A viewer connects the oil-fired Queen Elizabeth-class battleships with British preparations to stockpile fuel. The reply places that stockpiling before the First World War and says oilers were available in quantity. Shore storage could become the bottleneck. At several points, tankers waited in British waters while the Admiralty finished building space for their cargoes.
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Tankers waiting for British naval oil storage
A discussion of oil-fired Queen Elizabeth-class battleships leads to prewar stockpiling and tankers waiting for the Admiralty to finish shore storage.