500-ton Oil Fuel Lighter

Class overview
Builders:
Operators: Royal Australian Navy
Built: 19131916
Completed: 4
Lost: 1
Retired: 3
General characteristics
Type: Oil Fuel Lighter
Length: 156 ft (48 m)
Beam: 30 ft (9.1 m)
Depth: 14 ft (4.3 m)
Capacity: 550 tons

The 500-ton Oil Fuel Lighter was a class of oil fuel lighters built for the Royal Australian Navy between 1913 and 1916.[1]

Design

The lighters were 156 feet (48 m) in length, 14 feet (4.3 m) depth and 30 feet (9.1 m) breadth and cost about £18,000 each to build.[2] The hull included 10 oil tanks, separated by air spaces and coffer dams, which held a capacity of 550 tons of liquid fuel oil.[2] Sleeping accommodation and a saloon were also provided in the forward portion. Two sets of diesel engines with centrigual pumps discharged the fuel oil from the tanks.[2]

Oil fuel lighters

Notes

  1. Wilson
  2. 1 2 3 "New Oil Lighter". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 January 1916. p. 10. Retrieved 22 December 2011.

References

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