King of Mercenaries Chapter 259

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:17:52 AM

On this day, Marin is signing and stamping all the documents sent by Jeffrey. (The seal is not popular in the West, only signatures are popular. But Marin was used to stamping in previous lives, so the documents are reviewed and signed with a seal) . Suddenly, a document caught his great interest ...

This document states that two new ships were launched in the shipyard of Tholencher, Texel ...

"The shipyard on Texel ..." Marin fell into his memory ...

Speaking of which, this shipyard has been established for more than two years. Construction started from the end of 1496, and the factory was formally established in early 1497. At the beginning, the shipyard consisted of several ship builders hired by Portugal and hundreds of serfs familiar with carpentry.

In 1497, the shipyard hardly built a sea ship. Under the command of the Portuguese shipbuilding masters, serfs who have never built ships, build small boats and small fishing boats there every day, and are familiar with ship structures and shipbuilding techniques ...

Later, Marin exchanged 200 shipbuilders from the Venetian. Since 1498, this shipyard has officially started manufacturing sea ships ...

However, Marin asked them to build the Galen boat of the British in the late 16th century. The Portuguese are only familiar with the two models, the Karak and the Caravel. The Venetian artisans are even more sad, they will only make paddle boats suitable for the Mediterranean ... As for the serf apprentice artisans, let alone, nothing will be ...

In the end, the three parties worked together to create two "monsters" ...

Two good 200-ton ships combine the characteristics of the three boats, the Karak sailing, the Caravel sailing and the Venetian paddle sailing. It sounds very comprehensive, but in fact it is not like ...

Then, because the design is not reasonable and the craftsmanship is not good enough (mainly hundreds of novices are involved), it caused the ship to jump around when it sailed at sea. Of course, this is not the kind of flying shear ship because the speed is too fast, hopping at sea, but purely because the structure is irrational, slow and easy to shake and jump-this is clearly asymmetrical structure on both sides, processing The technology is not enough, and the design is not reasonable ...

全年 Throughout 1498, this new shipyard wasted time on these two "jumpers". This also led to the fact that when Marin wanted two merchant ships on the Teutonic Order, he had to order two Kirk sailing ships at the shipyard in Lubeck.

Alas, the shipyard is not in despair. After the successful construction of these two "jumping boats", the hundreds of novice shipbuilders finally had the experience of building large ships.

As for the "jumping boats" that were obviously not suitable for big voyages, Marin finally dealt with them to fishermen at low prices and used them to fish in the North Sea.

"Jump and Jump" is not very stable when sailing, which makes people seasick, but this is not much for fishermen. Because their boat bumps more severely than the "jumping boat" when it encounters wind and waves. At least, the jetty is very large and stable, and it is not easy to be overturned by the wind and waves of the North Sea. Moreover, the larger the boat, the larger the trawl net can hold more fish.

年底 At the end of 1498, Marin sent two ships to the Teutonic country to do business, in addition to bringing back a lot of money, but also a lot of Eastern European shipbuilding oak (the drying time is long enough). So, the second batch of two ships laid the keel again at the shipyard ...

In June 1499, two new ships finally launched ...

According to the reported documents, the two new ships, according to the new weights and measures promulgated by Marin, have a displacement of 250 tons ...

"Two 250 ..." Marin was a little bit speechless about this tonnage. You can get 240 tons or 260 tons, why use 250 ...

However, after the new ship was launched, it completely overcomes the jumps of the two ships last year, and the navigation is very stable. So the shipyard sent someone to tell the good news ...

Marin was very interested, and quickly gave an order to let the two ships come to Emden port and let him see for himself ...

A few days later, Marin saw the two "250" new ships in the port of Emden ...

After seeing the boat, Marin did not feel excited, and of course, he was not disappointed ...

Marin repeatedly emphasized that they made the British Galen ship. Even, he also gave them the data of the later "Constitution" sail ship as a reference.

In this era, the general aspect ratio of Karak sailing, Karaville sailing and Kirk sailing were around 1: 1. For example, Columbus discovered the flagship "Santa Maria" in the Americas. The length is 23.66 meters, the width is 7.84 meters, and the aspect ratio is very close to 3 to 1. Da Gama's flagship "San Gabriel" has a length of 27 meters and a width of 8.5 meters. The aspect ratio is also close to 3 to 1.

The "Constitution" in Marin's memory, with a length of 62.2 meters, a width of 13.6 meters, and a length-to-width ratio of 4.57 to 1, is much thinner than sailing boats of this era. Of course, it is much faster. You know, the speed of the "Constitution" can reach 13 knots. Sailing in this era is generally around seven or eight knots, and the Clippers do not exceed nine knots.

