The Rise of the European Emperor

In order to ensure the confidentiality of Cork Port and the possibility of ships from other countries appearing on the route from Cork Port to North America, Marin decided to station a fleet of 10 warships in Cork Port.

Just use level 250 armed merchant ships, but equip all of them with 20 cannons instead of just a few cannons like merchant ships. As long as there is a ship trying to approach this route, it will immediately fire a warning. If the warning is not heeded, it will be sunk.

Marin estimated that the six Calais ships in France have almost formed combat effectiveness now. Maybe, they will take the initiative to provoke. Marin did not want to interfere in the battle between the Calais ship and the British Kirk ship, but he would never allow those Calais ships to approach Cork Port and the route from Cork Port to North America.

In the future, Marin also plans to station a fleet of 20 warships in Cork Port to cruise the southern waters of the route from Cork Port to North America. In addition to guarding against foreign ships seeing clippers, there is also guarding against French merchant ships venturing to North America.

Historically, the adventurous merchant ships of the French went to Canadian waters. Moreover, they are often actively involved in the beaver fur trade in Canada.

In fact, the latitude of France and Canada are basically parallel. The French merchant ships can reach the east coast of Canada as long as they go straight westward on the Atlantic Ocean.

It is also very interesting to say that the latitude of France is obviously very high, which is the same as the latitude of eastern Canada and Northeast China. However, France is a warm area, while Canada and Northeast China are bitterly cold.

This is related to the influence of ocean currents. Because of the influence of the North Atlantic warm current, although Britain and France have high latitudes, they are both warmer than Northeast China. The situation in Canada is more complicated, divided into two situations - Newfoundland is the dividing line, and the north is affected by the cold current of Labrador, which is properly as cold as the outer northeast. On the other hand, the south of Newfoundland is relatively warmer due to the influence of the branch of the North Atlantic warm current (the main stem is deflected to the east and slanted to Europe). The confluence and collision of warm currents and cold currents also formed the Newfoundland Fishing Ground on the east side of Newfoundland Island. In the same way, the Hokkaido fishing ground was also formed after the confluence of the Japanese warm current and the thousand island cold current.

Fortunately, Marin has maliciously demonized the Americas, which has caused the current Europeans to be unimpressed with the Americas. But after all, the fire cannot be contained in the paper. Just like this time, the French are about to send people to the Delaware Peninsula to investigate, forcing Marin to let Kahn and the others play orcs.

Marin has been dragging the French and preventing them from going. Kahn and the others have almost finished the practice, and are ready to go to the Delaware Peninsula to familiarize themselves with the venue and practice there many times. When the people sent by France arrive, they will be able to play on the spot.

But in any case, after this time, the French who have been to the Delaware Peninsula can feel the suitable climate in North America. Despite the intimidation of the orc drama, I'm afraid it can't stop the French's determination to take risks. after all,

Marin can find the Delaware Peninsula and resist the attack of the "orcs" by building the Great Wall. Why can't France?

Even if only a few people dare to take risks, and most of them are personal actions, it is worth being vigilant. Therefore, in the future, Marin intends to deploy 40 warships in Cork Port to fully patrol the west coast of France. As long as there are ships that want to go west to America, once they leave the French coastline, they will be sunk mercilessly. Then, all the Frenchmen on board were killed, leaving no one alive.

As long as they are far away from the mainland of France and do not leave any survivors, the French just want to make trouble, and Marin can also push two five six and throw the pot to the legendary "pirate"...

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In order to successfully build the flying shear ship at the new shipyard in Cork Port, Marin selected a group of capable shipbuilders from the local Emden Shipyard and moved to the Cork Port Shipyard to be responsible for the flying shear. Manufacturing of boats.

Marin has already "designed" the blueprint of the clipper ship and drawn it into a pattern. Including the bow must be hollow, also marked out.

It should be pointed out that the clipper ship "designed" by Marin is very different from the original clipper ship. Most of the original clipper boats use full sails, that is, horizontal sails are the mainstay, and longitudinal sails are supplementary. In this way, the clipper ship will not be unable to travel when it encounters a headwind.

Of course, that was an early clipper ship. In the 20th century, in the later period of the clipper ship, the top gaff sails were basically used uniformly.

