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Steam-powered submarines of WWI
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- Sharlin 11y agoOf course, modern nuclear submarines are steam-powered too :)
- dredmorbius 11y agoObserving where in the article this is in fact noted becomes a test of reading comprehension and comprehensiveness.
- chrisbennet 11y agoI guess I failed. I couldn't find it.
- mitchty 11y agoIts the last sentence it isn't exactly hidden.
- bjcy 11y agoIn his defense, the last sentence is sandwiched between two ads, not exactly the most reader friendly place to end your article.
- binarycrusader 11y agoIt's the very last sentence of the article. Hard to miss.
- vlehto 11y agoThe oil fired steam propulsion was standard for larger warships of the era. In the 30's engineers started to install internal combustion diesels to large ships. But the oil fired steam still persists. (When power/weight is more important than fuel consumption, but internal combustion turbine is too expensive.) This hints that it was designed to be large. And steam propulsion was selected because large enough diesels were not available.
- fit2rule 11y agoNuclear-powered, but steam-driven.
- aidos 11y agoWow, that's quite a history. There's more detail on the Battle of May Island here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_May_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_May_Island The damage on Fearless, which sunk the K17, gives a little insight into the pandemonium http://www.rfyc.org/wp-content/uploads/BattleMayIsland_Fearless1.png http://www.rfyc.org/wp-content/uploads/BattleMayIsland_Fearl...
- Gravityloss 11y agoWhy would an oil fired steam turbine be a bad solution for a submarine, compared to then contemporary diesels? Fast ships did use oil fired steam turbines, not large diesel engines - so why not submarines? What are the differences? How many of the accidents are really attributable to the steam turbine? The article is a little shallow on that point, I think it's an interesting question. Why were so many holes needed? I think quite many of these histories tend to "a new plane was designed and made, it was faster than the previous ones, it was used by these units for these years." You don't learn much.