| ID: | 24914 |
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| Entry Text: | Wildenberg, Thoms. Grey Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea, 1912-1995. Annapolis: NIP, 1996, xii, 342 pp. Folio; noted as equivalent to 18th & 19th centuries water boys which sustained British blockades; 1st use of merchant tankers, 1st World War, fueling for destroyers enroute Europe. |