Ao Thai Sub Wreck

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This was on the frontpage of 2Bkk a while back, but this ATIMES article (15/07/05) seems a bit more detailed:-
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GG15Ae01.html
Signonsandiego.com with roughly the same report also had this to say:-
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050701-0554-thailand-submarine.html
The Gulf of Thailand is the final resting place for many U.S. and Japanese ships and planes destroyed in the struggle for maritime supremacy in South East Asia and the South China Sea in World War Two.

Thailand's west coast is strewn with Japanese and British warships sunk while patrolling the Indian Ocean shoreline from ports in Burma, or Myanmar as it is now called, and Sri Lanka. MacLeod, who said he had also just discovered a Lockheed P38 Lightning – a high-altitude fighter dubbed the 'Forktailed Devil' by the German Luftwaffe – said the Lagarto appeared to be relatively undamaged.
More for the enthusiast:-
http://www.thaiwreckdiver.com/
Link to download a Chicago Tribune Article about the bereaved relatives of the wreck victims:-
http://www.thaiwreckdiver.com/documents/chicago_tribune_uss_lagarto_closure.doc

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Well-illustrated site:-
http://www.thaiwreckdiver.com/lagarto.htm

Location:-

http://www.thaiwreckdiver.com/images/missing%20sub.jpg

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http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/specials/special_lost_submarines.htm

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"We've always known that since the end of the war there's been a submarine missing around there," said British wreck diver Jamie MacLeod, who discovered the 110-meter submarine. "We went into all the war-time records, cross-referenced them with fishermen's marks and then searched with sonar and it came up trumps - we found a bump on the bottom, went down the line and there it was."

This is a highly impressive piece of reporting on the Lagarto recovery. Particularly impressive are two sketches that the divers made of their discovery. After clicking the links below, click on the image for further magnification:-

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08371b.htm

Drawing of the Lagarto (SS-371) made on the second dive on her, dated 29 July 2005, at a depth of 230 feet. This drawing shows massive damage to her portside bow area, with outer plating destroyed and a hole blown inward into the forward battery room, wardroom area, & normal fuel oil tank No. 1, probably from the result of depth charging.

Simply speculating, but due to reports that the Lagarto was sunk at night (00:10), she may have been making a night surface attack when the radar equipped Japanese netlayer Hatsutaka detected her and possibly put two shell holes through her conning tower (see drawing) and then delivered her lethal depth charge attack which sunk the Lagarto.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0837112.jpg

Drawing of the Lagarto (SS-371) made on the second dive on her, dated 29 July 2005, at a depth of 230 feet.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0837115.jpg