A WWII Submarine That Disappeared Without A Trace Has Finally Been Found, And It’s Secrets Revealed

Lost At Sea

The sub also reported, on the following day, that the craft had done serious damage to the liner, Asama Maru – which the Japanese had pressed into military service as a troop carrier – and sunk the tanker, Nanpo Maru. These two attacks had left the Grayback with just two torpedoes, so she had to set sail to Midway Atoll in the North Pacific, in order to top up.

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The message sent on February 25, was the last radio message that anyone heard from the Grayback. She was supposed to dock at Midway Atoll around March 7, 1944, but did not turn up. Three weeks passed, and there was still no sign of her. On March 30, the authorities declared the Grayback and her crew of 80 as “lost at sea.”