The wood used for the slides and piers is provided by the Bobu Timber Factory. In addition to the wood cut from the coastal mangroves, there are also many large beams and columns obtained after the houses were demolished in Goujiazhuang, which is just right.
Facilities used to build shipyards
The general slide wood needs to be American pine with a diameter of 30*30, which of course is not available here. Fortunately, ordinary wood can be used instead. However, the length of 40 meters is relatively rare and requires multiple pieces of wood to be spliced. The splicing is suitable for the mechanical department.
It's not difficult to say, but the approval procedures are a little more complicated - any use of metal materials currently requires approval from the Planning Commission.
In order to simplify the difficulty of ascending the pier, the slideway is arranged longitudinally. The electric winch can easily burn out due to overload when ascending the pier. Such accidents are common even in shipyards. For inexperienced people like them,
It is safer to use a pot machine to drive the winch.
After the winch is solved, the biggest problem is the ground dragon. The so-called ground dragon is a large pile buried horizontally in the ground. When the winch pulls the hull, the ground dragon serves as the focus of all the forces and has to bear a huge pulling force.
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The ground dragons in shipyards are mainly made of reinforced concrete and steel pipes filled with concrete. In the past, wooden ground dragons were commonly used. The requirements for this ground dragon wood are very high, and they must have a high degree of solidity and corrosion resistance. Generally,
Choose thick hardwood with a diameter of 30-50cm and a length of no less than 3 meters. It must also undergo a series of dehydration and anti-corrosion treatments.
Finally, Wu Kuangming from the wood team found a suitable piece of wood for him from the stockyard. It was a kind of hardwood from Southeast Asia. It was nearly 50cm in diameter and had high corrosion resistance. It could be used directly without any treatment.
"This thing can be made of coffin material. I'll give you a local dragon." Wu Kuangming said reluctantly.
"Why, you also want to enjoy the treatment of a wealthy landlord?" Yan Quezhi teased him.
"Hey, that's not true. But all those who worked with wood in the past knew that the wood used in coffins for wealthy families is the best. It belongs to the type of wood that will not rot in the ground or water. Taking it away from you is like digging.
You've eaten my flesh."
After all the devices are installed, preparations begin for the pier to be ascended. The pier is a technical job and very dangerous. Work-related accidents are very easy to occur in the shipyard during this process.
"You all listen to me!" Wu De looked at the various people below who had just been summoned. "Going up to the pier is a dangerous job. You have to keep an eye on me at all times when you are working! You are tied to the rope.
If it hits you, you will be hopeless!"
Then he went through all the precautions. In fact, Wu De himself didn't understand it, but he had at least seen it in the village and participated in the work on the fishing boat. In addition, it was a book from the computer.
I found an ancient reading book called "Simple Ship Repair Technique". Whether you can successfully climb the pier depends entirely on Wu De's memory and whether the knowledge in this book is accurate.
Everything that could be disassembled was removed from the ship, including the mast to lower the center of gravity. The traction rope was a steel wire rope disassembled from the Fengcheng wheel - a hemp cable made by a wood processing factory that resists tension.
The test proved that the strength was not enough. The slide was already covered with lard - this was the only grease that Wu De could obtain that solidified at room temperature. Wu Nanhai was so distressed that so much lard was transported away that he was half-dead. How many people had to be killed?
Only a pig can get so much oil!
There were fifteen or six people at the scene of the pier. Although this work was very dangerous, Wu De did not ask any members to do it. This work requires constant communication. No matter how good the Mandarin of the members is, after all, they are not from the same era. What if?
Misunderstandings or delays can lead to immediate loss of life.
"Power on!"
The steam engine had started early. Following Wu De's command, the winch began to rotate slowly driven by the flywheel. The iron chain on the ground dragon began to tighten, and the wire rope creaked and rubbed against the pulley block. The wooden structure ship
The strength is limited, and the steel wire rope is tied to the stern of the boat.
As the winch rotates, the wire rope is completely tightened, making a squeaking sound. Wu De is a little worried: nine out of ten casualties in the pier operation are related to the breakage of the tow rope. Once it breaks, the consequences will be huge.
The powerful wire rope will sweep out like a whip, and workers around will be knocked flying. Whether they can survive depends on luck.
The steel wire rope was taken from the Fengcheng ship. Theoretically, there would be no problem if it was used on a wooden ship of over 100 tons. Even so, the sound was still very scary.
"The ship is moving forward!" came the observer's report over the intercom. Two-thirds of the people involved in the operation on the pier were observing in all directions to avoid any deviation.
