raharris1973
Well-known member
On another forum, someone remarked:
Is this true?
Was Japan's Navy still coal-fired/coal-fueled through WWI, 1914-1918?
When did Japan switch to oil fired engines for its warships?
What other navies were still coal-fueled in these years, and when did they switch, and reach an engineering point, where they couldn't go back to the old type of fueling?
Is there any way Japan, or any other country, could have deliberately avoided the transition from coal fuel naval ships to oil fueled ones, at least exclusively oil fueled ones, for a few decades? What would have been the technical engineering and navigational or tactical performance or financial cost trade-offs of doing so of deliberately staying old-fashioned about warship, merchant ship fueling?
One difference between Japan in World Wars One and Two, was that Japan had a coal powered navy in World War One, and had access to a good amount of coal domestically and in the Empire, including excellent steaming coal from the anthracite coal mines in Korea, and ITTL, the Shandong peninsula in German occupied China.
Is this true?
Was Japan's Navy still coal-fired/coal-fueled through WWI, 1914-1918?
When did Japan switch to oil fired engines for its warships?
What other navies were still coal-fueled in these years, and when did they switch, and reach an engineering point, where they couldn't go back to the old type of fueling?
Is there any way Japan, or any other country, could have deliberately avoided the transition from coal fuel naval ships to oil fueled ones, at least exclusively oil fueled ones, for a few decades? What would have been the technical engineering and navigational or tactical performance or financial cost trade-offs of doing so of deliberately staying old-fashioned about warship, merchant ship fueling?