Chapter 78 New Ship 2

The craftsmen of the boat made four large wooden wheels on both sides of the slide, using the animal power provided by the cattle to rotate the wheels. The wheels are coiled with ropes, and the thick hemp ropes are hung on two sets of pulleys and moving pulleys, which are fixed on the hull.

As long as you let the cow move and pull the wheels and pulley sets, you can slowly drag the hull and move towards the slide.

In order to reduce the friction between the heavy hull and the slide, you can also apply a layer of grease to the wooden slide, which is occasionally used in land boats, but because grease also costs a lot of money at present, many land boats are reluctant to use this kind of thing, but for sea wolves, this is not a problem. .

Someone has taken several barrels of whale oil and applied it to the wooden slide.

After the wooden frame was removed, the hull did not shake and still sat firmly on the frame. Some people began to beat the cattle for traction. After the cow was in pain, it began to move, driving the wheels to slowly rotate. The coarse hemp rope wrapped around the huge wheels gradually began to tighten, and the pulley group also began to tighten. As it began to move, the hemp rope of the whole traction system was gradually tightened, and the force gradually appeared on the hull.

At this time, everyone held their breath and nervously watched the situation of the towing rope. Although the hull was not heavy and only about 70 tons when it was empty, it was still very heavy. After several hemp ropes for traction were tightened, it began to creak. It makes people feel toothy.

The hemp rope moon tightened until all the expansion was stretched out, and the animal power began to make a creaking sound. The cow began to struggle. Under the whip, the cow's eyes were round, and the muscles of the whole body began to tighten. The cow's head stretched forward, making a moaning sound from time to time, and the four legs kicked the ground vigorously. The muscles under the skin are tense and become pimples one by one.

At this time, the hull finally creaked and moved, and then slowly began to move, sliding from the shelf of the platform towards the slide.

There is a strong friction between the heavy hull and the wooden frame, emitting a burnt smell and a fragrance of whale oil. It smells a little fried. It smells strange.

The hull moved forward slowly, entered the slide, and began to tilt forward. At this time, the weight of the hull began to play a role, and the cow's towing roller became easier, but it was immediately stopped. At this time, the ship completely relied on its own weight and slid along the slide into the water. It is getting faster and faster, rubbing the groove to make a heavier smell of burnt.

In front of everyone's eyes, the first boat suddenly made a roar and rushed into the water. The bow immediately splashed huge waves, and many people standing on the shore were splashed with water and made an exclamation.

After the hull rushed into the water, it rushed forward by inertia for a distance, then stopped and shook left and right until it gradually stabilized. Until this time, the people on the shore cheered collectively.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the new ship floating on the water with satisfaction. The line shape of the boat was indeed beautiful, and there was a slip of portholes on the side of the boat. These were gun windows. After testing the water, he would immediately load 12 pounds of short cannons into the cabin, and the left and right sides could be arranged four to six 12-pound short. Guns, coupled with a 12-pound long cannon in the bow, this new ship can be equipped with 13 12-pound cannons when it is fully loaded, not counting the four one-pound Franco cannons specially used to deal with enemy personnel on the side of the deck.

After the reinforcement and improvement, the firepower of this ship has been considerable. In close-range artillery warfare, even the large splint ship that is several times larger than its size may not be able to take much advantage.

What's more, the next ship to be launched also needs to be equipped with a 32-pound Caron gun that can rotate on the deck. Such firepower only needs one shot. If you fire a shot, you can completely clean up the deck of an enemy ship, and even close to the fort that directly bombards the enemy's shore. With only a few cannons, it is estimated A small fort was flattened.

So, this kind of sloop is not large, but now its firepower is quite powerful, but so far, it can only reach this level. If you want to enhance its firepower, it is estimated that there is no way to improve its firepower without a mercer.

The first ship that went into the water is slightly left-leaning, indicating that the ballast arrangement of the bottom cabin of the hull is not accurate enough, and the port side is a little sinking, but this does not matter. Next, you only need to adjust the ballast stone, and the hull can naturally recover.

After the first ship was successfully put into the water, everyone was relieved and began to be busy putting the second ship into the water.

The second ship repeated the steps of the first ship to enter the water. It didn't take long for it to slide down the platform, rushed into the water, and quickly floated on the water and regained its balance.

But when the third ship was disembarked, there was an unexpected serious accident.

