I-400, for those who like the really big boats

flintlock · 03-11-07, 11:51 PM

You have to commend the Japanase for thinking outside of the box with I-400, and the risks they took with its innovative design.

geetrue · 03-12-07, 12:03 AM

Regular navy called our WWII diesel boats pig boats and stink boats (due to the diesel fumes), but the term really fit these uncoth sailors of the IJN ... I would call them the zoo boat sailors.

I offer this excerpt from: http://www.pacerfarm.org/i-400/i-400.htm

as proof ...

Quote:

As in all long-range submarines, a four month supply of food was stowed in every cranny, including a layer of crates laid out on deck which the crew walked on until they'd eaten their way through. Supernumeraries slept on the deck wherever they could find a nook, being used to a floor and tatami mat. The oriental style heads were just holes in the decks above sanitary tanks . . . excretory inaccuracy, inevitable in a seaway, guaranteed that no one lingered there. While inspecting the giant I-boats boats Admiral Lockwood, our wartime ComSubsPac, expressed horror at these odiferous "sanitary" arrangements.7

Tigrone · 03-23-07, 11:01 PM

Looks like we got a present.

03-23-07, 11:01 PM	#3
Tigrone Commander Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Newport Beach, CA Posts: 470 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	A miracle! It's in the game! Looks like we got a present. __________________ Commander Hiram Cassedy: "Tigrone has saved the Air Force and is now returning to Iwo Jima with 28 rescued zoomies." B-29 SNUFFY & THE SHIF'LESS SKONKS among them. I've a broom at the mast said he, for the broom is a sign for me, that wherever I go, I sweep the mighty sea.

03-11-07, 11:51 PM	#1
flintlock Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	You have to commend the Japanase for thinking outside of the box with I-400, and the risks they took with its innovative design.