Daming pirates

Fortunately, the craftsmen in the boathouse are not sloppy. These two boats are quite good. After entering the cabin, the first impression is that they are solid. Thickened materials are used everywhere for construction, and the key is

The load-bearing parts have also been reinforced, giving people a very safe feeling.

After adjusting the ballast stones, the hull was immediately balanced. There was a slight water seepage in some places. This was inevitable and could be dealt with by mooring it on the water without having to go to the slipway.

The overall condition of the ship was very good. After Yu Xiaotian carefully inspected it from the inside to the outside, his expression turned cloudy. He praised Guo Fu unstintingly and said that Guo Fu was in an accident.

After that, they handled it properly and led people to rush forward in time to stabilize the hull without causing greater consequences. This adventurous spirit must still be commended.

At that time, if Guo Fu reacted a little slower and made a command error, the third boat would capsize. After the accident, Guo Fu was the first to rush up. If the others did not follow up in time to lift the log,

He alone would most likely have been beaten into pieces by the capsized hull of the ship.

This shows that Guo Fu has devoted himself wholeheartedly to the boat house for the sake of this boat house, and he doesn't even care about his life. Yu Xiaotian was very moved by this, so he ordered on the spot that Guo Fu should be credited with a meritorious service and be rewarded.

The amount of money is actually equivalent to making up for Guo Fu's three months' wages that were deducted, and also got some additional rewards.

After Guo Fu heard this, he quickly thanked him.

"No need to thank you. You should hurry up on shipbuilding. The ship on the No. 3 slipway must be righted and launched as soon as possible. In addition, standardized production must be stepped up. The next vacated slipway must be quickly loaded with new ships. The current slipway

The utilization rate is not high. Slipways No. 1, 2, and 3 are all slipways that can build large ships. It is a bit wasteful to only build fast boats of this size now.

I just measured the length of the slipway with my steps. It can just accommodate two Fei-size clippers at the same time. It's just a little shorter. Please think of a way to avoid changing the slipway without spending too much manpower and material resources.

, it is also necessary to be able to start construction of two Fei-size clippers on one slipway at the same time.

In this way, after the three slipways are vacated, the keels of six ships can be loaded at the same time. As long as the calculation is more accurate, it should be possible to solve the problem.

In addition, if standardized workpiece production is adopted in the future, the shipbuilding speed can be doubled or more. You must pay close attention to this matter.

Once the work here is full, I plan to stop the production of Feihao clippers in the boathouse on Nanyue Island, and will be responsible for renovating our existing old ships. The boathouses on both sides will then do their own thing.

position, this way our fleet can become more powerful.

With the current speed of shipbuilding and refitting ships, the production capacity of the artillery factory is much higher than that of your shipyard. It is really a waste to make the cannons that have to wait for the ship!" Yu Xiaotian waved to him.

Guo Fu said.

When Guo Fu heard this, he did not dare to agree immediately. He just said that he wanted to do some calculations first, and immediately led his men to start measuring on the vacated No. 1 and No. 2 slipways. After a while, they basically arrived at the conclusion.

in conclusion.

The length of these slipways is just enough to place the keels of two such single-masted clippers. They are just a little more compact. There is almost no free space when they are connected end to end. However, as long as it is grasped correctly, it can still be constructed. It is just the bow of a ship.

It cannot be installed before the water is launched. It must be installed after the water is launched, otherwise it will cause effects.

But generally speaking, it is still possible to start construction of two Feihao Clippers on one slipway at the same time, which they have basically been able to achieve.

In addition, when renovating the slipway, you only need to add a boom on the slipway to start production.

Yu Xiaotian was very proud that he could come up with such a method. Now he wanted to squeeze the productivity of his subordinate workshops to the maximum extent possible while using the existing facilities to produce as many things as possible.

In fact, the current workload of the boat house is quite full, but in Yu Xiaotian's opinion, the production efficiency of the craftsmen has not yet met the requirements. The backward organization and coordination have wasted a lot of productivity. Because many things cannot be done at the same time, a group of people

When they are extremely busy, the other group of people has nothing to do. They have to wait for this group of people to finish their work before they can continue to work.

Therefore, how to fully mobilize manpower and reduce the waste of manpower as much as possible is what he wants to think about next. Now the boat house has begun to adopt a standardized production method.

The standard parts used are made and then assembled on the ship, rather than made one by one. This has greatly improved the production capacity of the shipyard.

Next, if one slipway is used to load two ships at the same time, then there will be no problem in doubling the output of the sliphouse without adding too much labor.

