oil-fuel

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.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Inside the chart-house, besides the usual fittings for its use as such, there is a companion-way to the engine-room, and a hatch over the manhole to the main supply tank for oil-fuel.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Forward of the watertight bulkhead of the engine-room we have, in the lower hold, the main store of oil-fuel, contained in tanks (marked O) of various sizes, on account of their having to be placed among the numerous diagonal stays.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

With their oil-fuel reserves completely destroyed and their food stores all but wiped out, it is feared that those still living cannot long be expected to survive in the twenty-below temperatures -- fifty degrees of frost -- at present being experienced in that area.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

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.

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

Its purport was comparatively unimportant, something about oil-fuel on arrival in harbour.

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

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.

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

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.

The War in the Air 1906

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.

A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden Donald Maxwell 1906

Forward of the watertight bulkhead of the engine-room we have, in the lower hold, the main store of oil-fuel, contained in tanks (marked O) of various sizes, on account of their having to be placed among the numerous diagonal stays.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900