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Originally Posted by CCIP
none of the diesels in the more modern Fleet Boats drive the shafts at all, but rather just generate power for the electric motors.
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Wait wait wait, just to be clear about this: fleetboats were like destroyers, where the burning of fuel (in DDs case, in boilers as to generate steam, whereas in subs there were piston engines) was intended to provide electrical power at all times - meaning that the prop would always be driven by electric engines ? I was under the impression that fleetboats, as U-boats, directly transmited mechanical power generated by the piston engines to the shaft, and that propulsion was geared to the electric engines only when submerged. Isn't that so?