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Originally Posted by NEON DEON
Yes the U S fleet boats had diesel electric drive. They ran off electric engines all the time. Another thing the fleet boat could do was shift into reverse on the surface automatically as oposed to the U Boat direct drive which had to disengage the diesel engines on the surface and engage the electric motors to reverse on the surface. So the fleet boat could back one engine while running the other engine forward and basically turn the boat in place.
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That's good to know, I wonder if we'll be able to do that.