The disputes in the conference room became increasingly fierce, from day to night.

In order to stimulate his brains, Heit even went out and took back all the design team members who had lived at home for more than half a year and were eager to get out of the predicament.

A dozen tall, fat and thin persons were sitting among the piles of gold coins, burning tobacco, filling coffee, red eyes and stammering their necks. You can imagine the chaos in the conference room.

But no matter what, they succeeded.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, as Humphreys wrote the last stroke on the draft paper, everyone celebrating each other, and a deafening cheering sound broke out.

Hatter won the first honor to report the results to Lorraine.

"Mr. Kenway, my expertise is high-speed ships. Now we can report our ideas to you with high-speed, high-speed and flexibility."

With a loud bang, he turned around the design drawings and the drafts in front of him.

"First of all, it is sailing. On the basis of the original Bermuda sail, the Bermuda cloth sail model is fully adopted, and the bowsprit is lengthened to 15 meters, so that it can accommodate the lower five large triangular bow sails."

"The overall sail layout is as follows: the main mast is seven narrow-sided horizontal sail, six front mast, four rear mast, full wing sail, five large triangular bow sail, front main mast catch sail on four sides, main rear mast catch sail on three sides, and rear mast twenty meters high with bone soft sails."

"At the same time, we gave up the original white glue line coating and switched to the most expensive ship-bottomed copper. The copper sheet is 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick, which is expected to speed up by 20%, and the high-spirit and flexibility can meet your requirements!"

Kron followed closely behind and stood up: "You know I am good at traditional warship design, so I will report on the offensive and defensive arrangement."

"In terms of firepower, we still maintain the design of a single-layer gun cabin, but the gun door to the caliber has been fully upgraded, reaching 54 doors in the entire ship."

"The gun bay uses 30 32-pound long-range guns on both sides as the main guns, the main deck is equipped with three fronts and four rears, and 14 24-pound short guns on both sides as melee secondary guns. The bow gun is double-layered, two 68-pound mortar guns and two 18-pound short guns, two stern guns and two 12-pound centrifugal guns and four 18-pound centrifugal guns."

Lorraine rolled her eyes when she heard this: "Kron, thirty-two pounds long and sixty-eight pounds of mortars are non-civilian, and the unheard twenty-four pounds short, where are you going to find it?"

Kron raised his hand and pointed at Hayte: "Twenty-four pounds short is a great creation of the Rostennis Gun Factory in Boston. It has changed the disadvantage of the upper-level guns with small caliber and low loading, greatly improving the power of the cutting side of the high-speed ship. What's ridiculous is that the US Navy has no warships suitable for using it so far, and powerful countries such as Britain and France do not know its existence yet."

"But it is a local specialty from Boston after all, and the general manager said he can get it, even the United States' equipment license approval documents can be prepared."

"As for the 32-pound long way... Plymouts had a design that used heavy artillery special retreat rails and gun mounts on medium-caliber and small-caliber naval guns to achieve British speed in small and medium-caliber, and further widen the gap between Britain and other countries in artillery loading speed."

Kren shrugged: "This plan naturally aborted due to cost and cost-effectiveness, but it formed two products. First, the mature and reliable additional gun mount modification plan was in my mind; second, the heavy gun mount became a separate commodity, and for some reason, it has not been included in non-civilian use."

"So my plan is to buy a cannon seat from the UK, and then buy 32 pounds of legal system through Earl Galves and modify it yourself."

"French guns are light and accurate, with long range and high durability. With the support of British speed, even if the mid-range bombing of 300 to 500 meters is 300 meters, our battleships will not lose to any third-class ship of any country."

Lorraine was stunned by this crazy idea. With British speed and French precision, she made up the best thirty-two-pound long cannon in the world...

Importantly, this plan is indeed feasible and has a very high possibility of success, and there are almost no difficulties in the process.

But he soon thought of a more critical issue and couldn't help but take a breath.

"From today, this renovation plan will be included in the shipyard's top secret. No one is allowed to spread it. It is not allowed to be applied to any individual or national ship without the special permission of the board meeting. At the same time, the outsourcing of the renovation castings involved must be mixed in other projects, and even the renovation can only be carried out secretly by the personnel present."

"Anyway, if you don't want to become a life-and-death enemy of the Royal Navy, this plan will be so bad that you don't even reveal your wife and children! I need you to swear for this."

...

With such explicit concerns raised, the smart people present will certainly not be able to think of the key.

Everyone made a solemn oath, and many people made a poisonous oath. Faith, soul, family, reputation, and all kinds of valuable things were placed on the altar just to make Lorraine and her companions believe that they would keep the secret.

