After spending a lot of time, Lin Mo and his party arrived in Zhenjiang, but instead of finding anyone to join them, they went to the other side of the Yangtze River in Zhenjiang City, near Guanyin Island on the Guazhou Ancient Canal.
The small steamer was docked next to a large iron ship on a fork in the river. The small steamer was to serve as a ferry for this large iron ship. Near the two ships, there was another ship that was two meters larger than the Li family's small steamer.
times more than motor boats.
The motor boat is the one used to escort prisoners, but it has undergone a new makeover. Everything from the portholes, deck, guardrails, to the layout of the internal cabins, interior decoration, etc. have been changed. Didn't you know that this is that boat?
, Lin Mo couldn’t even recognize it.
After the crews of the three boats met on the big iron boat, Lin Mo gave the captain of the motor boat an address and asked him to cross the river to the other side to pick up the people. He briefly greeted the people on the iron boat and became familiar with him.
This large iron ship was also seized before. It originally belonged to a large shipping company in Hankou. The company mainly operates routes in the Huguang area, operating both passengers and cargo. This ship is the company's signature passenger ship.
This shipping company openly operates the shipping business, but secretly has a relationship with the Japanese. It purchases and transports food, minerals, etc. for the Japanese locally, and conspires with the Japanese to engage in smuggling, cigarette trafficking, and other activities. At a deeper level, it also works for the Japanese.
Japanese intelligence organizations collect local hydrology, shipping routes and other information, transport arms, cover up the whereabouts of Japanese spies, etc.
He is still quite powerful in the local area, and it is difficult to defeat him by relying on the Intelligence Bureau alone. However, the overt and covert businesses he operates in the local area have affected the interests of the high-level national government's interest groups engaged in import, export, and smuggling. After receiving relevant information, he
, directly instructed the Intelligence Department to take it down.
Of course, only those family members and shipping companies involved in secret business and colluding with Japanese intelligence agencies were captured. Moreover, the shipping company's only passenger ships were inspected by the intelligence agency. There is no need to say much about its trading channels, relationships, and where the cargo ships went.
Word.
This ship is an inland river passenger ship that he purchased from Guangdong and manufactured by a Hong Kong company. It has been built for a long time. It was first operated by a shipping company in Guangdong. Later, due to local unrest, shipping was seriously affected. After changing hands several times, it was bought by a shipping company in Hankou.
The company purchased it, spent a lot of effort and opened it back up, and it became the flagship of its passenger transportation business.
This ship is relatively wide, with a total length of about 42.67 meters, or 140 feet, and a width of about 9.75 meters, or 32 feet. It has a displacement of about six to seven hundred tons and a total of four levels of cabins.
This ship was recommended by Lin Mo to be retained, and some corresponding modification plans were proposed. It was envisaged that when the future headquarters operations department performs larger and longer-term operational tasks in the field, it will mainly be used for the special operations group and the second operation group.
, the ship can be driven to the surrounding areas and used as a transferable command and logistics, communication, foothold, repair point and other purposes.
This is very practical. After all, ships can wander around and change locations, and the only options for settling in local towns are hotels or safe house offices. If the enemy pays attention, it is easy to leak the news of whereabouts, and a settlement
Although boats are not everything, they at least provide one more option.
This ship has not been renovated in Nanjing. The repair shop there has relatively limited technology. Many ships of the Intelligence Department of the two are repaired there. Although they are not in the same company, they are still worried about being discovered and spied on by the Japanese.
Relevant circumstances.
Zhenjiang was chosen for renovation. Zhenjiang has a high level of shipbuilding since ancient times. It was established as a trading port in the 11th year of Xianfeng. Some industrial enterprises developed. In the 13th year of the Republic of China, the first shipbuilding in Zhenjiang history was built.
Iron-hulled steam passenger ship, this was already ten years ago.
It’s impossible to say how strong Zhenjiang Shipyard’s repair and maintenance level is, and it’s even just a repair and build level, but it’s not a problem to renovate and renovate their ship, which mainly means repairing the internal cabins, overhauling the machinery and equipment, and re-routing the lines.
These.
The power system is basically the same as before, but the driving force is not sufficient. The previous shipping company mainly traveled in areas covered by the two lakes and lakes, and running on the river was not very suitable.
But this is not due to the power system. The ship is also powered by a steam engine. However, a ship built in the British colonies actually uses German power equipment, and it is also suspected to be military steam power equipment produced by Germany during the European War.
It is very likely that the British dismantled the German warship after the war, sent the power system thousands of miles away to the other side of the world, and loaded it on an unknown civilian ship. The British could definitely do this kind of thing.
The reason why I say it is suspected is because the nameplate is suspected to have been replaced and the inscription has been worn. This situation was discovered because the intelligence department was more generous, but the construction period was short. The repair shop found a Jiangnan factory engineer through connections to check it.
I once studied in Germany and recognized that the steam engine looked like the type of steam engine mounted on small military ships in Germany during the European War. I then made inferences based on those doubtful points.
After overhaul and refurbishment, the power system is in good condition. The original reason for insufficient power was mainly due to the poor coal-fired fuel used by the former shipping company and poor inspection and maintenance work, which seriously affected the ship's power.
