This mod looks interesting, however, the layout of the captain's cabin appears to be more fit for a German boat. If I am thinking correctly the captain's cabin on a fleet boat was much different in both arrangement and amenities. Might I suggest a virtual tour of the USS Pampanito. You can do it online, and will hopefully give a good idea of the interior of most of the fleet boats. Aside from the S-boat, all the fleet boat living areas were much the same to one another (which will make adding these rooms to the boats very easy. The only really different areas would be the engine room(s) (some earlier fleet boats, if they had four engines had them all in one room) bow torpedo and stern torpedo rooms.
From what deck plans I have seen of the sugar boat, it would seem they were very similar in layout to a type II U-boat, just with the control room reversed in orientation (the dive plane station on the port side of the room opposed to the starboard side, among other things. Plus it would seem the S-boat was a tad bigger inside than even the type VII. What would be neat to add to the fleet boat is a conning tower. They did have one, albeit was tiny, and did't have much more in it than a steering station. But it also had tiny portholes. But then again, that might be very hard to model.
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