Show boats boat to burn oil washington secretary metcalf tu 6 inclined to fa favor v or the use of petroleum for fuel la in tb the e navy where it ran can bg ba done beneficially therefore plans for cor the new torpedo destroyers about to be prepared will probably include a requirement that they be ba designed toi for burning oil the fact that the newest british boats ot of this class which have hava attained the extraordinary speed ol 01 forty nilles miles an hour are oil burners laas 3 influenced our navy department in favor of the adoption of liquid fu fuel I 1 |