conserve his remaining
torpedoes he decides to attack by
gunfire. In the night action which
follows he sinks the Fort Nebraska, but
not before her stern gun has scored a
lucky hit. Unable to dive, Yashimoto
makes for the coast to carry out repairs
and to hide from the British air and
surface forcesheexpects on thesceneat
dawn.
HMS
Restless, returning to her base,
picks up Brad Corrigan, the only
member of the freighter's crew to
survive the massacre that followed her
sinking. On the strength of the Ameri-
can'sreport, Barrattsetsoutinpursuitof
the submarine. Stretching over four
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YASHIMOTO'S LAST DIVE
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ANTONY TREW
YASHIMOTO'S
LAST DIVE
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Yashimoto'slastdive.
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PR9369.3.T7Y37 1987 87-16306
ISBN0-312-01116-4
FirstpublishedinGreatBritainbyWilliamCollinsSons&Co., Ltd.
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The C-in-C Eastern Fleet had further reason
tobeperturbedbylossesin the Indian Ocean.
Many sinkings by the Japanese were marked
by atrocities. The blood lust of their sub-
marine commanders seems to have grown as
their losses multipHed ... it was common-
placeforships' crewstobemachine-gunnedin
boats and rafts.
Warin theSouthern Oceans1939-1945
Turner,Gordon-Cumming&Betzler(OxfordUniversityPress,1961)