Before, when Marin was refitting a 250-class armed merchant ship, he had people study the upper edge gaff sail and fin stabilizer. Moreover, they have all been researched.

Now, it is just possible to apply the technology of gaff sail and fin stabilizer to the flying shear boat.

After using these two technologies, Marin's clipper ship will surpass the "Wyoming" in the early 20th century and become a fast and stable clipper ship.

You know, the clipper boat, which reached its peak in the early 20th century, was born at an untimely time. Although they are very fast, for example, the 6-masted clipper "Wyoming" with a displacement of up to 9,100 tons can reach a speed of 16 knots in the downwind and more than 10 knots in the headwind, which is very fast. However, because the hull is too "thin" and a large number of vertical sails are used, the hull is subjected to a lot of side wind.

Usually it's okay, but once it encounters a storm, it is easy to roll over and capsize. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were several shipwrecks in which large schooners capsized. At the same time, due to the steady progress of steam engine and diesel engine power, the clipper ship has withdrawn from the stage of history.

But in fact, anyone familiar with the history of navigation knows that clipper ships have bad luck. Because, after the clipper ship withdrew from the stage of history, an artifact to make up for the shortcomings of the clipper ship was born, that is, the fin stabilizer...

The concept of fin stabilizers was proposed in 1889 and a patent was applied for. However, it was not until 1923 that Shintaro Motoyoshi of Japan designed the first set of fin stabilizers and applied them to ships. Later, in 1935, the British also applied fin stabilizers to ships. Since then, fin stabilizers have been widely used.

In later generations, almost all ships with relatively fast speeds were equipped with fin stabilizers. Because, the warships of later generations have a much more exaggerated aspect ratio than clipper ships.

The aspect ratio of the clipper ship is 6:1, which is considered very "thin". However, the 052 destroyer of his later generation is 142.7 meters long and 15 meters wide, and the aspect ratio is almost 10 to 1, which is very exaggerated.

Of course, the destroyers of later generations all have several pairs of stabilizer fins. At the same time, they are all mechanically powered, without the use of more dangerous schooners, and are not easy to roll over.

As for the clipper ship that Beihai State plans to build, Marin has prepared three pairs of very primitive stabilizer fins, which are manually controlled. Although it is backward than the fin stabilizers of later generations, it greatly increases the safety factor of the flying shear ship.

A clipper ship without fin stabilizers is almost "hesitantly" speeding forward on the sea. However, the existence of fin stabilizers can make the high-speed clipper ship much more stable, greatly reducing the chance of capsizing.

Moreover, as a means of transportation for the North Sea State to convey news and transport precious materials, Marin also plans to install four 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engines at the stern of some clipper ships. In the event of a storm, the clipper boat will lower its sails and rely on diesel power to survive the storm. Wait until the storm has passed before reusing the sails. In this way, the safety of the clipper ship is further improved.

Of course, only a small number of clipper ships that convey important military information and deliver precious materials under Marin's command are eligible to be equipped with diesel engines. After all, there are not many diesel engines in Marin's hands now, and there is even a lack of mechanical systems that can manage and maintain diesel engines.

Therefore, only the clipper ships that transmit emergency military information and transport precious supplies can be equipped with diesel engines, and equipped with several mechanics to manage and maintain the diesel engines.

After using the gaff sail, stabilizer fins, and equipped with spare diesel engine power equipment, Marin's clipper ship dares to be called the "most advanced" clipper ship in history. This is compared with the clipper ships of the original clipper ship era in history, not with ships of this era. Because the level of ships in this era is really too backward. Compared with them, even if Marin's new clipper boat wins, it is not as good as it is. "Most advanced ever" clipper boats are only worthwhile when compared to authentic clipper boats from the 19th and early 20th centuries...

Because the average speed can be three times faster, which means that in the future, whether it is transmitting military information or transporting precious goods from Ming Dynasty, the speed will be three times the original speed. Originally, it took two years to go back and forth, but it only took more than half a year to get it done. Moreover, because it adopts the "most advanced" technology in history, its safety is much higher than that of the original flying clipper ship in history.

With the greatly shortened travel time, Marin's ability to control the American colonies can also be greatly enhanced. In the past, it took more than four months for ships to travel between North America and the mainland, but now, more than one month is enough to go back and forth...