Royal Navy became oil-addicted thanks to Churchill
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 6:43 pm
He made the famous "dreadnoughts", but once I have read somewhere, that also older ships which are not worth ("liners" which were not build as warships, so an upgrade is not worth), however I read that they used a method of "soaking" (?) the coal into oil or the oil to be sprayed somehow with crude oil, in both cases of course to have an piece of coal which absorbed oil and would burn longer and with more energy/heat...
I even had for 1 class details, for example:
fuel: 470 tons of coal, 30 tons of oil or so...
anyone got further information about it? No question it was the reason which gave the allies in WW 1 an large advantage against the coal fired German "Kriegsmarine", and Germany like in World War 2 never could get even close enough oil to act like the US or British Empire (back than in WW 1 it was still a super power)... Germans would never have flown the maximum distance with reduced bomb amounts to reach targets, but the US aircrafts did so in some cases, the almost unbelievable amount of the bombers made it... today hard to think about since some smaller countries give orders for 6 to 12 modern jets or so... and these turboprops in WW 2 were produced each by ten thousands, the successfull ones, and B-17 or B-24 I think both had 4 engines... so I think over 200,000 engines + reserve/depot engines were made for one of these 2 bombers.... oil was sooo important in these wars...
I have no numbers for WW2, but for WW 1 at the beginning consumption has been 100,000 barrels per day worldwide! At the end of World War 1 this increased to 300,000 bpd... at the end of WW2 I think the world production was around 10 million barrels daily already, and the US have been the "Saudi Arabia" for ~100 years (~1859 to the 1950's)... and after WW2 another over 25 years prices close to 1 US-$ a barrel, no wonder we are addicted to oil so heavy....
I even had for 1 class details, for example:
fuel: 470 tons of coal, 30 tons of oil or so...
anyone got further information about it? No question it was the reason which gave the allies in WW 1 an large advantage against the coal fired German "Kriegsmarine", and Germany like in World War 2 never could get even close enough oil to act like the US or British Empire (back than in WW 1 it was still a super power)... Germans would never have flown the maximum distance with reduced bomb amounts to reach targets, but the US aircrafts did so in some cases, the almost unbelievable amount of the bombers made it... today hard to think about since some smaller countries give orders for 6 to 12 modern jets or so... and these turboprops in WW 2 were produced each by ten thousands, the successfull ones, and B-17 or B-24 I think both had 4 engines... so I think over 200,000 engines + reserve/depot engines were made for one of these 2 bombers.... oil was sooo important in these wars...
I have no numbers for WW2, but for WW 1 at the beginning consumption has been 100,000 barrels per day worldwide! At the end of World War 1 this increased to 300,000 bpd... at the end of WW2 I think the world production was around 10 million barrels daily already, and the US have been the "Saudi Arabia" for ~100 years (~1859 to the 1950's)... and after WW2 another over 25 years prices close to 1 US-$ a barrel, no wonder we are addicted to oil so heavy....