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In terms of the hull alone, the hull of a 30,000-ton civilian vessel is more troublesome and requires more investment, but technically, there is no problem.

Even building a 30,000-ton civilian ship is technically simpler and much simpler than building a 10,000-ton battleship.

At present, there are more than a dozen shipyards in the empire that can undertake the construction of 10,000-ton passenger ships and freighters. There are even more shipyards who can immediately upgrade their technology and start construction as long as they pay.

However, there are only three shipyards in the empire that can take orders for large naval ships, that is, armored cruisers and battleships!

Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard, Jiangnan Shipyard, Qingdao Naval Shipyard, nothing else!

Even those cruisers and frigates of more than 1,000 tons in the navy, and even the offshore patrol ships of several hundred tons, their construction technical standards are not low. Many shipyards can build 10,000-ton passenger ships, but they are still unable to undertake a 1,000-ton navy ship. Ton frigate order.

Even for cruisers of more than 2,000 tons, there are not many shipyards that are qualified to build them, and most of them are shipyards controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Royal Assets Division. These shipyards often invest a lot of resources to build warships. , which is economically disadvantageous.

Among the private shipyards, the most technologically advanced one should belong to the Shamian Shipyard. It does not seem to be very large in scale, but with strong technology, the ships built are difficult, high value-added and very profitable ships. .

For example, for the 10,000-ton ocean-going tankers of Imperial Oil Company and Nanyang Oil Company, most of the orders for 10,000-ton oil tankers were robbed by Shamian Shipyard.

The shipyard has built 4,000-ton battleships/protected cruisers and is now building West India-class cruisers, New South-class frigates and other warships for the Navy.

The company's technology is not to be said. There are not many ships built every year, and the tonnage of the ships is far less than that of other first-tier domestic large shipyards. However, for every 10,000 tons of ships built, the net profit earned exceeds Other shipyards build ships of 50,000 tons, so Shamian is the second most profitable shipyard in the Empire.

As for the first!

That is naturally the Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard, which is wholly-owned by the Royal Assets Section. They are all high-end goods, such as battleships, armored cruisers, 10,000-ton passenger ships, freighters, special ships and the like.

Shamian Shipyard is actually following the path of Hong Kong's Dingsheng Shipyard.

And what about Feng's First Shipyard, a subsidiary of Feng's Shipping Company?

In terms of production capacity, they rely on Feng Shipping Company, and they also rely on low cost to undertake a large number of external orders. There are always busy orders throughout the year. Therefore, in terms of production capacity, the production capacity of Feng's No. 1 Shipyard is very large. , enough to enter the top five in the country.

But their technical capabilities are in many shipyards in China, even if they are optimistic and cheeky, they can only say that their technical capabilities can enter the top ten.

But in fact, the top ten is still not very credible. The external comment is that it is estimated that there is no problem in entering the top twenty, and the top fifteen is not enough.

top ten? Is it fake that you are a large number of domestic first-class shipyards with strong technology?

The lack of technical capabilities also made the management of Feng's No. 1 Shipyard very worried about whether they could build the 30,000-ton Nova.

However, when the technical engineers of their shipyard had a discussion and learned that the head office only asked them to build the hull, the head office would solve the most core system, that is, the power system.

This is to relax!

If you only build one hull, although it is a little more difficult and troublesome, as long as you have enough funds, you can smash it out.

Soon, Feng's No. 1 Shipyard officially replied to their head office: It can be built!

However, they need to obtain about 200,000 Tang Yuan in advance to upgrade the dock and construction equipment. In the medium term, they also need about 300,000 Tang Yuan for technical upgrading.

After the first shipyard gave a positive answer, Guo Yadong took the account directly from the head office with a stroke of his pen, and the 200,000 early-stage technology upgrade funds went directly to the first shipyard.

Then he made one and only one requirement to the first shipyard: the new star must have 30,000 tons, and even less than one ton will not work!

After solving the hull construction problem, Guo Yadong personally led the team to the Navy Steam Engine Factory for negotiation, and won the latest three-expansion steam engine developed by the Navy for the 20,000-ton battleship.

In fact, this thing is said to be a steam engine for a 20,000-ton battleship, but in fact, it has long been abandoned by the Navy, because this plan is far from reaching the Navy of the Navy.

The requirements of the navy for the new power system are: it can be stuffed into the hull of a 20,000-ton battleship, and can provide a power system of at least 25,000 horsepower.

The power system prepared by the Naval Steam Engine Plant can only provide a maximum of 15,000 horsepower under the limited volume and weight in the early stage.

In order to achieve this 15,000 horsepower, the engineers of the Naval Steam Engine Factory frantically designed a set of super vertical triple-expansion steam engines with extremely large volume and weight, just to meet the operation of two steam engines, it is equipped with enough power. There are twelve coal-fired boilers, which are propelled by double shafts and double propellers.

However, even so, it failed to meet the requirements of the Navy.

However, the high requirements of the navy do not mean that the requirements of Feng Shipping Company are also so high.

Fung Shipping's speed requirement for Nova is also very simple, that is, it must surpass all current ocean liners.

At present, among the ocean liners, the fastest speed is the New Pacific series. They also use the latest expensive triple-expansion steam engine, so they can reach a high speed of 14 knots during cruising, and the maximum speed can reach 15 knots.

This speed is already very fast for civilian ships.

At present, except for luxury passenger ships that pursue high speed, the average speed of ordinary passenger ships is only about eight to ten knots. Even if it is a so-called high-speed passenger ship, it is actually only about twelve knots.

As for freighters, it is even lower. For freighters powered by pure steam engines, the speed is generally maintained at about seven or eight knots, and rarely exceeds ten knots.

The speed of fourteen knots is already super fast for a large civilian passenger ship.

And the goal of Nova is to exceed this speed.

To achieve this goal, the only way is to directly find the Navy Steam Engine Factory and buy their most advanced and most expensive triple expansion steam engine solution specially developed for 20,000-ton battleships.

Even, it cannot be the original plan, because if it is only the original plan, the power is still insufficient.

Improvements to steam engines and coal-fired boilers must be added!