"Master Chief, according to the rules, you should name this ship." Carlos, who had introduced the ship, said seriously.

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

　　 However, this is only an experimental ship after all, not a regular warship, so Shixiong does not intend to name it after a clan or clan celebrity.

But after he saw Adrian Carlos next to him, he smiled and said: "Ade, you have also made a great contribution to this ship, so if you think it is possible, I would like to use your last name, That is, Carlos named the ship. What do you think?"

　　 As soon as he uttered these words, Carlos's face suddenly became flushed, and the faces of all the people around him showed envy.

　　 This is an out-and-out great honor!

　　 Naming a ship with a person’s last name is definitely the highest reward for that person.

　　 Carlos naturally knew what it meant, so he almost fainted with excitement.

　　 After a long time, Carlos gradually recovered from his excitement. After a series of "thank you" in his mouth, he waited for the ship's formal entry into the water with an uncontrollable smile.

　　 Under the order of Shixiong, all the tribesmen who were busy at the bottom of the dock climbed up. Carlos shouted several times. After confirming that there was no one in the dock, he ordered the opening of the dock door of the dry dock.

　　As the dock door was lifted up a little bit, the water of the Elizabeth River began to pour in continuously. But it will take a while to fill this dock completely.

　　Almost everyone is watching the ship nervously.

　　 With more and more river water poured in, the ship really slowly floated up!

　　 The cheers rang out in this almost sealed dry dock.

　　 This is not a wooden boat, it can float by virtue of the buoyancy of the wood itself. This is an out-and-out steel ship!

　　 Shixiong did not cheer, but there was also a smile on his face.

　　 Stone Bear has never doubted whether this Carlos can float.

　　 This is a ship built using hot riveting technology. There is no welding technology in this era, only this riveting technology can be used to rivet the hull. Before World War I, all steel battleship hulls were riveted using this riveting technique.

　　 Of course, this technology is currently the only scorpion shit. For this technology, Carlos and the others have spent a lot of hard work doing various experiments before finally determining how to riveting. It took more than half a year to finalize this technology, even if Shixiong was pointing in the general direction just to study this hot riveting technology.

　　Perhaps this hot riveting technique has loopholes of this kind, but it doesn't matter. With the launch of the Carlos, whether this technology will work or not will be known by conducting a sea trial.

　　As for this ship, the stone bear was actually designed based on the Caldwell-class destroyer built by the American Navy at the end of World War I.

　　 It’s also a coincidence that, before going to study in the United States, one of his friends had just made a model of a Caldwell-class destroyer by hand.

　　His friend is a crazy military fan, especially obsessed with the warships of various countries during the First World War. There are no less than twenty types of ship models in this guy's home, all of which were warships built by various countries during the First World War. From battleships to destroyers, they are all made by him.

At that time, Shi Xiong was drinking at that friend’s house, and his friend took out the model of the Caldwell-class destroyer that he had just made by himself, and told Shi Xiong in great detail about the ship. specification.

　　 So, when Shi Xiong was about to build an iron armored ship, he first thought of the ship model...

　　 In fact, with the current technology of the Yanhuang tribe, it is absolutely impossible to build such a steel battleship out of thin air. But it couldn't stand the existence of Stone Bear, the biggest BUG. Therefore, under the continuous guidance of Stone Bear and the crazy efforts of Carlos and the others, it took more than six years for this ship to finally take shape.

　　 If you count the preliminary preparations, then just to build this ship, the Yanhuang tribe took eight years.

　　If in later generations, a thousand-ton destroyer like this antique model can be launched in less than a year. But in this era, it took a full six years.

　　 But anyway, this steel battleship that has gathered countless efforts and energy finally floated successfully.

　　 As long as it can float, that is a huge improvement!

　　 Carlos accompanied Stone Bear on the deck of Carlos through the springboard. Stone Bear and Hard Bones stood at the forefront of the deck and looked at the wide Elizabeth River outside the dock with emotion. As for Carlos and others, they started to get busy.

　　 Now the ship cannot be out of the dock. After all, whether the hot riveting will work or not, whether the hull will enter water, it needs to be tested.

　　Only when it is confirmed that the hull will not enter the water in such almost static waters, then the ship will leave the dock and enter the Elizabeth River to continue testing. Once the hull can withstand the impact of the Elizabeth River, it will finally enter the Atlantic Ocean to the east for sea trials.

"Boss, can such a ship really withstand the sailing battleships of Vasichu?" Hard bone, as the commander of the navy force, still does not believe that such a "slender and long" iron ship can beat those verticals and horizontals. Sailing battleship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Shi Xiong stroked the 105mm main gun located at the bow of the ship, shook his head slightly and said, “It’s still unclear how fast the ship is. If the ship can exceed ten knots, then the ship will deal with those sails. The battleship is stress-free."

Seeing that there was still a trace of disbelief on the hard-boned face, Shixiong explained patiently: "First of all, our firepower, do you think the naval guns used by Vasichu that can only fire solid rounds can be compared On our 105 main gun?"

Hard bones shook his head without any doubt, "Our 105 main gun can paralyze those Vasichu sailing battleships with one shot~lightnovelpub.net~ if our 105 main gun can hit more than three shells on the same ship. , You can sink Vasichu’s ship directly! Our artillery power has an absolute advantage."

　　 Ishikuma nodded, not to mention the 105mm main gun, even the 76 mortar, those wooden boats can't stand it.

"Our ship is riveted with 20 mm thick steel plates. The defensive power of this 20 mm thick steel plate is almost equivalent to that of 700 mm thick wooden boards. Now the artillery of the sail battleship of Vasichu is in the second At a distance of 100 meters, at most, it can penetrate 600 mm thick wooden boards. Therefore, as long as they are not directly fired by the large-pound artillery of those sailing battleships at a short distance, their shells will not penetrate our hull. of."

　　 "But if Vasichu has a lot of sailing battleships, how about we surround our ships and fight?"

"Hehe, so, whether our ship will work or not depends on the speed of the specific sea trial! Don’t forget, the reason why I wanted to build such a steel battleship was not just for the purpose of being 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!"

　　 Ishikuma patted the hard-boned shoulder and said: "Hard-bones, Kebei looked down on this ship. Once the experiment on this ship is successful, then all the oceans on this planet in the future will become our bathhouse!"

　　 Although the bones nodded, he still seemed to not understand the last words that Shi Xiong said...

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