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One Person's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 197 Standard Fast Freighter

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    "I never thought that a freighter with such a crude design and such a simple structure could allow the earth to recreate the Age of Discovery in the 17th century!" - William Rumsfeld, former director of the Royal Naval Intelligence and Survey Office  .

    "Standard fast freighter. In fact, ever since the Chinese Empire spread this simple-to-operate and fast freighter to all the oceans of the earth like dumplings, I know that this world no longer belongs to white people.  ." Former President of the U.S. Naval Academy, former Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, Rear Admiral of the Reserve Navy, Alfred Thayer Mahan.

    At the end of 1917 and the beginning of 1918, the Oriental-class standard fast freighter appeared on the sea in time and space No. 3. This all-steel high-speed steam freighter was designed, researched and manufactured by the space-time expeditionary force by gathering the wisdom of several time and space. It used a large number of  The emerging technologies and various design ideas are very complete. All the designs seem to be very mature. The extensive application of the technology that has been improved many times in the hull design makes this type of ship become popular almost as soon as it appears on the sea.  Demonstrated its unparalleled strategic advantages.

    The power of this ship uses heavy oil boilers that have just begun to mature at this time, combined with advanced gas turbine technology, which brings the performance of this shipping power technology to its limit at this time. The entire hull has a large length and width of 1:7  The ratio was also unimaginable in terms of freighter design at the time, and the long and narrow shape looked so graceful.

    It can be easily seen from the hull that is close to the size of a cruiser that this is a fast cargo ship that takes speed as its main development direction.  In fact, the sufficient power provided by the steam turbines and heavy oil boilers on board does allow this large cargo ship, with an average empty load of about 8,000 tons, to have unimaginable high speeds.

    The first sighting report of this freighter on the sea was provided by sailors on the British Empire freighter "Lady Mary" on the southern Indian Ocean route in January 1918. The report stated that its speed had reached at least 30 knots.  It was therefore identified as an unarmed experimental warship, but was ignored because the information was too vague.

    Her official appearance was at the Port of San Francisco in March of the same year.  Because it entered the port disguised as an ordinary cargo ship, it did not receive much attention.

    It was not until the summer of 1918 that the British Royal Naval Intelligence Bureau began to investigate the surge in piracy cases and found that this class of ships had appeared as pirate ships many times. After verification and verification by the U.S. Navy¡¯s military intelligence department, it was confirmed that this class of freighters possessed a huge number of ships.  The power and perfect design made the top speed of this class of ships even comparable to the top speed of the mainstream light cruisers of the Royal Navy at the time.

    at the same time.  By comparing the captured pirate ships with similar freighters, it was found that this class of freighters had armed transformation interfaces when they were built. It seems that only the weapons need to be fixed on the interfaces to complete the armed transformation. Its multiple cargo compartments are designed to be directly used as ammunition.  library to use.  It can be said that this is an unarmed light cruiser with a large cargo warehouse.  And during the world wars.  Many freighters of this class have been converted into light cruisers or assault ships to serve the navies of both sides of the war.

    Once launched, the ship was well received by users and had a huge number of orders. China's many shipyards seemed incredibly capable of absorbing such orders. Until 1938, when production was completely suspended, the ship was active on the entire ocean.  It is estimated that there are at least 800 ships, and there is accurate information that more than 170 of them are owned by pirates and transformed into pirate ships.  It became synonymous with pirates throughout the first half of the 20th century, commonly known as the "Great Pirate Age".  To this day, modified and evolved versions of this kind of freighter can still be seen in occasional piracy cases.

    Now, while the entire world has been gloriously integrated into the embrace of the great Ming Empire, enjoying this hard-won peace and prosperity, this class of ships still maintains the world record for the highest speed of a cargo ship.  And her No. 1 ship is still sailing on the sea as the personal cruise ship "Orient" of His Majesty the Emperor.

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    The standard fast freighter is the final solution proposed by the empire to deal with the problem of insufficient transportation capacity, in order to simplify the adaptation of space-time personnel and maintenance on the third space.  The Space-Time Expeditionary Force simplified the design of the ship and built a fast freighter with an extremely simple structure and fully suitable maintenance for this era. It also provided ample space for multi-purpose modifications on this kind of freighter.

    At the same time, the operation of this kind of cargo ship is much simpler than that of ships of the same era. It takes almost a little knowledge of navigation. After a few months of simple training, it is enough to drive this completely fool-like ship.  Even so, the freighter's crew requirements were much smaller than those of other ships of the era, averaging only half the normal number.  This greatly reduces the need for pilots and makes the training of pilots for this class of ships cheaper.  Because of the large number of freighters of this class in the Federation,and laid the foundation.

    As an emergency construction ship with a simplified design, the construction of this class of freighters is undoubtedly simpler. Most ship manufacturers in the empire with intermediate qualifications and above can produce the modules of this ship and finally assemble it and put it into the sea.  Coupled with the contribution of His Majesty the Emperor's own space transportation quota, the number of such ships exploded in a short period of time on the world's oceans, and within a few months they became the most popular in the empire.  Ship type.

    Correspondingly, the empire's booming shipping industry, and with the rapidly growing number of imperial ships expanding rapidly in the world's oceans, the empire's shipping industry ushered in a new golden age in this era of war.

    In just the first three months of 1918, nearly 300 freighters of this class were put into operation, creating tens of millions of tons of ocean transportation capacity, which greatly eased the empire's tight maritime transportation capacity, thus making the empire's maritime strategy more strategic.  It quickly surpassed all other countries on the planet and became the well-deserved number one maritime power.

    The series of imperial cross-ocean offensive wars that took place after that were inseparable from the widespread use of this class of ships. After the war, His Majesty the Emperor even personally commended:

    "The Oriental-class standard high-speed freighter developed and built by the empire during the war was the number one contributor to the empire's victory over the world!"

    This is undoubtedly the greatest affirmation for the designers of this ship.

    However, when the empire put this ship into use, it never thought that this ship, which was easy to operate, fast, and easy to modify, would actually start a wave of piracy around the world.  Countless anarchists active on the sea, and small and medium-sized interest groups struggling to survive due to troubled times have been given a new life because of the emergence of this class of high-speed freighters!  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read it.)
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