>"Driving his ship to its utmost, Souchon brought it

>>33866775
There are no coal powered warships.

A burst tube cause a loss of steam and steam pressure until it can be plugged. Even when plugged, the loss of heat transfer area means your boiler output is reduced. So this is a typical military officer who doesn't understand what he is doing and does not accomplish his aim.

>>33866775
And thry kept working because they could be killed or worse as punishment.
Most sailors will put forth almost superhuman effort if needed, but this sounds like a waste.

>>33867266
>There are no coal powered warships

Anymore, you mean?

Cause there was a whole era of warships that were powered by coal

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>>33866775
>Barbara Tuchman
>Believing a woman when it comes to history

Lol no.

>>33867593

Tuchman has forgotten more about History than you'll ever know

>>33866775
>We have to steam faster, I hear banjos

>>33867295
Or you know, get shelled and die from not going fast enuff

Why couldn't they just use the water to cool the room?

>>33868380
Because it needs to be hot to make steam

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>>33867465
Capitalism fuck yeah.

>>33868771
Fuck off commie

>>33868818
I was being serious, it's kickass.

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>>33868340
The ship in question is the Goeben, which could easily handle anything it came up against

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>>33870157
Interesting that under Turkish service, this ship lasted until the 1950's. They offered it to the Germans as a museum ship, who of turned it down (can't have anything from that period to be proud of, of course). It was eventually scrapped at some point in the 1970s ... which is pretty amazing for a ship built before WWI.

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>>33867440

Some very nice artwork being posted here. Battle of Jutland, I presume?

>>33867320
even submarines, trust the brits, called K boats

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The dream of coal lives on in the Russian """""fleet""""".

Rumored that nuke subs can run their reactors at war emergency power.
Basically a death sentence for the reactor crew as they need to keep the reactor from melt down while radioactive steam is coming out of the seems

>>33874918
First ship I was on had something called the 4 hour rate. If you ran your mains at that rate, they would self destruct within 4 hours. Our top speed was 14 knots, 4 hour rate could get us up to 16.

>>33867925
Criminally underrated.

>>33867320
Hell, the Russian flagship is coal powered.

>>33875006
Engineer here.
All equipment is designed with a certain lifespan in mind, which dictates the stresses the platform can take. If lifespan is of no concern (you're going to be sunk so you have nothing to lose), you can generally squeeze quite a bit more power out of any plant, under the understanding that you're wearing it out significantly faster than it was meant to and if you survive it will need to be rebuilt.
The best example of such 'extra power' is the USS Samuel B. Roberts, which was designed for 24 knots but achieved around 29 by not caring.

>>33867662
Like the basic mechanics behind a direct drive steam turbine, apparently.

You don't bust a pipe in your primary boiler and maintain speed. It's like an Olympic sprinter running so hard that his ankles snap, he's not going to keep running

>>33873277
K-Boats were oil fired