Hello there,
I'm looking for info about the amount of aviation fuel that BBs and CA/CLs carried for their floatplanes. There's a lot of data for various classes of CVs on this topic but very few for other aircraft equipped ships. All I found was about Iowas: 22.8 cubic metres. I would be grateful for any help
Aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
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Re: aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
Bismarck 34 t
Scharnhorst 25,5 t
Scharnhorst 25,5 t
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Re: aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
That're 40 cubic metres.Thorsten Wahl wrote:Bismarck 34 t
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Re: aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
Herr Nilsson wrote:That're 40 cubic metres.Thorsten Wahl wrote:Bismarck 34 t
..... It depends upon whether that "34t" figure is expressing pure weight or reflects stowage capacity. 1mt (2,204.62 lbs) = 1 cubic meter = 35.314cf for cargo stowage purposes.
If the 34t (almost certainly metric tons) figure represents weight, then, given that gasoline is lighter than water, 40 cubic meter makes sense.
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Re: aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
In the Kriegsmarine aviation fuel ("Benzin-Benzol") had a specific weight of 0.85 in weight list calculations.
Bismarck had 4 tanks with a total stowage capacity of 40,000 l.
Bismarck had 4 tanks with a total stowage capacity of 40,000 l.
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Re: aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
Thanks a lot. On ww2forums i got figures for Vittorio Veneto : 17t
That's 4 classes of battleships but nothig about cruisers
thank you for help once again
That's 4 classes of battleships but nothig about cruisers
thank you for help once again
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Re: Aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
The amount carried is surprisingly uniform across navies and ship types (excluding carriers); ships tended to carry around 2000 gallons per aircraft. That's US gallons, not Imperial gallons. Aviation gas weighs about 6 pounds per gallon so that's about 6 tons of avgas per aircraft. This 2000 gallon per aircraft even seems to apply to those submarines that carried aircraft. There were 47 aircraft carrying submarines that had an average of 1.3 planes each. The average of avgas carried was 2596 gallons carried or almost exactly 2000 gallons per plane.
Re: Aviation fuel on battleships and cruisers
I believe that some of the hilfskreuzer carried rather more aviaton fuel in view of the timespan of their voyages, but I haven't seen precise figures on this.
Also the specialist German naval tankers such as Altmark/Uckermark carried substantial cargo of such fuel - in the case of Uckermark played a significant role in the ships destruction in Yokohama.
Also the specialist German naval tankers such as Altmark/Uckermark carried substantial cargo of such fuel - in the case of Uckermark played a significant role in the ships destruction in Yokohama.
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