Supply Submarines (SSK)

Though both sides used submarines at times to run enemy blockades, only the Japanese constructed submarines specifically to carry supplies. These proved entirely inadequate to resupply isolated garrisons on distant islands.

Japanese supply submarine classes

SS class

References

Boyd and Yoshida (1995)

Sakaida et al. (2006)

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