Chapter 593

Carlos, who has been paying close attention to the situation in the engine room, has obviously noticed this situation.

This time, he didn't even pay attention to the engine room, put down the magnet phone in his hand, pulled the stone bear to push open the cockpit door and went outside.

The wind is still strong.

The Carlos sailed from south to north. Today, it was the north wind. With the increasing speed of the Carlos, the wind felt outside the bridge was very strong.

"This... This speed is almost ten knots!" Carlos is a very experienced ship designer and shipbuilding engineer, he can also generally judge the speed of a ship.

Stone bear had driven a car, rode a motorcycle, and also rode a battery car in his previous life. He had the same feeling about speed. He nodded with a smile and said, "yes, I think the speed of Carlos is almost ten knots now."

The stone bear's approval made Carlos jump in place several times. Obviously, the speed of the ship was definitely higher than he expected.

One knot is about 1.85 km, and the speed of ten knots is about 18.5 kmh.

This speed is absolutely the top navigation speed in this era.

We should know that the sailing battleships currently used by European powers basically belong to the category of Galen ships. This kind of wooden hull ship, powered by sails, can only sail at a speed of seven to ten knots in the sea.

But how many sails does a windsurfing battleship have?

What about the boat under your feet? Not only is there no sail, but also a steel warship!

The ship, made of steel that can't float in the water at all, can run so fast driven by the steam engine. This is a subversion of Carlos's understanding.

"Ad..." the stone bear called out and stopped the excited Carlos jumping in place, "ask about the situation of the engine room boiler and gearbox, and see if we can increase the power."

Carlos nodded excitedly, opened the steel door of the bridge, ran in, grabbed the phone and began to ask.

The stone bear came in slowly. After a while, Carlos said excitedly: "chief, just now, the boiler's operating power was maintained at about 75%, and it was in good condition. I have asked them to continue to increase the power to the top to see how fast our ship can run."

The stone bear touched the stubble on his chin and nodded with satisfaction. 75% of the power can make the ship run ten knots, which is quite unexpected.

Through the glass window of the bridge, the stone bear can clearly see that the black smoke from the four thick chimneys behind him is more dense. Under the north wind, the four black smoke pillars have formed a black smoke belt on the river. On the Bank of the river in the distance, there are many people standing on the bank to watch, and a large number of people are kneeling down to pray. Obviously, these people are scared by the smoky steel warship

Stone bear has no time to consider the feelings of these people. The most important thing is to test the general performance of the ship.

It's just a pity that when the stone bear just felt that the ship's speed began to increase, he could see the position of the estuary in front of him.

Stone bear just hesitated a little and gave the order to slow down.

The ship can't be exposed to outsiders, let alone the Europeans.

Ahead is the mouth of the Elisabeth River, out of which you will enter the James River.

The James River was an important inland waterway for the British in the thirteen colonies. After all, ships from the British mainland or from New York, Philadelphia and other colonial cities to Jamestown and Williamsburg had to go through the James River.

Carlos naturally understood the meaning of the stone bear, so Carlos began to slow down while preparing to turn around.

Here, the width of the Elizabeth River is more than two kilometers, and the Carlos can turn around here freely.

When the ship turned around, Carlos ordered full speed.

Before, because of the need to test the boiler, so the Carlos speed is very slow.

This time, it was going at full speed, so in just a few minutes, the speed of the Carlos increased. After more than ten kilometers of acceleration, the engine room below reported that the boiler power had been improved to the extreme.

Although it is impossible to test how much hp thrust these four boilers can provide for the Carlos, it is obvious that the power of these four boilers should be higher than expected.

Carlos is also propelled by two shafts and two propellers. According to the current extreme speed of about 13 to 14 knots, these four boilers can provide about 2000 to 3000 horsepower for each propeller

This is obviously a very good number. Don't forget, there is no steam turbine in the engine room of Carlos, so the power conversion ability of steam boiler is much worse, which is obviously very good.

A top speed of 13 or 14 knots is enough.

If it can run at this speed in the sea trial, the Carlos will be in the absolute upper hand when facing any class I windsurfing battleship of European powers.

Even for the last fleet, flying a kite can bring that fleet down with the speed of the Carlos.

Don't forget that Carlos uses steel plates with a thickness of 10 mm to make its hull. This kind of steel hull naturally has no defense against future artillery. However, at present, unless the heavy artillery with more than 32 pounds is directly fired within 200 meters, it can cause damage to the hull of Carlos, Other smaller guns are basically no threat to the Carlos.

If the Carlos was slow and not as fast as the sailboats, it might be in danger. But once the Carlos can maintain a speed of more than 10 knots, it will be able to drag down a fleet by flying kites with its main gun and 76mm auxiliary gun.

Carlos's main gun and auxiliary gun, the effective range is more than eight kilometers! Even the 76mm mortar has an effective range of more than 5km!

As long as the Carlos can keep enough distance from the windsurfing battleship, there will be only one result, that is, the Carlos will hang the windsurfing battleship!

The key is the speed of the Carlos!

But it's clear that the Carlos has exceeded the bear's best expectations.

Stone bear is happily imagining that one day his steel warship will encounter the sailing battleship fleet of European powers, and then all kinds of fancy hanging sailing battleships. A bad news comes from the engine room below.

"Captain, there seems to be something wrong with our propeller. There's water seepage there..."