recoaling

Then, we may never expect any such ship to attain any such speed as seventeen, eighteen, or twenty miles per hour on so long a voyage without recoaling.

Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey

Deep-draught Displacement, employed on a passage of 3,250 nautical miles, without recoaling: showing also the prime cost Expenses per ton of Cargo conveyed.

Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey

They were to be given coal capacity that would enable them to cruise for great distances without recoaling.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

The recoaling of ships is a difficulty which must be met by improving the methods of that operation, not by sacrificing the military considerations which should control the size and other qualities of the vessel.

Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles 1877

When to the need of constant and sustained ability to move at high speed is added the necessity of frequent recoaling, allowing the hostile navy time to come up, it is evident that the active use of a

Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles 1877

The design of these two ships, meant for speed, involves this lack of facility for recoaling.

Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles 1877

In it is involved both coal endurance and facility for recoaling; for each economizes time, as speed does.

Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles 1877

The second requisite to be fulfilled in the battleship is known technically as coal endurance, -- ability to steam a certain distance without recoaling, allowing in the calculation a reasonable margin of safety, as in all designs.

Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles 1877

Cervera's escape, made it expedient to retain there many of the lighter cruisers, which, moreover, needed recoaling, -- a slow business when so many ships were involved.

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The length of its passage across the Atlantic, however increased by the embarrassment of frequently recoaling the torpedo destroyers, so far over-passed the extreme calculations of our naval authorities, that ready credence was given to an apparently authentic report that it had returned to Spain; the more so that such concentration was strategically correct, and it was incorrect to adventure an important detachment so far from home, without the reinforcement it might have received in Cadiz.

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