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Chapter 207 The Era of the Ironclad Ship (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
"What a coincidence this time,"

Hearing this, Liang Mingwei laughed.

"My lord, you want to transform the "Great Eastern Ship", and I also got some inspiration from the "Great Eastern Ship"."

After unfolding the drawing, what Zhu Xianhai saw was still the structure of the hull.

"This is?"

"My lord, this is the hull structure of the "Great Eastern". When the Great Eastern was built, it pioneered the hull longitudinal inner frame structure and the double-layer grille structure, which is formed by more than 3 19mm iron plates. The double-hull, this kind of double-hull is extremely strong, when it sailed in New York, even though it hit a rock outside the harbor and scratched the hull by 28 meters, it still did not affect its navigation.”

Why did Zhu Xianhai dare to change the "Great Eastern" into a high-density immigration ship, stuffing 1862 to 60 people in the ship? To put it bluntly, it is the trust in the safety of this double-hull steamer. In [-], the "Great Eastern" was probably another "Titanic". At that time, it accidentally ran into the reefs of Long Island. This accident caused the outer hull to form a giant ship. The crack that was more than [-] times larger when it hit the iceberg, but because of this safety structure, the "Great Eastern" not only did not die at the bottom of the sea, but also arrived in New York safely with its own power.

"However, my lord, what really attracts me is its all-iron shell structure."

Liang Mingwei opened another blueprint while talking.

"Currently, whether it is the armored "mosquito gun ship" we built, or the armored ships of various countries, the outer armor is lined with wooden boards, or the iron armor is directly nailed to the wooden shell. If there is no reliable enough technology to isolate wood and iron, The result must be rotten wood and rusted armor, so I was thinking, since the "Great Eastern" is an iron ship with a pure iron hull and ribs, why can't we build a real iron-clad ship?"

A real ironclad ship!

Zhu Xianhai glanced at Liang Mingwei, good guy, his ambitions are not small. Today's warships are all "mixed structure" warships lined with wooden hulls, even with the two iron-decked warships that the company is negotiating to purchase in the UK. , also lined with 4.5-8 inches of oak behind the 10 inches of main armor.

This is the mainstream of the world, but Liang Mingwei wants to build a real "ironclad ship".

"So, my idea is to learn from the structure of the Great Eastern, especially the structure of the double-hull ship, replace the 19mm thick double-layer iron plate with a 25mm thick double-layer iron plate, and build an iron-framed iron armor "Mosquito cannon boat."

It's still a "mosquito gun boat"...

Looking at the blueprint of "Mosquito Cannon Boat", Zhu Xianhai's expression became a little complicated, but he didn't interrupt Liang Mingwei's introduction.

"...In this way, its tonnage is about 600 tons. According to Yichen, with Nanhua's current shipbuilding capacity, there is no problem at all in building an iron-hulled ship of about [-] tons. After all, none of our employees At least all have participated in the construction of the "Great Eastern", from engineers to workers."

Liang Mingwei looked nervously at the silent lord, he walked to the window, seemed to be looking at something, then turned around and said.

"About a thousand tons..."

Zhu Xianhai opened his mouth and said,

"We are currently negotiating the purchase of two ironclad ships in the UK."

"My lord is referring to the two ramming cruisers of the Confederate States that were confiscated by the British?"

Liang Mingwei said.

Last year, Captain James Bullock of the U.S. Confederate Navy ordered two double-turret ramming ironclads from Laird Shipyard in his private name to break the federal navy's naval blockade of the Confederacy.The construction of the two ships started in April of that year and were named USS North Carolina and USS Mississippi.However, the matter eventually attracted the attention of the British Foreign Office, so Foreign Secretary Lord Russell informed Bullock that if the two ships would become the fleet of a country that was at war, then Britain would not allow the two warships to be launched.

As a result, Bullock had to transfer the ownership of the two ships to a French bank. In name, the two ships would be ordered for Egypt and renamed Tusan and Manassir.But as we all know, this is just a cover, and it will definitely be delivered to the Confederates in the end.Under the constant urging of the US ambassador, the two ships were now detained by British customs.

"That's right, those two ships."

Zhu Xianhai nodded and said.

"The telegram from London shows that in order to ensure the legal legitimacy of this matter, the British Navy plans to purchase two ships. However, the Navy seems to have no extra money to buy these two ships. Considering our navy I have ordered the purchase of these two ships to meet the needs of construction."

Those are two ironclad ships of nearly [-] tons!Of course, even in this era, such two ironclad ships are not very eye-catching. After all, there are already nearly [-] tons of ironclad ships in Europe.

But this is South America!
The navy here basically uses wooden-hulled ships. With these two ironclad ships, at least in the next few years, Nanhua's navy will basically be invincible here.

After all, an ironclad ship against a wooden hull ship is a proper dimensionality reduction strike.

Although the lord did not say it clearly, Liang Mingwei still guessed the meaning of the lord's words, maybe there is no money to build a new type of mosquito cannon boat.

"My lord, I understand..."

"Understand what?"

Seeing his lost look, Zhu Xianhai smiled.

"You think I mean you won't be allowed to build new ships?"

"My lord, the two ironclad ship companies must have spent a lot of money."

"25000 pounds each, just the hull, excluding weapons."

Zhu Xianhai smiled.

"However, we don't need the weapons of the British. After all, our cannons are much better than theirs. It's 25000 pounds, which is cheap! If it's not a "second-hand ship", this price will definitely not be able to buy it! To be honest, I should thank you Confederate!"

"25000 pounds is really not expensive!"

Only then did Liang Mingwei heave a sigh of relief, it didn't look like it cost much.There is still hope for a mosquito gun boat with an all-iron structure.

"However, you cannot buy a navy by buying ships. The future navy must build its own ships as much as possible."

The lessons learned in the simulator are too profound. After the United Kingdom and the United States embargoed Nanhua, its own weak shipbuilding industry made it difficult for the Nanhua Navy to make up for the losses in the war. This is why Zhu Xianhai will increase investment in shipyards, introduce a large number of talents and The reason for the device.It is to promote the construction of shipyards and have the ability to self-build ships in future wars.

"Your idea of ​​building an iron-hulled warship is right, we thought of it together."

Zhu Xianhai said,
"However, you also know that the mosquito gun boat is what we sell to others to earn money. At most, it is just to accumulate a little technology, but if we use it ourselves, we must not use such a small boat. What we need is a warship with navigation capabilities. Not the kind of small gunboat. Of course, it can also sail, but the seaworthiness is very poor, so since we have the ability to build a ship of about a thousand tons, why not consider a larger ship? Of course It can be built a little later, but there is not much difference between 600 tons and more than [-] tons! After all, it is a start.”

When saying the word "after all", Zhu Xianhai waved his hands to emphasize his tone.

"After eliminating all difficulties, we will be able to build larger and more warships in the future!"

　In the past two days, I have been a little bit stuck. Today there are only two updates. Another day will explode!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)