I think ive figured it out. This is going to be very arbitrary, but some of the data seems to correlate.
Heres what im thinking:
(based on numberous sources, I also took the first boat of the class in decidinig fuel capacity)
Class/ fuel in Gallons:
Porpoise 93,129
Salmon 96,025
Sargo 90,000
Tambor 93.993
Gar 96,365
Gato 97,140
Balao 94,400
(NOTE: Math is not one of my stronger points)
If you were to use 96,000 gallons of fuel as a base line to equate out to 12,000 NM at 10 kts then:
96,000 / 12 = 8,000 gallons per 1,000 NM. So then.
MaxFuel / 8,000
That would (theoritcally) mean, and im rounding the results:
Porpoise 11.64 or 11,640 nm
Salmon 12.00 or 12,000 nm
Sargo 11.25 or 11,250 nm
Tambor 11.75 or 11,750 nm
Gar 12.05 or 12,050 nm
Gato 12.14 or 12,140 nm
Balao 11.8 or 11,800 nm
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