SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post

Tom C · 07-31-07, 08:35 AM

Hi Frank, are you still involved with PTC? I haven't looked in on that in years.....

I just happened to be reading a chapter in Galantin's "Take Her Deep!" last night where he mentions the fuel ballast tank conversion added 24,000 gallons.

I don't know but that sounds to me suspiciously like an explanation for why the fuel capacity for Gato/Balaos is sometimes given as 115,000 gallons (more or less) whereas Tambors (with almost identical hull, only 2 feet shorter I think?) is usually given as 93,000 gallons (again more or less), around 22,000 difference. What capacities does SH4 use?

07-31-07, 08:35 AM	#23
Tom C Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 11 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Hi Frank, are you still involved with PTC? I haven't looked in on that in years..... I just happened to be reading a chapter in Galantin's "Take Her Deep!" last night where he mentions the fuel ballast tank conversion added 24,000 gallons. I don't know but that sounds to me suspiciously like an explanation for why the fuel capacity for Gato/Balaos is sometimes given as 115,000 gallons (more or less) whereas Tambors (with almost identical hull, only 2 feet shorter I think?) is usually given as 93,000 gallons (again more or less), around 22,000 difference. What capacities does SH4 use?