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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 10, 2021. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Captain John Fenwick Hutchings was in charge of Operation Pluto, the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel during World War II? | |||||||||||||
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In England, the PLUTO pipelines were supplied by a 1,000 mile network of pipelines built during the war at night to distribute fuel from ports including Liverpool and Bristol.
Were they built at night or used at night?
Is it really "Pipelines" and "Oceans" or are either singular? Rich Farmbrough 09:23, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Pipeline Under The Ocean is also the second album by New Zealand band Pluto.
Some measurements in this article are given as 'Mg/km' and 'Mg'. I assume Mg is meant to be Mega-grammes? It's a very unusual usage - SI unit of mass is the kilogramme (kg).
== Eventual Fate?
Afabbro 18:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Presumably the steel section was raised, cut up and melted down. Observantcynic (talk) 19:55, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
There is no mention of the role of the Corby steelworks. I can remember there was a pub called The Pluto in the town. Complete with a picture of the underwater pipeline. The town of Corby is about to (or has) named roads, squares after the pipeline. Check out http://www.northamptonshire.co.uk/guides/corby/ I know the tube was produced in secret but it is a little bit crazy keeping it off Wikipedia after all these years!
Observantcynic (talk) 19:55, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
The Wiktionary entries and the images seem relevent. The first page of links for all the others seems a jumble of irrelevant stuff!
Would like it to be elevated - or even nominated for main page. 212.188.108.188 (talk) 13:39, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
I know from people that live in some bungalows in Leonard Road, Greatstone in Kent that they were used to house PLUTO pumping station(s) that pumped the fuel via PLUTO to France. Our understanding is that the fuel went from Greatstone to France direct ie not via Dungeness. This would seem to have been the case since the pumping station(s) were housed in Greatstone and not Dungeness. Could the writer of the article please say why he/she feels PLUTO went from Dungeness and not Greatstone? Peterfaulkner92 (talk) 11:50, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Archive footage of the ConunDrum in use is shown during episode 17 ('Morning') of The World at War. Is this sufficient for inclusion in this section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dajon (talk • contribs) 04:21, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Remember reading somewhere that the Germans were well aware of the pipeline and wanted to inject corrosive liquids to break the pipes. 94.29.10.104 (talk) 20:33, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Found a decent pic, but lack the skills to add to the Wiki:
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib/38/media-38445/large.jpg?action=d&cat=photographs
135.196.94.75 (talk) 14:01, 9 December 2014 (UTC) FW 09.12.14
https://web.archive.org/web/20201112042753/http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/38/445/large_000000.jpg Comfr (talk) 06:34, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Is the title "History of, A Romance of Seventy-Five Years" correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.162.222 (talk) 15:07, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
This is ridiculous. Either the person giving the interview wasn't being literal or someone is just vandalizing. This is an old joke about steam engines vs diesels, and it should not be treated as fact. When it comes to the actual power output at the bollard, there is no difference between a diesel and a steam tug. A diesel is geared down, both have identical propellers and rpms at the propeller; this is the only point of interface with the water as far as pulling. It's not like a diesel engined tug is going to lug down and stall or something. Utter bollocks. In fact, I'm just going to remove it, because if I don't, I'll come back in 4 years and find it's still there, just like the "photo of the very old pack of Camel Cigarettes" that someone pointed out as very obviously a picture of a counterfeit pack of Camels... "Dromedary" brand, no less...back in 2013: and it was still there when I saw it. AnnaGoFast (talk) 01:05, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
From the way they keep calling it an "oil" pipeline, one must assume they brought their own refinery equipment over to France and set it up on the beaches to convert the oil fuel to something they could actually use, like petrol. Since vessels were pretty much the only vehicle that could burn "oil" back then, and diesel engines were few and far between in the Allied military. I would think it would simplify things greatly if they just pumped petrol under the seas, and didn't rely on the hard to build and easy to destroy refinery in France. In fact, in one place...but only one place....in the article it actually SAYS they pumped "petrol", but the rest of the time it just talks about "oil", which usually means something different these days. And while I'm here, the whole thing sounds like a massive waste of effort and resources, typical of much of the Allied effort. It's a good thing they had so many resources to waste (largely thanks to the US) and they could still win the war on what was left over. Well, win "their share" of the war; if they hadn't had Russia to keep 80% of the Germans occupied, they might have had to focus a little more. AnnaGoFast (talk) 01:20, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
"Operation Pluto" or just "PLUTO" ? GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:05, 27 March 2021 (UTC)