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Old 03-25-10, 04:58 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by coronas View Post
Yes. Only very old warships were coal burning.
Not even those. Most navies had converted their warships to burn oil by the middle of World War 1, and the British and Americans had converted their oldest ships to oil by 1930. In 1939 there were no coal-fired ships in the major navies.
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