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Rick
 
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Default Operator's Card: What's a "motor"?

wrote:

If you want to get picky, internal or external combustion "motors" are
correctly called engines, not motors.


OK, let's get picky. A diesel powered ship is a motorship.
They have been called that by the entire world of regulators
and engineers for close to a hundred years.

Rick