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Old 11-15-09, 02:04 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Torplexed View Post
Unless you had the incredible luck to come across an unburnt-out tanker porting diesel oil you won't find much. Most WW2 merchant vessel powerplants ran on coal or heavy fuel oil, because they were cheap.
Precisely....and before the heavy oil was of use it first had to be run through the purifiers...not many subs would have the capability.
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