USCG-DDE-L3.3
Auxiliaries — the systems that strand you
USCG-DDE-M3 · The Plant · USCG-DDE-M3-A The machinery a DDE actually runs
Nobody is impressed by the seawater system until it stops, and then nothing else on the boat works either. The auxiliaries are where a small vessel actually lives, and they are the systems a sole engineer spends most of their year inside.
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