The Rise of the Empire

This is also true. In history, Americans and Japanese took advantage of World War I to make a lot of war money, and the same is true for shipping. There was even a Japanese crew member who bought a ship with a friend after resigning. I started a shipping company. During this period, the profit margin of sea transportation in Japan was as high as 150%! Therefore, if you can continue to use the name of a neutral country to carry out maritime transportation, you can naturally get a lot of benefits. Moreover, during the transportation process, it can also provide some help for German submarines and assault ships outside, such as providing fuel, food, medicine, etc. \u003c/p\u003e "Then do you plan to do freight or passenger transport?" Princess Mary asked after thinking about it. \u003c/p\u003e"Naturally, we want to do freight. The cost of passenger transportation is too high. Even if we do passenger transportation, we will definitely not do fast cruises." The prince said. Once upon a time, high-speed cruise ships were a symbol of national strength just like battleships. Don’t you see, in history, the Germans produced the Kaiser Wilhelm cruise ship with a displacement of 14,000 tons and a speed of 22.5 knots in 1897. And set a record for the fastest ship to and from the Atlantic that year. \u003c/p\u003eBehind the beauty of the cruise ship is the huge cost. The speed of the ship and the fuel consumption are not directly proportional. Take the famous cruiser Emden in history as an example. This ship has a normal displacement of more than 3,600 tons and a full load displacement If a light cruiser of more than 4,000 tons sails at an economical speed of 12 knots, it only consumes 2 tons of coal per hour, but if it sails at a speed of 23 knots, the coal consumption per hour is as high as 15.7 tons! Almost 8 times the economic speed! \u003c/p\u003eIf it is converted into the consumption of the same voyage, it will be 4 times! Not to mention that the later blue ribbons can travel between the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean at a speed of 24 knots or even 26 knots. Not to mention the construction cost and maintenance cost, the fuel consumption alone is very amazing. \u003c/p\u003eSome people may say that you can sail at a slow speed, so now the problem is coming again, high-end cruise ships are aimed at high-end customers, what people need is time, if you double the time at sea, then the price how to count? Moreover, the fuel is saved, but the food and lodging of thousands of people on the ship, as well as the expenses of service personnel, increase, so it is a very risky thing to build a high-speed cruise ship. And those blue ribbons in history have also been in trouble for economic reasons. These include the Emperor Cruises and Bismarck cruises that were compensated to the British after the end of World War I. \u003c/p\u003e "Then you need to ask your Italian designer to design a good ship for us." Princess Mary said slightly displeased. As a woman, besides shopping, all kinds of clothing, and those shiny and golden things, she also likes more fashionable things such as sports cars, and as a princess of a country, it is understandable that she likes luxury cruise ships... … \u003c/p\u003e "Well, recently, due to some well-known reasons, there have been some differences between me and Count Vittorio Cuniberti, but in terms of suitable ocean-going transport ships, I have one!" said the prince. \u003c/p\u003eFrom the current point of view, as long as the ship can be loaded, the high-tech and high-investment fast cruise prince does not plan to get it. Now there are no high-end ships such as natural gas ships, passenger-cargo ships, and container ships. , so the most realistic ship in this plane is a ship such as Liberty Ship, which is easy to mass-produce and super-loadable! \u003c/p\u003eOf course, Germany in this plane cannot be compared with the United States in World War II in history. Let alone assemble a ship in less than 5 days in the end, a 14,000-ton cargo ship can be completed in 300 days. The prince is Amitabha up! However, some of the methods and ideas can still be used for reference. \u003c/p\u003eThe first point is product modularization and standardized production! Standardize the various accessories of a ship as much as possible,

And disperse it to as many factories as possible for production. The principle is similar to that of the assembly line, except that the things are made bigger. The prince has already done tentative work in this regard. The prototype of the Sea Wolf assault ship is actually a kind of label Commercially produced civilian ships. \u003c/p\u003eSecond, with the appropriate tonnage and various accessories, it is very reasonable for Liberty Ship to choose a displacement of 14,000 tons, because if the tonnage is too small, the sea trial and economy of the ship will be poor. After all, everything pays attention to a scale effect. And if it is too large, then the construction difficulty and cost are very problematic. So at the beginning, the size of the cargo ship chosen by the prince was between 5,000 tons and 7,000 tons, but now, since ocean-going ships are going to be built, it is natural to increase the tonnage to about 10,000 tons. The length of the ship is more than 100 meters, the width is 20 meters, and the draft is about 7.5 meters. Enough to fit most ports in the world. \u003c/p\u003eAs for the so-called accessories, it is to cope with the diversity of cargo loaded on ships. The structure of the free ship built during the war is very simple, with a total of eight cabins, and the bow cabin is filled with ballast water and anchor room. The No. 4 cabin in the middle of the hull is the power cabin. The power of the ship is very low, using an old-fashioned steam engine with an output of several thousand horsepower, and the maximum speed is 11 knots. Then the remaining 6 are warehouses, and this kind of warehouse has only two floors. The upper floor usually holds various items, and the lower floor generally holds water, fuel, etc. \u003c/p\u003eDuring the war, these ships transported thick and solid goods such as airplanes, cannons, cans, and ammunition. Such a simple result can naturally make do, but if it is normal, it is inevitable to transport some perishable food crops or For other fragile items, in this case, the open warehouse needs to be improved, and in order to accommodate some fragile items, multiple decks need to be set up. \u003c/p\u003eThe prince's method is to produce this simple ship while also producing some other accessories, so that it can be used to transport a variety of goods after being improved at the port. Originally, the prince wanted to see if he could get a standardized container for future generations. \u003c/p\u003eBut looking at the current situation, cars are not popularized, how to transport those large containers unloaded from the port? Pulled by a cart? Obviously not! So, the prince decided to start getting some smaller standardized boxes that could be pulled by a horse-drawn cart and could be accepted by current unloading equipment such as cranes. \u003c/p\u003eIn terms of power selection, the prince finally chose a kerosene-fired boiler. There are two reasons for this. The first reason is that the cost of a kerosene-fired boiler with the same power is lower than that of a pure coal boiler. . The second reason is that the cost of using kerosene-fired boilers is relatively low. Under the same quality, the combustion of the best coal is about half of that of heavy oil. And the coal needs to be cleaned of soot. Labor costs will be higher. Secondly, these ships are going on international routes, and if they are going on American routes, they will naturally not be short of heavy fuel oil. After all, the United States is now the largest oil producing country. And if there is no oil, coal can also make do! \u003c/p\u003eThanks to book friends 2013, Wu Yue, Kaixin Xiongjun, xiaotang246, and Sea Boundary\u003c/a\u003e~~~! And \u003c/a\u003e support from book friends such as tiger-1, yangjianf, Kong Chen, Da Daban, Tie 18 Sword~~~! Three updates today, please subscribe\u003c/a\u003e~~~! \u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e