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razark · 06-06-13, 05:12 PM

Considering the boats were designed and built in the '20s, I doubt they would have been worth upgrading. Swapping out engines would probably have been the easy part, but by the 1940s, the hulls were over a decade old, and there would have been no way to bring those up to current specifications. I'm not sure how fitting modern equipment into the boats would have worked. Off the top of my head, I don't know what equipment they were upgraded to during the war, but I would guess that some stuff would be hard to fit into such an old design. (Given what some sub skippers got away with, and the ingenuity of the shipyards, they probably would have found a way to make it work, though.)

06-06-13, 05:12 PM	#2
razark Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,731 Downloads: 393 Uploads: 12	Considering the boats were designed and built in the '20s, I doubt they would have been worth upgrading. Swapping out engines would probably have been the easy part, but by the 1940s, the hulls were over a decade old, and there would have been no way to bring those up to current specifications. I'm not sure how fitting modern equipment into the boats would have worked. Off the top of my head, I don't know what equipment they were upgraded to during the war, but I would guess that some stuff would be hard to fit into such an old design. (Given what some sub skippers got away with, and the ingenuity of the shipyards, they probably would have found a way to make it work, though.) __________________ "Never ask a World War II history buff for a 'final solution' to your problem!"