Interesting stuff. The primary reason there are no existing I-Boats today is that the remaining examples were all scuttled by the USN.
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Another was the condition of the vessels: they were filthy — they had been crawling with rats when captured — and generally unreliable.
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Yeah...I've read US ships had to moor well upwind of captured Japanese subs, the sanitary conditions on board at the end of the war were so poor.