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RFA TIDE Class fleet tanker

A nice shot of an 'old' TIDE Class fleet tanker cruising through a long swell in their classic submarine profile. They were great ships, incredibly strong and well-engined but very, very wet in anything of a sea or swell. TIDEFLOW regularly steamed at over 19 knots for days in 1971.
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Nice shot.
 

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As an elect/eng I regarded the old Tides as a nightmare - 220v dc with fd fans whose bearings went on a fairly regular basis, try changing those in the tropics. My lungs have given problems ever since.
 
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It is a shame they were d.c. I'm sure that contributed to the lack of modernisation and their early demise. There hulls were strong and they had stacks of power.
 
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They had replaced the oil bath bearings with split roller or ball bearings when I was on them but did you ever have to change an armature at the top of the boiler room in the tropics? We had lost a boiler and then the F.D. fan packed in on one of the two remaining main boilers. Ditto with the lungs.
Sandy.
 

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