The experience last night was probably Lorraine's biggest somersault after the death of the captain in Cherbourg.

A total of 22 people on the ship died and 16 people were injured to varying degrees. Among them, 19 people involved in the explosion were wiped out, and none of them survived.

The Jackdaw is also sacrificing the sequence.

The keel was broken, the stern tower was broken, the mainmast and rear mast were broken, and there was a mess on the rear deck, and there was almost no complete place.

If it weren’t for the Jackdaw’s incompetent combat power, Lorraine only stocked a minimum of gunpowder and shells. The martyrdom alone would be enough to send the ship directly to the bottom of the sea.

But now, after a whole night of tossing, the fire was extinguished, and the hull was barely kept. The salvage of personal belongings in the stern tower was roughly over, and all the munitions that flew out were handed over to the Saints Corps to operate.

Lorraine had two looming questions right now. One was how to avoid people's eyes and ears and lift up the ancient gold objects weighing more than three hundred pounds and gold coins worth nearly fifty thousand pounds under the lower deck.

The total weight of these golds reached more than 370 kilograms, and the main body included hundreds of thousands of golden octagonal gold coins, tens of thousands of pounds and almost the same number of gold louis.

If these crimes were piled directly on the embankment without cover, Lorraine worried that he would go to war with the white people in Qianwan.

The other is the boat...

The life of the Jackdaw was destined to die, and Lorraine lost its flagship for the first time in her life.

To make matters worse, the Jackdaw is very important to him, and its value is far more than just a good ship.

He needs to find a replacement for the Jackdaw as soon as possible, a super-high-speed merchant ship with enough cargo holds and large enough, and with a certain degree of self-protection capability.

And this kind of ship can only be found in three places, one is Bermuda, the other is Baltimore, and the other is the current Boston Back Bay.

That's why Lorraine followed Jefferson to Back Bay.

With Jefferson's wisdom, he must know Lorraine's needs.

Since he recommended his friend at this point, Lorraine has reason to be optimistic that the owner of the shipyard named Edmond Haite happened to have the water tank and ship Lorraine needed.

The result is really good.

Seeing that the smoke-bearing Jackdaw was slowly dragged into the temporarily rented shipyard tank by two tugboats, Lorraine finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Haite, you are still willing to take us in after the incident happened last night. I am really grateful."

On the dock of the water tank, Lorraine, Jefferson and a tall and strong gentleman gathered in a triangle.

This gentleman was Jefferson’s friend Edmond Haight, the owner of the Boston Haight Shipyard, a gentleman, but his fingers were filled with oil and paint.

How should I put it... just like another Karen, not even good at speaking.

Listening to Lorraine's courtesy, Hite waved his hands again and again and was humble.

"No, no, Mr. Kenway, I didn’t do anything for you. You rented the water tank, and even the accident payment clause is your proposal. Facing a gentleman like you, I can’t find anything. Reason for rejection."

"For the sake of people? Probably no one in Qianwan now looks at it like this..." Lorraine let out a laugh, and pointed to the outside of the warehouse.

There was obvious disappointment on Haite's face, and even his broad shoulders drooped.

"Really? Yes, your experience last night was so thrilling. Now you should take a good rest instead of dealing with the stranger I met for the first time..."

Lorraine gave Jefferson a weird look, but only saw a helpless smile on the face of the old and cunning politician.

But Jefferson seemed to intervene accidentally.

Lorraine rolled his eyes dejectedly: "Mr. Haight probably misunderstood. I was not referring to the door, but your dock."

"My dock?"

"Yes, you have seen the status of the Jackdaw. Now that the Governor introduced me here, I think you should have a good boat in your hand, right?"

...

Lorraine never thought that a temptation to give everything to optimism would lead him to such a strange ship.

Yes, strange.

In the third dry dock of Haite Shipyard, Lorraine stood in front of a large ship with its mast down, and silently looked at the detailed sea test report provided by Haite.

According to the description of the sea trial report, the ship named Daohao is 53 meters long, 9.7 meters wide, has a draft of 5.5 meters, and has a drainage of 1,150 tons.

She should be a three-masted barrage mixed sailing ship of the same type as the Jackdaw, with a total of three backward-inclined masts. The main mast is 52 meters long and the elevation is 50 meters.

Of course, it sounds exactly what it sounds like, because any living person with eyes would not associate the four words of Taoism with Zhongkaizhongjun.

This is a demon ship cursed by speed!

The fragile hollow bow sacrificed the bow gun and shifted its center of gravity back for speed.

The standard Baltimore design of the bow, shield and stern improves the ability to break waves and divide water for speed.

The backward tilt of the mast is to further adjust the center of gravity. At the same time, the inclined mast can make the mast longer and the sail surface larger, and the probability of the rear sail blocking the front sail from the wind is reduced, all for speed.

Even when the warships around the world are still arguing about the aspect ratio of 3.5 or 4, she has adopted the ultra-slim ratio of 5.5 to turn the entire ship into an arrow, also for speed.

This is not all.

Compared with the hollow bow, the double-layer six-door gun is obviously to make the bow higher.

The traditional one-masted four-wide cross-sail was replaced by seven narrow cross-sails to increase the flexibility of catching the wind.

The wing sail is of course an indispensable high-speed configuration.

