Author Topic: Underground Oil Fuel Installation, Dover Harbour  (Read 2049 times)

Offline Nemo

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Re: Underground Oil Fuel Installation, Dover Harbour
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2022, 05:22:47 PM »
I think this has worked, gives you a flavour at any rate.  I was never sure about the 4" diesel oil pipeline to Deal - if only because St Margarets Bay is in the way. The Installation closed on 1.4.1968, having last been used operationally in October 1962.  Each tank ("cell") nominally held 15,000 tons fuel but leakage was known to occur above certain heights of fuel and lower limits were therefore imposed.

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Re: Underground Oil Fuel Installation, Dover Harbour
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2022, 02:31:33 PM »
Imagine filling them up at £2 a litre  :o
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Re: Underground Oil Fuel Installation, Dover Harbour
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2022, 11:36:16 AM »
Wow, they are huge....
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Underground Oil Fuel Installation, Dover Harbour
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2022, 03:34:47 PM »
A number of photos of this former Admiralty installation appears in the Port of Dover Flickr account. They include the inside of one of the cathedral-sized tanks and the access tunnel to them.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/125438003@N07/14421379926/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125438003@N07/14443212562/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125438003@N07/14257860868/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125438003@N07/14444473835/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125438003@N07/14257915390/