Chapter 592

Hard bone naturally doesn't understand what this dark steel warship means now, and stone bear won't explain it to him now. Anyway, when hard bone sees the power of this steel warship with his own eyes one day, he will naturally understand.

And now the stone bear doesn't have the time and mood to explain this. His attention is all attracted by the ship.

Throughout the morning, the stone bear did not leave the dock filled with water. The Carlos stayed in the dock for a whole morning to test whether the hull would enter or seep.

After all, this is the first steel ship in the world to be riveted by hot riveting technology. No one knows whether this riveting technology is qualified.

After a morning's static test, the effect looks good. The 24 watertight cabins under the Carlos deck below the waterline have no water inflow or seepage.

This result let everyone including the stone bear take a long breath.

What's the most important thing about a ship? It's simple. It doesn't leak!

If a ship leaks everywhere, not even an aircraft carrier!

Obviously, this latest hot riveting technology is qualified, and so are the workers at Norfolk shipyard!

Since the effect of static test is very good, then the next step is to enter the Elizabeth River for navigation test.

Thick black smoke billowed from the four chimneys of the Carlos, and within minutes the well ventilated dock was in a state of chaos.

At this time, the stone bear felt that the internal combustion engine was so good and environmentally friendly!

Compared with this coal-fired steam engine, the oil-fired internal combustion engine is an environmental protection expert

It takes at least 20 minutes for the water temperature in the boiler to reach the required level to generate steam, and people can't stay in the dock at this time. Therefore, taking advantage of this vacancy, they have a quick lunch, then enter the dock again and board the Carlos, waiting for the Carlos to leave the dock.

Stone bear, they just boarded the Carlos and entered the bridge. Soon after, with the clear noise of the steam engine, the Carlos slowly came out of the dock.

As soon as the ship left the dock, the smoke from the four chimneys was blown away by the wind.

Sure enough, the best place for this thing to gallop is in the sea. Only the boundless space of the sea and the strong wind can disperse the smoke

The ship was piloted by a few of hardcore's men. These men were soldiers of the gaoshu tribe, the first to drive the inland river armed transport ships. They have been following in the shipyard since they built the Carlos. They communicate with Adrian Carlos and other shipbuilding engineers every day, and then slowly explore how to pilot the ship.

After all, the way the steel warship was piloted was not the same as the way the sailboat was piloted.

"What's the motivation?" Carlos nervously grabbed the hand-held magnet phone and talked to the crew in the engine room below.

"The load of the boiler is 30%, and the operation is stable and good..." the clear voice of the crew in the engine room came out from the hand-held magnet phone, and Shi Xiong could hear it standing by.

"Slowly increase the operating power to 50%..." Carlos gave the order in a deep voice.

Today's test, he is the captain of the ship, even the stone bear and hard bone can only be spectators.

With the noise and vibration rising again, the stone bear felt that Carlos, which had adjusted its direction, began to accelerate slowly.

Although the speed is not fast, it is undoubtedly a very good result.

It's a steel warship. It's also a warship propelled by propeller. It can make the ship float and not sink until it can move and accelerate slowly. This is a huge breakthrough.

Although the ship was designed by stone bear based on the American Caldwell class destroyer in the first World War, it is far from being compared with the real Caldwell class destroyer.

Although the appearance is very similar, the inner things are far from each other.

For example, the real Caldwell destroyer in previous generations was propelled by two shafts and two propellers. Its core power was four Schulz thonycroft coal-fired boilers (Schulz sunnycroft type coal-fired boilers) and two Parsons steam turbines (Parsons type steam turbines), This configuration can power the Caldwell destroyer up to 10000 horsepower per axle.

The boiler of Carlos is a steam boiler made by the Yanhuang tribe. Although the efficiency of this new boiler is far higher than that of any other steam boiler in Europe at present under the guidance of Shi Xiong, it is still not as efficient as that of the steam boiler in World War I.

Besides, there is no steam turbine on the Carlos. This ship only adopts the original mechanical conversion method of converting steam engine into mechanical power. Well, it's similar to the working principle of locomotive.

The efficiency of the steam engine is far less than that of the Caldwell, and the efficiency of transforming steam power into mechanical power is also far less than that of the Caldwell, so the Carlos can only be regarded as an armored ship with the shape of the Caldwell.

The former Caldwell class destroyers were equipped with four triple 533mm torpedo launchers, two 40mm Table Tennis guns and two 7.6mm air defense machine guns. But Carlos doesn't need torpedoes or air defense, so Carlos doesn't have torpedo launchers, table tennis guns or air defense machine guns.

In terms of firepower, Carlos is no less than the real Caldwell class destroyer.

But the power is not good, everything is blind.

The Caldwell class destroyer can speed up to 32 knots, but what about Carlos?

Anyway, now the stone bear doesn't know, no one knows, everything can only be known after the sea trial.

But the bear didn't have much faith in Carlos. After all, the core power is too bad

But many things in the world are so interesting sometimes.

It's just like the stone bear didn't have much confidence in the speed of the Carlos at the beginning. Anyway, it's just an experimental ship. The experience accumulated in the process of building this ship is the most important.

Unexpectedly, the steel warship launched for the first time soon gave stone bear a big surprise.

Today's weather is not very good. It's windy. The waves in the Elizabeth River, which is more than one kilometer wide, are more than half a meter high.

But in the waves more than half a meter high, with the black smoke coming out of the four chimneys of the Carlos becoming more and more dense, the ship seems to have become a dolphin who has escaped the orca, and even runs faster and faster on the wide rive