Sealift Command activation

[Caballoflaco]

Just some numbers for thought:

From the merchant marine website:
A pre-war merchant fleet of 1,340 cargo ships and tankers expanded to at least 4,221 U.S. merchant ships by the end of World War II.

Current number of US flagged ships excluding the 81 or so that fall under military command, 182.

From here: https://www.bts.gov/content/number-a...re-world-fleet

[JAD]

Pretty much every ship is steam powered, just the energy to create the steam comes from more modern sources than coal.

That’s kind of a strange notion. It’s true for nuke subs and carriers, but most ships are hfo, diesel, or LNG ICEs, either mechanical or increasingly electric. Here are the engines we’re working with for the project I discussed over dinner tonight:
https://cdn.wartsila.com/docs/defaul...5.pdf?sfvrsn=6