Hard Bones naturally doesn’t understand what the dark steel battleship in front of him means, and Shi Xiong will not explain to him now. Anyway, when Hard Bones sees the power of this steel battleship with his own eyes, he will naturally. Will understand.

　　 And now Shi Xiong doesn't have the time and mood to explain this aspect of things, his attention is all attracted by this ship.

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

　　 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 has passed the test.

　　 After a morning of static testing, the results look good. The twenty-four watertight tanks below the deck of Carlos below the waterline did not show water ingress or seepage.

　　 This result made everyone including Shi Xiong let out a long sigh.

　　 What is 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 the workers at the Norfolk Shipyard are also qualified!

　　Since the static test is very effective, the next step is to enter the Elizabeth River for sailing test.

　　 Thick black smoke billowed from the four large chimneys of the Carlos, and within a few minutes, the ventilated shipyard was completely smoky.

　　 At this time, Shi Xiong felt that the internal combustion engine, which he despised in his previous life, was so good and so environmentally friendly!

　　 Compared to this coal-burning steam engine, the oil-burning internal combustion engine is simply an environmental expert...

It would take at least 20 minutes from the time the furnace was turned on to the water temperature in the boiler to reach the required steam, and at this time there was no way for people to stay in the dock. Therefore, taking advantage of this time, Shixiong and the others ate a quick meal. Have lunch, then enter the dock again and board the Carlos, waiting for the Carlos to leave the dock.

　　 Ishikuma and they just boarded the Carlos and entered the bridge shortly afterwards, accompanied by the loud noise produced by the clear steam engine working, the Carlos slowly moved out of the dock.

　　 As soon as the hull was out of the dock, the thick smoke from the four chimneys was blown away by the wind.

　　 Sure enough, the best place for this thing to ride is in the sea, and only the boundless space of the sea and strong wind can blow away the dense smoke...

　　 The boat is driven by a few people under the hard bones. These people are all fighters of the Gaoshu tribe, and they are the first group to drive the inland river armed transport ship. They have been following the shipyard since the time the Carlos was built. They communicated with Adrian Carlos and other shipbuilding engineers every day, and then slowly explored how to navigate the ship.

　　 After all, the driving style of this steel battleship is different from the driving style of sailing ships.

　　 "How is the power?" Carlos nervously grabbed the magnet phone and talked to the crew in the engine room below.

　　 "The boiler operating load is 30%, and the operation is stable and good..." The clear voice of the engine room crew came from the hand-cranked magnet phone, and Shixiong could hear it standing aside.

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

　　 In today's test, he is the captain of this ship, and even Stone Bear and Hard Bones can only be spectators.

　　 As the noise and vibration increased again, Shixiong felt that the Carlos, which had adjusted its direction, began to accelerate slowly.

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

　　 This is a steel battleship, and it is also a warship that uses propellers. It can make this ship float and not sink, until the ship can move and slowly accelerate, this is a huge breakthrough.

　　 Although the ship was designed by Stone Bear based on the Caldwell-class destroyers of the United States during World War I, this ship is far from being compared with the real Caldwell-class destroyers.

　　 Although the appearance is very similar, the inner things are still far away.

For example, the real destroyer Caldwell in the previous life was a twin-shaft twin-propeller propulsion, and its core power was four Schulz-Thonycroft coal-fired boilers (Schulz-Sonycroft type coal-fired boilers), equipped with two A Parsons steam turbine (Parsons steam turbine) is used as the core power. This configuration can provide the destroyer Caldwell with a single shaft of up to 10,000 horsepower.

The boiler of the Carlos is a steam boiler made by the Yanhuang tribe. Although the efficiency of this new type of boiler, which is far more efficient than any current steam boiler in Europe, under the guidance of Shixiong, the efficiency is good, but it is far from being able to compete with the First World War. Compared with the steam boiler of the period.

　　 And there is no steam turbine on the Carlos. This ship uses the most primitive mechanical conversion method that uses a steam engine to convert it into mechanical power. Well, it's similar to the working principle of a locomotive.

　　 The efficiency of the steam engine is far inferior to that of the Caldwell, and the efficiency of the conversion of steam engine power into mechanical power is also far less than that of the Caldwell, so the Carlos can only be regarded as an ironclad ship that looks like the Caldwell.

The previous Caldwell-class destroyer was equipped with four triple-mounted 533mm torpedo launchers, two 40mm ping-pong guns and two 7.6mm anti-aircraft machine guns~lightnovelpub.net~ but Carlos did not need to be released. Torpedoes do not need air defense, so Carlos does not have torpedo launchers, ping-pong cannons and air defense machine guns.

　　 The torpedo launchers and ping-pong guns and other anti-aircraft weapons were replaced with 76mm guns and 76mm mortars. In terms of firepower, the Carlos is not inferior to the real Caldwell-class destroyer.

　　 But the motivation is not good, everything is in vain.

　　 Caldwell-class destroyers can reach speeds of up to 32 knots, but what about the Carlos?

　　 Anyway, Shixiong doesn't know, no one knows, everything can only be known after the sea trial is over.

　　 But Stone Bear doesn't have much confidence in Carlos. After all, the core power is too bad...

　　 But many things in this world are sometimes so interesting.

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

　　Unexpectedly, this steel battleship that was launched for the first time quickly gave Shi Xiong a huge surprise.

　　 The weather today is not very good, the wind is a bit strong. The waves in the Elizabeth River, which is more than one kilometer wide, are more than half a meter high.

But in this half-meter-high wave, as the black smoke from the four chimneys of the Carlos became denser and denser, the ship seemed to be transformed into a dolphin that escaped the clutches of the orca. Even running faster and faster on the wide river...

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