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That's the ultimate form of curmudgeony. Nuke boats are bigger, the only thing coated in oil is the engine room, and water is easily made and available, but hell, I'll just take misery because that's the way it was and we liked it!
We had a hard time making water in the Persian Gulf. The distillers were rated to 100 degree seawater inlet temp and the gulf had 110 degree water. Our output went from 70k or so to about 20k a day per unit. (They were 100k gpd units but you rarely made that much). 20k is barely enough to even provide reactor feed water makeup so they put the ship on water rations. We in the engine room said the hell with that, we're making it, and we're standing here in 130+ degree heat to do so, we're showering and drinking the multiple gallons a day required to not die.
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