The S-boats made up Caviite's complentment of boats along with USS Canopus. Upon the PI's fall, the boats left and as the crews were intimately more familiar with the area than anyone else in SUBPAC would have been, the old Caviite skippers and their boats were tasked with the resupply of the guerrilla groups.

A boat's topside is littered with hatch covered lockers and storage spaces. So is it possible that a few of the spaces were amalgamated into one large space and then given a trunk? Is it possible that this was done to make the resupply effort more simple, ie; one hatch to empty instead of fifteen? S-39 in particular, was guilty of many such raids into Japanese terrorities.

Cheers,


Don