Chapter 591

"Chief, according to the rules, you should name the ship." After introducing the ship, Carlos said very seriously.

"Name?" Shi Xiong was stunned for a moment, and then realized that although this is only an experimental ship, it is absolutely an epoch-making steel warship. It seems that only he has the qualification to name it.

However, it's only an experimental ship after all, and it's not a regular warship, so the stone bear doesn't intend to be named after the tribe or its celebrities,

But when he saw Adrian Carlos around him, he said with a smile, "Adrian, you have made a great contribution to this ship, so if you think it's OK, I'd like to name this ship after you, Carlos. What do you think? "

As soon as he said this, Carlos's face suddenly turned red, and all the faces around him looked envious.

This is a great honor!

Naming a ship after a person's surname is definitely the highest reward for that person.

Carlos naturally knew what it meant, so he was so excited that he almost fainted.

After a long time, Carlos gradually recovered from the excitement. After a series of "thank you", he waited for the official entry of the ship with an irrepressible smile.

Under the order of stone bear, all the people who were busy at the bottom of the dock climbed up. Carlos yelled several times. After he was sure that there was no one in the dock, he ordered to open the water gate of the dry dock.

As the dock gate is lifted up, the water of the Elizabeth River begins to pour in. But it will take a while to fully fill the dock.

Almost everyone was watching the ship nervously.

With more and more water pouring in, the ship really floated slowly!

Cheers immediately rang out in the dry dock, which was almost sealed.

This is not a wooden boat. It can float with the buoyancy of the wood itself. This is a steel ship to the letter!

The stone bear didn't cheer, but his face also showed a smile.

The stone bear never doubted whether the Carlos could float.

This is a ship built with hot riveting technology. In this era, there is no welding technology, only this riveting technology can be used to rivet the hull. Before World War I, all steel warship hulls were riveted with this riveting technology.

Of course, this kind of technology is the only one for scorpions at present. For this technology, Carlos spent a lot of effort to do various experiments, and finally determined how to rivet. It took more than half a year just to study the hot riveting technology, even if the stone bear gave directions in the general direction.

Maybe there are loopholes in this hot riveting technology, but it doesn't matter. With the launch of the Carlos, whether this technology will work or not will be known through a sea trial.

As for the ship, in fact, the stone bear is based on the Caldwell class destroyer built by the later American navy at the end of World War I.

Coincidentally, before the stone bear went to the United States to visit and study, one of his friends had just made a model of a Caldwell class destroyer by hand.

His friend was a crazy army fan, especially the warships of various countries during World War I. There are no less than 20 types of ship models in this guy's home, all of which are warships built by various countries during World War I. From battleships to destroyers, he made them all by himself.

At that time, Shi Xiong was drinking at his friend's house, and his friend took out the model of the Caldwell class destroyer which had just been made by himself, and told Shi Xiong a lot of detailed parameters of the ship in great detail.

So, when Shi Xiong was going to build the armored ship, he first thought of the ship model

In fact, with the current technology of Yanhuang tribe, it is absolutely impossible to build such a steel warship out of thin air. However, the biggest bug is stone bear. Therefore, under the constant guidance of stone bear and the crazy efforts of Carlos, it took more than six years for the ship to finally take shape.

If the preparatory work is included, it will take Yanhuang tribe eight years just to build the ship.

In the future, a thousand ton destroyer like this antique model will be launched in less than a year. But in this era, it took six years.

But in any case, the steel warship, which has accumulated countless efforts and energy, finally floats successfully.

As long as it can float up, it is a great progress!

Carlos accompanied the stone bear to the deck of the Carlos through the springboard. The stone bear and the hard bone stood in the front of the deck and looked at the broad Elizabethan river outside the dock with great emotion. As for Carlos, they started to get busy.

Now the ship can't get out of dock. After all, whether the hot riveting is finished or not, and whether the hull will enter water, all need to be tested.

Only when it is certain that the ship will not enter the water in this nearly static water, will the ship leave the dock and enter the Elizabeth River for further detection. Once the hull can withstand the impact of the Elizabethan River, it will finally enter the eastern Atlantic Ocean for sea trial.

"Chief, can such a ship really withstand the sailboats of vasichu?" Hard bone, as the commander of the Navy, still does not believe that such a "thin and long" iron ship can beat those sailing battleships across the Atlantic Ocean.

The stone bear stroked the 105mm main gun at the bow of the ship, shook his head slightly and said, "I'm not sure how fast the ship is now. If the speed of this ship can exceed ten knots, then this ship will have no pressure against those windsurfing battleships. "

Seeing the expression of disbelief still on his hard face, Shi Xiong patiently explained: "first of all, our firepower. Do you think the naval guns used by vasichu that can only fire solid bullets can match our 105 main guns?"

Hard bone shook his head without doubt, "one shot of our 105 main gun can paralyze those vasichu sailing battleships. If our 105 main gun can hit the same ship with more than three shells, it can directly sink vasichu's ship! Our artillery power is absolutely superior. "

Stone bear nodded, in fact, let alone 105 mm main gun, even 76 mortar, those wooden boats can't stand it.

"Our ship is made of 20 mm thick steel plate riveted together. This 20 mm thick steel plate has almost the same defensive force as 700 mm thick wood plate. Now the artillery of vasichu's windsurfing battleship can pierce 600mm thick wood at a distance of 200m at most. Therefore, as long as they are not directly shot by the large pound artillery of those windsurfing battleships at a very close distance, their shells will not pierce our hull. "

"But if vasichu has a lot of windsurfing battleships, how about encircling our ships to fight?"

"Ha ha, so we need to see the speed of the sea trial to see whether our ship is going to work or not! Don't forget, I didn't build such a steel warship just to be beaten. We have to rely on excellent speed, firepower and armor to crush those sailing battleships in all directions, so that our steel battleships can be invincible and invincible! "

The stone bear patted hard bone on the shoulder and said, "hard bone, don't underestimate this ship. Once this ship is successfully tested, all the oceans on this planet will become our bathhouse in the future."

Although hard bone nodded, he could see that he still didn't understand the last sentence of stone bea