Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 264" video.

  1. “What’s the range?” “A solid rugby punt.”
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  2. “In those days?” Then, as now, oil is lifted in crude form in thousands of fields around the world. Most of those fields do not have their own refining facilities. That crude oil must be shipped to a refinery, then shipped to end-users. In WW2, the bulk of refining capacity in the world was in the US. Many, many tankers went from oil fields around the world to the US, then out again. Almost any tanker en-route to US was carrying crude oil. There were a lot of tankers. Many of those were sunk.
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