page_title: 8th Submarine Squadron (Imperial Japanese Navy)
section_title: 1944
hierarchical_section_title: 8th Submarine Squadron (Imperial Japanese Navy) / Operations / 1944
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanese Submarine "I-165" (KAIDAI-class type-V, ex-I-65, renamed in 1942) on trial run at Hiroshima Bay. 日本語: 日本海軍海大V型潜水艦「伊号第165潜水艦」（当時の艦名は伊65）広島湾で公試中
context_page_description: The 8th Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was based at Swettenham Pier, Penang, Malaya, until late 1944 during World War II. Its mission was to disrupt Allied supply lines in aid of Nazi Germany.
context_section_description: On February 4 I-27 left Penang for Addu Atoll and Aden Bay. While underway, she intercepted and sank the troopship SS Khedive Ismail, but was in turn caught and sunk between the Maldive Islands and Addu Atoll by the convoy's escorts HMS Paladin and Petard.
  In late February I-26 took 22 Indian National Army members to India to provide intelligence to the Japanese. The 22 were landed near Pasni (Pakistan) on March 27. I-26 was relocated to the Pacific and lost without trace in October.
  On March 18 I-165 under Lt Cdr Shimizu Tsuruzo torpedoed and sank the 3,916-ton British armed merchant Nancy Moller at 02-14N, 78-25E. She surfaced, Able Seaman Gunlayer Dennis Fryer prisoner, while killing two Chinese seamen and releasing three other seamen. Before departing I-165 machine gunned the lifeboats killing 32.  The British light cruiser HMS Emerald rescued 32 of the crew who had survived the attacks.
  Under Ariizumo, about July, I-8 was responsible for the massacre of unarmed merchant seamen from the SS Tjisalak (98 KIA) and Jean Nicolet (63 KIA).  All the German and Japanese submarines were withdrawn from Penang by the end of 1944. None of the submarines in the Squadron survived the war.
caption: I-165
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