In this way, if we calculate that according to the current production speed, the five slipways of the boathouse adopt the production method of loading two boats at the same time, combined with the help of standardized parts production, we can launch almost two Feizihao fast boats every month.

In one year, we can produce more than 20 flying boats.

Although this kind of sloop is not very suitable for use in ocean warfare, it can still be used. The most important thing is that this kind of stern is flexible, easy to operate, and fast. It is extremely suitable for use in sea operations in coastal areas. In other areas,

If you don't have the strength to carry out an expedition, this type of single-masted clipper is currently the most suitable ship type.

As long as there are dozens of these single-masted clippers, Sea Wolf can control a larger area of ​​​​the sea and easily block the enemy's ports and river entrances. Even if it is facing a large-scale enemy fleet, such a clipper can

The team can also play against it openly and will not be at a disadvantage.

Now Sea Wolf can say that their military force at sea is quite powerful, but Yu Xiaotian is not satisfied at all. He still feels that their strength is too weak and hopes to continue to increase their combat strength.

And just building new ships will not solve the problem quickly. Unless he has greater resources and more financial resources, it is unrealistic to significantly increase the number of new ships.

So his other solution is to transform the various old ships he currently has.

Some time ago, he had tried to renovate some Chinese-style sailing ships in the fleet at the Nanyue Island Boathouse. Some of these Chinese-style ships had quite solid hull structures, but due to inherent structural defects, the Chinese-style sailing ships

The sailing ship cannot be equipped with more artillery or heavier artillery, and it cannot even carry the old-fashioned engine weighing 500 to 600 kilograms.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian initially made limited modifications to the Chinese sailing ships in order to equip his ships with six-pound guns and twelve-pound guns. This limited modification mainly focused on strengthening the ship's deck and hull structure, making it

Can carry six-pound or twelve-pound guns.

However, during subsequent patrols, training and operations, some problems were discovered. Although these ships were reinforced and could carry Sea Wolf's self-made six-pound guns and twelve-pound guns, these guns were still loaded on the deck in the open air.

First of all, maintenance is troublesome. The salt spray concentration at sea is high, and iron cannons are easy to rust. They must be carefully wiped and oiled every day, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.

In addition, when the artillery is concentrated on the deck, once there is bad weather, especially heavy rain, these guns may not be able to fire due to the weather, turning them into decorations.

Furthermore, after loading artillery on the ship, the center of gravity of the ship is greatly increased. In order to maintain the center of gravity, ballast stones must be loaded for counterweight. Otherwise, if the ship encounters bad weather and the sea conditions are poor, it may collapse.

Cause overturning.

They have already paid a price for this. The first few ships they renovated have become victims and were lost to the harsh sea conditions and capsized at sea, causing great losses to both personnel and materials.

However, loading ballast stones increases the dead weight of the ship, making the hull clumsy, slowing down the sailing speed, reducing the payload, and making the ship that is not fast enough become even more clumsy. This situation makes the ship even more clumsy.

Yu Xiaotian couldn't accept it.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to carry out further transformation of these ships to completely solve these problems, which required major modifications and reinforcements to the ships.

Some time ago, he had asked Nanyue Island Boat House to do this and renovate several lucky boats.

This further transformation, in addition to keeping the original main structure of the hull and the sail structure unchanged, completely transformed the rudder, transforming the old-fashioned rudder-type rudder device into a wheel rudder

In this way, the helmsman is raised to the stern deck to mow the boat, which allows the helmsman to directly see the situation in front of the bow, making it easier and less labor-intensive to mow the helm.

At present, this kind of modification has achieved good results, and several of the modified ships are now running well, because after the modification of the steering wheel device, the ships are more flexible when maneuvering at sea.

In addition, the internal structures of these ships were deeply modified, and the artillery was moved to the lower cabin. This solved the trouble of outdoor maintenance of the artillery. In addition, it was much less affected by the weather. On rainy days,

The artillery inside the hull can still operate normally and fire, which improves the firepower for naval battles in bad weather conditions.

In addition, this also greatly reduces the center of gravity of the ship, eliminating the need to load more ballast stones in the bottom tank of the ship and reducing the dead weight of the hull.

However, this kind of transformation is relatively troublesome. It requires greatly strengthening the structure of the lower cabin, increasing the thickness of the deck that carries the artillery, and changing the cabin structure inside the original hull, which reduces the ability of some ships to resist sinking.

Also, because the artillery is moved into the cabin, gun windows must be opened on both sides of the ship. This reduces the structural strength of the hull, which must be compensated.