FEEDING WARSHIPS.
Our great battleships, cruisers, destroyers and transports consume enormous Quantities of coal when. as now, they are day and night tuned up to concert pitch On active service. Having in view the amount of steaming now done by our ships, and the high speed at which they have to travel, it is estimated that the fuel bill is somewhere in the neighbourhood of ten million pounds a year. The coal-burning destroyers of the "11." class, ran up fuel bills of some £4,500 each. Some two years ago the most costly vessel with regard to fuel was If.M.S. Lion. Sir David ISeatty's battle-cruiser, which ran up a bill for £3i>,r>s7. Tin l four "I" class battle-cruisers all totalled over £20,001), as did the pre-Dreadnought armoured cruisers, Defneie, Drake, Natal, and Hampshire.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 191, 14 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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132FEEDING WARSHIPS. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 191, 14 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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