NavList:

Alex, I, too, have seen that Kaiten which is now at Pearl Harbor. But it's been forty years (more years since I last saw it than the age of the submarine at that time!). Here's a photo of it shortly before it was shipped to Hawaii:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h71000/h71520.jpg
Back before Mystic Seaport had become a museum with a proper focus, they collected all sorts of strange things, and the Kaiten was a sort of "gate guard" out by the parking lot.

For John, the NJNM's Seehund is not the only one surviving, and in fact there's one not far away in Massachusetts. Also note that a proper translation of "seehund" is "seal". Yes, it's derived way back from "sea dog" since seals do very much resemble dogs, but it's like the English word "catfish". :)

-FER

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