Of course, the "constitutional number" appeared relatively late, and it was the end of the 18th century. At that time, the design philosophy of ships also tended to be thinner and faster. In the middle of the 19th century, a flying shear ship that "drilled" at sea was directly produced. Its length-to-width ratio directly reached 6 to 1, and it was "thin" as hemp. However, because it is too "thin", the clippers cannot even install artillery. Because, for such a "thin" ship, if there are shore firearms on the side, the reaction force of the artillery volley can almost overturn the flying shears ...

Marin obviously did not want to fly the ship early, because the ship did not have any protective capabilities and was easily robbed by pirates. The Clippers in the mid-to-late 19th century were okay because the British Empire's warships were spread over every sea area at that time, hunting down pirate ships everywhere, resulting in greatly improved air route safety. If the pirates were rampant in the 17th and 18th centuries, would you try flying clippers? What Captain Drake, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan ... send the fleet to stop you on some important routes in a minute, and then put the sailors into sacks and throw them into the sea. As for the property, grab a shot ...

Therefore, even if a flying shear ship is made, it is mainly used for communication, and cannot be used to transport too valuable property. Unless, there are enough warships to cruise on this route. Otherwise, once the ship is stopped by any means, it is no different from the lamb to be slaughtered.

Of course, it depends on where. For example, in a sewer-like channel like the Malacca Strait, a clipper can easily be stopped. Clippers can be stopped in places like the English Channel or Gibraltar Channel if there are enough ships. But if you are on the Pacific and want to intercept a clipper ship, you have a dream ...

两条 The two ships that appeared in front of Marin, in Marin's view, were not the British Galen he wanted, but the Spanish Galen ...

船 The aspect ratio of this ship is about 3.5 to 1. It seems that the designers still did not listen to Marin and regarded Marin as a lay leader who "does not understand chaos" ...

However, the bow tower was demolished in accordance with Marin's suggestion. However, the stern dungeon was retained ...

Ms. Marin asked the designer who came with the ship to ask, but the old Portuguese designer was buoyant—the need for naval warfare, and the captain also needed to board the tower to observe the sea situation ...

"Nima ..." Marin was so angry that he wanted to yell at people-still needing naval warfare, which clearly stayed on the old idea of ​​fighting on the side ...

As for the captain's observation problem, as long as a watchtower-like platform is built on the top of the stern building, there is no need to build such a wide three-story building. This is a lot of wind resistance ...

Moreover, when observing the sea situation, you can also send a few hard sailors to climb on the mast to observe. Of course, this is slightly dangerous.

Even Marin had seen this kind of observation in the past: a thick flagpole was built on the top of the aft stern tower, and a wooden box similar to an elevator was hung on the flag rope. The captain or chief mate needs to climb up to observe, directly drill into this wooden box similar to the elevator room, and then several sailors raise the wooden box to a high place like a flag, and let the captain or chief mate go up to observe with a telescope. After the observation, a few sailors lowered the flag ...

The design of the tall ship's stern building is obviously the thinking of the Spanish ... wrong ~ www.novelhall.com ~ This is originally the thinking of the Portuguese. The Spanish only made more ships of this kind than the Portuguese. For the Spanish Galleon ...

He really is a designer born in Portugal. Marin has provided specific data. He also made a ship of the type "Spanish galleon" ...

不管 But in any case, the design of these two ships has surpassed other ships of this era. According to estimates, the speed of the two ships also reached 9 knots, which was only one quarter behind the 10 gallons of the British Galen.

Marin boarded the ship and sailed for a long time, and found that it was much more stable than the last jump and jump boat, and the Kirk sailboat made by Lubeck was almost stable.

However, in the layout of the artillery position, the old Portuguese designer has committed another slap. The gun positions he designed turned out to be mostly stern, mostly distributed on the stern of the stern. Then, four guns were placed on the bow. As for the mid-side side, there is basically no gun position, and there is no lower artillery deck that opens the window to extend the muzzle ...

What makes Marin speechless is that, according to tradition, the toilet on the ship is actually set up below the bow ...

一旦 Once sailing, sailing will inevitably face the wind. However, the smell from the toilet in the bow directly flew along the oncoming wind ... The taste was "sour" than the old godmother ...

According to Marin's knowledge, the subsequent flying shears and bow parts were specially made hollow to facilitate the bow to float, suitable for "jumping" during navigation to reduce seawater resistance.

Looking at the stubborn old Portuguese man with the expression "I am professional, you are amateur" in front of him, Marin made up his mind-next time, if this old man dare not listen to his opinions, the shipyard director will Do it obediently. Next time, we must make an English galen ...

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