In addition, the arrangement of four Bermuda Triangle large bow sails on the 12-meter-long bow mast enhances the headwind.

The dense four sails between the mainmast and the foremast enhance the headwind. 27KK

Arranged on the entire rear mast, the nearly forty-meter-high Super Bermuda skeletal soft sail greatly increases the strong headwind.

All this creates the road sign in front of you.

With a downwind speed of 16 knots and a headwind speed of 5.5 knots, Lorraine does not need to collect special data. Lorraine can guarantee that her speed is the best in the world for large ships above 50 meters!

But is this really good?

In order to exceed the speed, the price paid by Dao Mark is the extremely sensitive center of gravity of the ship and the weaker wind and wave resistance than Brigentin.

This ship may not turn over while driving, but it only requires one round of side shelling...

There is no need to match a twenty-four-pound cannon of her level, as long as 18 pounds, she will definitely be overturned by the recoil of the cannon.

In other words, she is not an armed merchant ship at all, but a simple to extreme speed merchant ship.

But Lorraine saw the gun ports on the side of the road markings. Some sporadic, strange, different from the normal square, the style was obviously rectangular gun ports.

He curiously opened the second page of the shipboard evaluation, and was immediately impressed by the whimsical ideas of the Haite Shipyard design team.

The road markings are indeed not suitable for equipping shipborne guns, so the original two-story gun bay was changed to one floor, and the upper level was adjusted to a simple cargo hold.

On the lower level, the designers creatively arranged a peculiar diamond-shaped gun bay, and matched it with a fan-shaped gun rail to fix two shooting directions obliquely forward and obliquely backward in a square inch, one for chasing and one for Run away.

Lorraine was astounded and couldn't help but read aloud.

"This is probably the most nerd's gun deployment plan in the history of HNA..."

Heite has been waiting nervously for Lorraine's evaluation, but because he was too nervous, he could not hear Lorraine's words clearly.

"Sorry, Mr. Kenway..."

Lorraine shook her head and closed the evaluation report: "You don't need to care about me, please introduce me to Dao Mark. I am very interested in her."

"Really!" Haite flushed with excitement, "This kid called the road sign, the lighthouse, the road sign, the beacon, because she is the daughter of Boston!"

"Boston is well-deserved by the United States. On the one hand, the earliest colony of this town is between three mountains, and the tallest of the three mountains, the most central one is Beacon Hill."

"On the other hand, Paul Revere's midnight ride, the wind lantern hung on the spire of the Old North Church started our independent career, and it is nicknamed the guiding light by the people across the United States."

"The third aspect is that this ship is an experimental ship of great design and a beacon of the new era of the ocean. We are trying to find a way for large warships to speed up..."

"So, she is an experiment, and she is still an immature experiment, isn't she?" Lorraine interrupted with a smile.

"Yes, it is."

"Since you said that you want to find out the way for the large warships to speed up from her, can I take the liberty to ask, what is the elevation angle of her shelling on the side of a full wheel?"

"It depends on the storm at the time..."

"Gentle breeze, light waves."

"5...5 degrees." Haite rolled his eyes guiltily.

"5 degrees?"

"Five degrees... to 15 degrees."

Lorraine opened his mouth wide: "You mean, you and your team gave up a whole layer of firepower, used 24 guns to place 16 guns, and even gave up the T-head advantage. She still has a 15-degree elevation angle? "

"In the case of Weilang...this is the case."

"Where is the big wave?"

Haite was frightened by Lorraine’s yelling and shrank his neck: “Because Zhonglang and Dalang evaluated after Weilang, the hired sailors refused...but they happily paid liquidated damages...”

"When you got the liquidated damages, didn't you think that the best destination of this ship was actually to be demolished by your own hands?"

"Uh……"

Looking at the clumsy and poorly spoken Haite, Lorraine had no idea whether he should cry or laugh.

"Forget it, Mr. Haight, let me ask the last question, what is the price of road markings?"

Haite seemed to have caught the last straw.

"Mr. Kenway! The whole body of this child is made of top-quality Bermuda cypress, and the sail is hand-made by Baltimore. It is equipped with 16 18-pound long-range guns and 6 twelve-pound medium-range guns~www .lightnovelpub.net ~ It has been built for three years and has been carefully maintained by me. It is in better condition than when it was a new ship..."

"Sorry, I want to hear the price."

Heite gritted his teeth and said hoarsely: "The price...the price of the road sign is 7,500 pounds!"

Lorraine was shocked again.

Not because it is too expensive, but because it is too cheap.

The Dao Mark is covered with the top quality materials of the high-speed ship, plus the poor ship equipment, even if it sells for 15,000 pounds, it can only be considered as a payback, not to mention that it has been maintained in a dry dock for three years. Long.

Dry dock maintenance is a special treatment that can only be enjoyed by first- and second-class ships. After maintenance, the wood will become tougher and more resistant to corrosion. In other words, it can greatly increase the service life of the ship.

A mere merchant ship, as for?

If this ship is of great significance to Haite, why should he sell it at a low price?

Thinking of this, Lorraine suddenly jumped out of his mind.

[This ship is an experimental ship of great design and a beacon of the new ocean era]...

"Mr. Haight, please let me take the liberty to ask, are you short of money?"

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