On 19Jun2020 1334, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) wrote: > Also, somewhere else (maybe MT) the idea of external demountable tanks > was introduced. > These if used were carried into jump thus increasing the displacement > tonnage but if not needed could be demounted & left behind. The Gazelle-class close escort has had them since forever. -- Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>