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Gene Kearns Gene Kearns is offline
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Default A fast 44 gallons a minute

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:12:29 -0700, Calif Bill penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCj4L160Slg


You want fast? The USS New Jersey made good with 35.2 knots on 27
March 1968.... and that is for 51,000 tons... not some wimpy little
foreign aluminium can. Fuel consumption? 187 gallons per minute at
flank speed.......

Fun Read:
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/bbma/index.htm

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