USE OF COAL BY SHIPS
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Change From Oil Would Help Defence Forces
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(Received 17, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. A confefence has opened at the Board of Trade to consider the move to save Britain's oil snpply by reverting from oil to coal for certain classes of flhipping. It is pointed out that 47 per cent. of merchattt ships depend on oil, including a large number of tramp ships, The entire combatant navy usea oil exclusively and the Royal Air Forc© and a great part of of the army depend ott oil for mobiiity. The question of supply in. ease of emergency has therefore become one of tiational impei'tanoe, and any reduction in the demand for oil would ease the burden on naval defence, and release warships proportionately from convoy duty, and of coufse, benefit the coal trade. It is believed that all tramp vessels and much other shipping tnight advan* tageously revert to coal.-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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163USE OF COAL BY SHIPS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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