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Lost Military · Mid-Atlantic, ~1,200 mi W of the Cape Verde Islands

The Golden Submarine I-52

The Golden Submarine I-52: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: TraditionSank 1944 · located 1995 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

On her maiden run the I-52 carried gold, tungsten, and opium across the world to pay Hitler for technology, and US codebreakers read her every move. A hunter-killer group found her in the dark Atlantic and an acoustic torpedo did the rest. She lies three miles down, located in 1995 by a treasure expedition; the gold is still aboard, too deep, so far, to lift.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: 2.2 tons of Japanese gold bound for Nazi Germany

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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