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Underground Oil Fuel Installation, Dover Harbour

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Nemo:
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.

johnfilmer:
Imagine filling them up at £2 a litre  :o

stuartwaters:
Wow, they are huge....

Nemo:
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/

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