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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
I'll have to look for the account. It'll grow hair on your chest for sure. Those S-Boats were pretty near suicide.
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What exacerbated the problem with the S boats was that the build quality was very poor. With the end of WWI the United States went into an isolationist stance, and with it went funding for the Navy. The end result was problems like the rampant fires from excessive condensation in the boats.