True, but I find it hard to believe that there would have been enough coal, or a steam powered ship left. That or he just used a sailboat.

I'd have thought that since there was an oil shortage, it would have been natural for most commercial shipping to revert to coal so a lot of steam powered boats would have been commissioned and built in the years leading up to the war. And England does have a fair amount of coal; enough to have lasted at least a century I would have thought. But yeah, winds don't stop blowing even after a nuclear holocaust, so that's always a viable mode of transportation

It would be interesting to see some story of people living on a nuclear sub, which in a sense could run forever, and surviving for decades post-war. Food would be the main problem I guess, but a creative writer could get around that.

The main thing this makes me think of though is islands in the middle of the ocean, of which there are TONS, inhabited and not. It strikes me as very improbable that every single island in pacific and atlantic with people living on them would have been hit by a bomb. Not only that, but a ship or submarine in the pacifc could have gone to one of these islands and the crew could be living a Swiss Family Robinson-eque life there hundreds of years later.

Could make for cool side stories someday... of course, the nature of videogames makes that unlikely.

What about all of the Ships that where at sea when the Bombs dropped? In the fifty's there where dozens of Navy Ships out at sea at any given time. And with a war with China the entire Navy would have been at sea. So where did they all go? It seems that the entire world was in conflict when the bombs fell. Every Nation on earth would have ships at sea. Where do you think that they went?

That's going to be the plot for the next game... America being invaded by soldiers from Britain (which for some reason was relatively unscathed by the war) wearing special Power Armor with a little chimney on the back, and whistles. Tenpenny was a spy sent to check on what the US was like now, but he went off mission... but now that the hideously mutated remnants (well, only slightly more hideous than they were before the war admittedly) of the Royal Family know what dire straits the US is in...

Fallout 4: The Empire Strikes Back.

Then the Australian Navy would be something to fear since Coal we've got ALOT.

It isn't just Tenpenny who is from overseas, whatsisname who runs the Saloon in Megaton, he's from Ireland (supposedly). Connection?

Perhaps...steam might be most likely since the Resource Wars could've depleted coal as well, despite Oil being the only one ever talked about.

What did Ashur power the mill with? Coal would seem likely.