However, even if it is in good condition, the power is only barely sufficient, and it basically meets the needs of the ship. Fortunately, the Intelligence Department sent two fuel engines that were dismantled from the captured spy ship and asked them to be converted into generator sets to strengthen
Ship's power supply.
The power that the two modified marine fuel engines can supply can be said to be extremely abundant. Coupled with the suspected military power unit, there is still sufficient performance redundancy to ensure durability and reliability.
The engineer gave a modification plan to increase power, and installed an electric-driven coal supply device. Coal supply is secondary. The main thing is that it can spread coal evenly throughout the combustion chamber, burning faster and more efficiently.
It can provide more heat to the steam unit, and can even spray fuel, which can be diesel or even heavy oil, on the coal during the coal transportation process to further increase the output power.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There are also a series of supporting improvements and adjustments such as electric blowers. The Intelligence Department naturally agreed. The reason for not changing the power system is not that there is no need for higher speed, power, etc.
, just because of the cost and the fact that coal-fired ships are more low-key and inconspicuous. Since it can meet some of the needs in this regard without too much cost on the original basis, there is no reason to refuse. When necessary, this ship really needs to be able to
Run faster.
The ship was officially completed and delivered about ten days ago. It is currently sailing around for testing and running-in, but I never imagined that it would be needed to function so soon.
The captains, pilots, engineers and other crew members on the ship were all recalled secret personnel. They were all secret personnel who were placed on some ships or developed from the crew. Lin Mo could see the importance of waterways in intelligence activities, so he acted naturally.
It was foreseeable that some arrangements had been made for a long time, but they did not achieve much results, or Lin Mo didn't know what results they had.
Some of these crew members have returned from completing their missions and happen to have shipping-related skills or operations, but no suitable job arrangements. For example, they are mechanics, who once served as an assistant to a marine mechanic.
He was developed and majored in mechanics. He was responsible for machine maintenance in a factory. He was later assigned to a seagoing ship and worked as an assistant to a mechanic for more than a year. He was recently recalled after completing the task. He has professional knowledge and
With considerable business experience, he has been basically qualified to work as a mechanic in more than a year.
The original plan was to arrange people to study mechanics, and then arrange them on the ship. One was because there were no other suitable candidates, and the other was to let him take the opportunity to bring out some people. After all, some previous cases had proved that there were a lot of fishy things on the waterway.
Some crew members were recalled because their identities were exposed. It was no longer meaningful or even dangerous to continue to stay. This was the case with the captain. He finally became the captain of a ship running along the inland rivers of Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong and other places, but his identity was exposed and he had no choice.
Run away.
There were also several crew members who, due to mistakes in judgment or intelligence, were recalled after staying on the ship for a period of time and found that they could no longer play any role, and were assigned to work on this ship.
There are also some crew members who were trained on the ship. Most of them were recently recruited and trained by the Intelligence Department and arranged to join the ship. The purpose of the training is self-evident.
As for the remaining crew members, they are normal crew members who have been on the ship for a long time and are managed in a relatively closed manner. The management requirements are similar to those inside the prison, except that they can disembark normally and interact with outsiders during normal times.
There are four levels of cabins, and the one below the deck is the negative level, which is mainly the engine room, coal bunker, cargo tank, oil tank, water tank, sewage tank, etc. In addition to these conventional cabins, there are also special cabins such as cold storage and ice storage.
To be precise, they should be called cold storage room and ice storage room. There are refrigeration equipment installed on the ship. These two warehouses are not small in design. The original design was to store vegetables and meat, but due to the limited refrigeration capacity and the high power consumption,
Using electricity on a ship means using oil!
It was too expensive to keep the refrigeration equipment running all the time, so I changed a storage room into an ice room, which can be filled with ice cubes. The two are next to each other, and the intervals are replaced with materials and structures with strong heat dissipation. The ice room is used to maintain refrigeration.
If the refrigeration equipment is turned on for half an hour every day, it can ensure that even in the summer in Jiangnan, the temperature of the refrigerator room can be maintained at around zero degrees for a long time.
The first floor of the ship mainly contains the kitchen, equipment room, training room, restaurant, bathroom area, medical room, injury room, sentry duty lounge, etc.
The kitchen and dining room are in the forward and middle sections, the equipment, the training room are in the middle and aft sections, the washrooms and bathrooms are in the aft and front sections, the duty lounge is in the aft and middle sections, and the medical care and injuries are at the stern.
The restaurant with the largest space is called a dining room, but it actually also has a large conference room, a large office, study and rest, etc. The style of the tables and chairs is a bit like the integrated tables and chairs in a modern school restaurant, except that this one is fixed, and
There is a chest-high partition between the front and rear, and there are four or eight seats. There are distinctions between soft sofa seats and hard wooden seats. People who don’t know better will just think this is a cabin when they look in from the outside.
Large meetings with a large number of people can be held with the partitions removed. Normally, there will be some areas without partitions. Ordinary team members can also do their work, read materials, discuss summaries, etc., read and study here, and take a break and drink tea.
Being here, as for drinking, don’t think about it. Boarding this ship or not getting off yet means that the operation is in progress, and alcohol is prohibited.