otnmbrd wrote:

Only on Navy combatants .... otherwise there'd better NOT be any
sal****er in those main storage tanks .... water, maybe some (from the
fuel) but not sal****er.

On the big ships I did contract work on, more than a few (maybe half?) had service
or ready tanks and transferred fuel daily. The really big diesels are apparently
capable of gulping in a few gallons of seawater now & then. The steamships aren't
any problem at all unless it is a big enough slug of water to put all the burners
out at once. Of course it's pretty bad for the machinery, but why complain when we
were making so much money fixing it?

A good thing, too. The wipers are *supposed* to check the seperator bowls at least
hourly, but I used to put notes on the seperators in big letters "Bring Me This
Note Immediately Upon Finding... $5 Reward" and had the whole watch go by.



Main reason on larger vessels is to clean and for heavy fuel, to get to
right temp.

Just this past weekend, I was explaining to a guy with a big motorsailer what a
"cleavage manifold" was. That's always been one of my favorite terms!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King