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PT Boats and Sub Chasers - 11/19/2016 12:00:11 PM

anglonorman

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These boats have extremely low endurance but I would like to deploy some of them to the south Pacific. Given their low endurance I am thinking they can't make the trip across the pacific either from San Francisco or Pearl Harbor. Is there a way to do this?

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RE: PT Boats and Sub Chasers - 11/19/2016 12:16:57 PM

spence

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You can put the sub chasers in a transport TF: they'll slow it down cause they'll refuel every day. Don't put them in a TF that needs to get somewhere fast. The PT boats can be deployed/redeployed at any US base that has enough supply points: look down at the right bottom for a button that says "add PT boats". Be advised that you don't get extras right away though. (Barges can be deployed by a similar button too when they become available).

You can put PT boats back into "the pool" too by disbanding a PT TF and then finding the "return to pool" button when looking into the in-port section of that base.

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RE: PT Boats and Sub Chasers - 11/19/2016 4:08:32 PM

anglonorman

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Interesting. So the Transports will refuel them during their trip across the Pacifc??

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RE: PT Boats and Sub Chasers - 11/19/2016 4:39:12 PM

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You can refuel everything (I think) except submarines with xAKs, AKs, APs and so forth. At sea, both sides. It's something to always have in the back of your mind, they come in handy sometimes. They can only share their own fuel, not any they are carrying in stowage.

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RE: PT Boats and Sub Chasers - 11/19/2016 11:23:14 PM

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Refueling at sea from an AK (etc) is very much unlike the transfer of fuel by a Replenishment TF. In the former, given a calm or nearly calm sea the AK trails a hose over its stern from its own fuel tanks to the ship to be replenished. The two ships steam along at just a few knots stearing a course least likely to put a strain on the hose.

In the case of a replenishment TF the oiler and the ship to be fueled steam side by side at 15kts or so about 100 ft apart on any course desired (chosen by the "mission TF". The oiler passes the fuel hoses and a "highline" from which the hoses are suspended to the ship to be refueled and tensioning by the receiving ship keeps the hoses out of water entirely. This type of refueling operation allows the ships to advance along their actual mission track at something like decent speed and allows for fueling in all sorts of weather. Steaming along with a couple of 10s or thousands of tons 100 ft apart is kinda "hairy" but was developed before WW2 by the USN and became standard operating procedure during the war (not all USN oilers were equipped to perform in this manner at the very beginning of the war).

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