As the steam winch rolled, the ship swayed and moved slowly from the water to the shore. The ship was heaving heavily in the waves, and it looked really worried.
"Slow down the winch and hold it steady." Wu De kept reminding on the intercom, "Everyone, keep an eye on the direction of the ship. Aim at the slipway."
The first time I approached it, I was really biased. This kind of work is also handled by specialized technical workers in the shipyard. Of course, it is impossible for non-professionals like them to succeed in the first time.
"Don't worry, everyone, let's do it again. Everyone check the steel cables."
Every time we start over, we have to check the steel cables. If there is no pier on the ship, at best there will be no ship. If something goes wrong and people die, they will never be able to survive again.
After almost five hours of repeated fiddling, and everyone present shouting hoarse in order to align the ship's position, the ship finally stopped steadily on the ship's frame. Wu De couldn't care less about being happy, and quickly directed everyone to move the slide to the ship's frame.
The lard scattered around was picked up again and put into earthen jars - it would be used again when the ship was launched.
"Oh my god, this oil is all black, it's really disgusting!" The people from the Navy Department looked helpless.
"I smell a bit of fried food."
"That's because the friction is heating up. Do you have an appetite?"
"Can this thing be used again? It has to be very pure. There is sediment in it."
"Just boil it and then filter it. Wu Nanhai even came here specially to say that if the oil can no longer be used, it must be returned to him."
“The canteen is also preparing to use gutter oil!”
"It is said that they are going to make soap, but I am not interested in using this black soap either."
The renovation work was completed in less than a week. All the bullet holes were sealed with wadding, and the larger defects were re-reinforced with wood. At the same time, the sea life on the bottom of the ship was cleaned up, and a layer of tung oil was applied. The Navy prepared
Add artillery to it - at least leave a place for the artillery. Originally, the pirates mounted the cannon on the deck, made a hole in the bulwark as a firing port, and then covered it with a shed with little protection.
.Now the weapons enthusiasts in the mechanical group have moved the gun positions below the deck, which can lower the center of gravity. There are 4 gun positions on the left and right. In the future, 2 to 3 guns can be installed on the deck. The disadvantage is the freeboard of this ship.
It's not high enough, so it's easy to splash water from the gun windows when driving in strong winds and waves. Fortunately, there are porthole guards, so the problem isn't too big when there's no fighting.
But there is no artillery - the problem of the ballista in this battle was fully exposed. The nature of the ballista itself determines that it is a projectile weapon, and the trajectory is often high, which brings great trouble to aiming. Secondly, the shooting frequency is extremely slow, and each shot is very slow. The ballista had to be cocked by two gunners on the left and right at the same time. It took more than a minute to fully cock the ballista, which was very physically demanding. In the end, it was much larger than the artillery.
"What's so strange about this?" Chen Haiyang said, "If the ballista is really as magical as some people in the mechanical department boasted, why did the Navy replace it with a 'crude', 'bulky', and 'dangerous' artillery? Obviously no matter how bad it is, The cannon is more effective than the best ballista."
"We need real cannon! Even if it's muzzleloader," Mond howled.
Mond successfully sailed the ship into the harbor, and was once accompanied by flowers and applause. But now that the ship can no longer move, he has been reduced from the much-anticipated captain to a left-behind member of the Fengcheng ship. In addition to maintaining equipment on the ship, the most important thing is His job is to patrol the bay with a small boat.
It took a long time for me to board the Yingzhou ship before I could see the possibility of returning to the center of the stage. However, because I knew little about traditional sailing ships, Lin Chuanqing took away the captain's position. Now I board the Yingzhou ship. In the world of the North American Gang, he really has no interest in messing around with this group of people. After much deliberation, he can only stand out if he builds a fleet. Now that he has a new ship, he will spare no effort to promote his " "Fleet" plan: constantly publicizing that traversers should establish a coastal fleet of sail-gun ships, asking the navy to get more budget and more manpower, and even asking for the construction of multi-turret BBs - this call quickly gained the support of hundreds of traversers. Agreed, even by many members of the industrial sector.
The Executive Committee ordered the staff group of the military department to evaluate this problem. After a comprehensive analysis of the local garrison, pirates, equipment and traffic conditions, it was concluded that whether it is pirates or the Ming army, large groups of troops will basically use sea transport to attack. If you take the land route, you will also advance along the coastline. The traverser cannot control the entire Qiongzhou Strait at one time, but must also have the ability to fully maneuver along the coastline - after all, the traverser has a small number of troops and is particularly mobile. important.