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Fuel drenching a fellow sailor's jacket (7)

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I believe the answer is:

peacoat

'jacket' is the definition.
(peacoat is a kind of jacket)

'fuel drenching a fellow sailor's' is the wordplay.
'fuel' becomes 'peat' (peat is a kind of fuel).
'drenching' means one lot of letters goes inside another (drench can mean to swamp or surround).
'fellow sailor's' becomes 'co' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a'+'co'='aco'
'peat' enclosing 'aco' is 'PEACOAT'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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