When the third ship began to be pulled, because a coarse hemp rope may have a quality problem, it suddenly collapsed after a short period of tension.

After the tight hemp rope suddenly broke, it immediately flew out from both sides of the stern. Two apprentices who operated the ship near the platform were caught off guard and swept by the thick hemp rope and were immediately pulled out. One died on the spot after spitting a pool of blood. It was too late to rescue, and the other The field broke a leg, which is estimated to be a comminuted fracture. The injury is very serious. Even after healing, it must be disabled.

And after the ship broke off the towing rope, it suddenly suffered uneven force and began to tilt slowly, which shocked everyone.

Someone immediately stopped the traction of the cow and stopped the remaining ropes that were still being pulled. Fortunately, the boat also had some precautions, and asked people to prepare thick wooden sticks to wait nearby in advance to prevent the hull from dumping.

Guo Fu screamed and rushed over, hugged a log and rushed forward, shouting and greeted the rest of the people as well. A group of craftsmen rushed to the hull that was tilting with the logs in their arms, put the wooden stick on the hull hard, and poked the other end on the ground hard. After more than a dozen logs were put on the top, the hull It has been stabilized.

Yu Xiaotian broke out in a cold sweat and quickly invited more people to go up, stabilized the hull, re-fixed the ship to the cable, and dragged the hull on the other side to prevent the hull from continuing to tilt.

It was not long before the ship was stabilized again. Yu Xiaotian quickly sent someone to rescue the injured and send them to the Tamsui City Medical Center as soon as possible. As for the apprentice who had unfortunately died, he also ordered to properly handle his funeral and bury him. He could have given a generous pension to his family, but asked Later, I learned that the apprentice was an orphan and had no room, so he had to give up.

If the ship is not rescued in time, once it capsised on the platform, it will be difficult to correct it with the current technology. The final result is likely to dismantle most of it on the spot, and the rest can be corrected, which is almost equivalent to rebuilding one.

Fortunately, Guo Fu and others were on guard, so they kept the ship at the last moment and held it down without dumping, but even so, the ship could not go into the water without re-reset for two or three days.

This originally lively launching ceremony, because the ship had an accident in the end, cast a shadow and dispersed unhappily.

Guo Fu was so scared that his hands and feet were weak, but such a good thing made him do this. If such a big thing happened, he also caused death and injury, so he ran to Yu Xiaotian in sweat and knelt down to plead guilty.

Yu Xiaotian is also in a bad mood, but this kind of thing is an emergency. In this era, there is no stronger nylon rope or wire rope. In the case of using hemp rope, no one can guarantee that the hemp rope will not break.

And he also looked at the broken hemp rope in person. The hemp rope was very thick and did not choose too thin. Moreover, on the surface, the hemp rope has no injury, which can be said to be completely unpredictable. This kind of thing is on Guo Fu's head, which is really a little unfair to him. Even if it is investigated, those who make hemp ropes should be investigated. The responsibility of craftsmen.

But this kind of accident can't be completely taken care of. If it's done like this, the craftsmen will think that it's not a big deal in the future, and they will still be careful.

So Yu Xiaotian calmed down and immediately ordered Guo Fu to pay three months' wages, because he was the main person in charge of the boat, and he personally arranged the ship to go to the water without adequate prevention, resulting in serious consequences of the accident.

The stewor of the hemp work was fined three months because he did not make a qualified hemp rope, which led to the accident. In addition, several other craftsmen who made hemp ropes also deducted wages ranging from one month to three months to set an example.

The craftsmen in the boat were so scared that they knelt down for a large area. After listening to Yu Xiaotian's good reprimand, Yu Xiaotian once again applied for quality awareness and safety awareness in public, telling the craftsmen of the boat house that they must strengthen their quality awareness and not have a chance, otherwise it is a trivial matter to damage something, like today. It is not impossible to directly cause death and injury.

What's more, ships are just things to run on the sea. If there is a problem with the quality, it may lead to the death of the whole ship at any time at sea, which is a matter of life-threatening for many people. In addition, these ships are basically battleships. If there is a problem in battle, it may even lead to a battle. The failure and the destruction of the ship are trivial matters.

The craftsmen lay on the ground and were scolded by Yu Xiaotian. They were silent and dared not speak. They were alert in their hearts and secretly thought about what they would say in the future.

The originally lively launching ceremony had to come to an hasty end, but then Yu Xiaotian boarded the ship in person and checked the situation of the two ships launching.