P.l.u.t.o. Pipeline Under The Ocean

P.L.U.T.O. PIPELINE UNDER THE OCEAN.

Read about this marvellous undertaking here:

http://www.combinedops.com/pluto.htm

Fuel for the continuing push to Germany from D-Day onwards.

Based almost entirely on information provided by Capt. F A Roughton M.B.E.​

Captain Roughton was involved in laying of the pipelines and their salvage after the war. The technical data about, and images of, the HAIS flexible pipeline are from an article written by Mr E A Beavis, B.Sc., A.I.M.E.E. and published in Seimens Brothers Engineering Bulletin No 224 dated January 1946.​

The Pipeline Under the Ocean (PLUTO) was designed to supply petrol from storage tanks in southern England to the advancing Allied armies in France in the months following D-Day. This page tells the story of the planning, development, testing and installation of the pipelines and of their contribution to the war effort.​

 

Funny, we're working on the Pluto project for Woodside Oil and Gas up in the north of West Oz!

 

Must have been a massive engineering feat in 1944! Especially the use of their present day hoses.

 

Newsreel on PLUTO bundled into this youtube clip. The PLUTO segment starts at 3 mins 30 secs:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLxUOxJXIY

 

I said hoses which should have been "flexible steel" piping.

 

There were two pipes weren't there? Didn't they have Disney character names? I know they were named i just cannot recall what they are. or was it Shakespeare names?

 

I read there were 20! Will have to check.

 

I only ever heard about 2. Hmmm.

 

You are right Kitty, there were 21? lines from different areas linking up to the two main lines.

 

Ahhhhhhhhh so I haven't gone totally insane. Good good.