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I've toured the Pampanito a couple of times. As Bruce says, it is seriously cramped. It is also really retro without trying; reminds me of my grandparents' house during and after the war, with Bakelite the most modern material.
I didn't know until I read Wikipedea today that it was "credited" with sinking the Kachidoki Maru on September 12, 1944. The Kachidoki Maru carried 900 British and Australian prisoners of war; the Pampanito picked up 73 survivors 3 days later. This seems to have been part of a wolfpack operation that resulted in the sinking of Japanese ships carring 2,100 POWs, of which only 127 survived.
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