old Propellor found in San Francisco Bay

[Roger Cain]

At present, I have yet to hear back from the person requesting the information. According to a person at Schellville that was familiar with that prop, I received an email from New Zealand on this and am posting it below.

Hi

Many thanks for your message with the intriguing question!

I'm in Australia at present (and will be for several months) but my
reference material is all back in New Zealand. However, I have some
ideas and some good contacts, so I think we'll find an answer before long.

My first thoughts are that it is a prop from a Japanese training
aircraft such as a Tachikawa "Hickory" that was collected as a souvenir
in Japan post-war and then either thrown away in a trash collection,
lost overboard, or lost if the ship carrying it sank.

The Japanese occupied the Philippines in WW2, so the prop could have been
made at that time, or simply made pre-war from imported wood.

I'll forward your message to some people who should be able to translate
the markings

Cheers

Charles

[marine air]

Hey All,
I must have missed that important detail, I thought they were guessing, but if they have it on the propellor, that's awesome! Good work tracking that down. I still think it is something that got pitched overboard in the Bay by a sailor. Are there any of those Watanabe Type 96 floatplanes in existence?
Thanks,

[HarvardIV]

Hello Folks:

Only 35 E9W's built! Is Mr. Aiken sure he read the prop right? THe plane looks pretty elegant, her's a photo:

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/sww2/e9w.html

[David_Aiken]

Hello Folks:

Only 35 E9W's built! Is Mr. Aiken sure he read the prop right? THe plane looks pretty elegant, her's a photo:

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/sww2/e9w.html

Hi HarvardIV,
The single line of kanji is readable... my sensei provided the SAME kanji to compare- you may 'cut and paste' that kanji into GOOGLE search and do an international search to discover the Type plane for yourself.

YES, now you are slowly getting 'the picture' that the E9W propeller is VERY rare...and no E9W exists....and ONLY 35 were built adding to that rarity.

Cheers,
David

[HarvardIV]

Dave;

I haven't found much info. on the E9W. Are you sure the "Slim" (sounds like a good nickname for Rob) wasn't used on battleships as a scout during the war?

[David_Aiken]

Ok Folks,

1 Yes these where used on both Battleships and Heavy Crusiers, Durning the Alsk. Attacks two where lost to either bad weather of shot down.

2 During late 42 thru earl 43 the Japanese had run Battle Wagons up and down the West Coast looking for a chance to do some shore firing never happen due to alot of things. So this could have come from one of the Scout planes.

I'm think it was a War Prize that got tossed over board remember folk alot of the Pacific fleet didn't come home till late 46 early 47.

Cheers
RER

The E8N was used on BBs and CAs...not the E9W.

The E9W was the plane from which the propeller came... I await the rubbing to tell us more.

The E9W was a experimental plane used for launch from submarines...and replaced by the E14Y for operations in WWII.

[David_Aiken]

Aloha Roger,
Any progress toward receipt of a rubbing? My sensei is standing by.
Cheers,
David Aiken
PearlHarborHistory (at) Hotmail (dot) com

[Roger Cain]

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[David_Aiken]

Hi David,

Unfortunately, I've received absolutely no response from the news/reporter person that requested this information from me. I've sent them a number of emails

Hi Roger,
Status report: same?
Standing by,
David

[Roger Cain]

David,

Status is the same. I heard back from the reporter the other day, and let them know a rubbing of the prop was needed, so still in the air...........

[David_Aiken]

Hi Roger,
Standing by...send me a scan when you get it...to my e-mail so that I can forward this to my various sensei for consensus opinion.
Cheers,
David
PearlHarborHistory (at) Hotmail (dot) com