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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
You can strip out a military sub to be a cargo vessel. The Germans and Japanese did that in World War II to send items, expert personnel, and intelligence back and forth when they wanted to be sure (as possible) that they would not be intercepted.
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Perfectly true for the Japanese and the German sub you are talking about were converted Type IXD1. In addition the Germans designed such cargo subs during both world wars.
In WW1 they had designed the U-151 but only 2 out of 7 were completed as cargo: Deutschland and Bremen. They had a cargo capacity of 700 tons and would have been used between USA and Germany.
In WW2 they designed the type XIV (10 units) that had a cargo capacity of 430 tons+torpedo supply. All were lost to air attacks.
For my part I had the barrikada converted to a cargo sub (my players failed that one). This Typhoon was brought back to Russia, it was stripped of the three remaining missiles (placed on trains) and converted to a cargo/special mission sub.