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Updated: July 25, 2025
The North Atlantic squadron was the sole American force on her eastern shore, it was returning from a friendly visit to France and Spain, and was pumping oil-fuel from tenders in mid-Atlantic for most of its ships were steamships when the international situation became acute.
They, having escaped the really bad weather, had arrived the evening before, and one of them made a facetious signal to this effect as the destroyer secured to the tank steamer to replenish her supply of oil-fuel. The lost sheep had returned to its fold.
Its purport was comparatively unimportant, something about oil-fuel on arrival in harbour. But finding out the meaning of those flag signals which he did not know by heart and he knew most of them was only a tithe of his duty.
She might burn coal in her furnaces instead of oil-fuel, and every ounce of coal had to be shovelled on board from a collier by manual labour, whereas, in an oil-driven destroyer, one simply went alongside a jetty or an "oiler," connected up a hose, and went to bed while a pump did all the work.
There were Thornycroft motor-boats and Sennacharib goufas, mahailas and Thames steamboats, an oil-fuel gunboat and a stern paddler that could have come out of a woodcut of the first steamboat on the Clyde and all these in the same reach. I travelled in this last extraordinary vessel for a short time.
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