After the crowd made a vow, most of the excitement in the conference room had dissipated.

No one mentioned the matter of thirty-two pounds long. Even the 68 pounds of mortars were temporarily put on hold. Lorraine only allowed the cannon position to be vacant, and Lorraine slowly figured out the other ones.

Kron continued his report.

"In terms of defense, we are preparing to introduce a full-cover gun door solution."

"Building a gun bay on the main deck gun position is the mainstream design of small and medium-sized military ships. On the one hand, it can reduce the artillery preparation process on the upper deck and improve the overall response speed of the warship; on the other hand, it can give the upper level gunners better protection, allowing them to focus on the enemy with the greatest concentration."

"In the second step, we are preparing to attach armor to the outside of the hull, especially the line of the gun cabin."

"Now the mainstream armor is generally cast iron, with thicknesses of 1 inch (2.5 cm), 2 inch (5.1 cm) and 2.5 inch (6.4 cm), but the only one that can be close to 50 meters to defend 24 pounds of direct strike is 2.5 inches, so that is our only choice."

"In implementation, using patch iron armor to defend the important parts of the hull are the latest modification technology in recent years, but it is not military technology. We can easily find excellent craftsmen in Europe, and the only thing we need to invest is money."

"The last step is the third step, mast protection."

"Considering the situation where you must fight with a first-class or second-class ship in special circumstances, we analyzed that due to the huge height difference between the two sides' freeboards, the type of bullet that is most likely to cause a fatal blow to us will be the chain bullet."

"Once the mast is broken by a chain bounce, we will lose the speed of escaping, which is our biggest fatal hole."

"So the key to dealing with this situation is to protect the mast. Our solution is very simple. We install iron protection three meters at the root of the mast, connected with rivets, with a thickness of 2 inches, taking into account the protection performance and the center of gravity of the mast. We believe that this solution is enough to protect the mast from being broken at the same root."

"The above are all the plans for offense and defense!"

Amid applause, Cron took a seat, and Humphreys, the last master present, stood up to face Lorraine.

He said with great enthusiasm: "Mr. Kenwei, I am best at establishing mathematical models and adjusting the center of gravity, so this time I will give the final summary."

"Comprehensive the above transformation plan, the final theoretical data of the battleship is 62.2 meters long, 13.6 meters wide, 7.5 meters draft, 2,500 tons of drainage, and 400 people full of crew."

"Its windward speed can reach 13 knots and 4.5 knots against the wind. Turn it in place for 15 minutes, and the steering radius is no more than three hulls, taking into account both speed and flexibility."

"In terms of firepower, its preset main gun is 32 pounds long and the secondary gun is 24 pounds short. The strongest firepower is 68 pounds of mortar gun on the bow. It can cause a devastating direct attack on the first-class ship at close range."

"In terms of protection, the core part can withstand three rounds of direct strikes of twenty-four-pound cannons at a distance of 50 meters, and one direct strike of thirty-two-pound cannons. Overall, it will beat all the four-class ships today and can effectively suppress the third-class ships."

"Since the renovation plan does not adjust much to the hull, there is no need to customize new wooden components. The main building time is expected to be 18 months and the specialized renovation is 18 months. The construction budget includes labor, ship installation, consumption, sea trials, etc., totaling about 150,000-180,000 pounds, which is nearly twice the cost of the first-class ship foundation, and the full price exceeds 30%.

"Is it more than a fully equipped first-class ship..." Lorraine opened her mouth, but could not say how to give up this depressing word, so she could only grit her teeth, "Isn't it just to make money... make money! That's it!"

The repressed and restrained cheers suddenly rose, and Lorraine knew that it was the gratitude from the bottom of a group of technical mates when they found their suckers.

Humphreys's face turned red with excitement, and even his voice trembled.

"After preliminary calculations, most of the transformations can be completed smoothly, with only 32-pound cannons..."

"What's wrong with the cannon?"

Humphreys gritted his teeth: "The recoil of the 32-pound long cannon is too great, and the aspect ratio of the new ship is larger than that of ordinary main battleships. Therefore, in the environment above the middle wave, it is estimated that a large rear elevation angle may occur, which will have a significant impact on the stability of the shelling."

"There are two plans now. One is to remove at least four main guns per string and reduce the total number of guns to 46. The other is to replace 8 guns on both sides of the single side of the gun cabin with eighteen pounds, but it will greatly reduce the firepower intensity of the experimental ship..."

Lorraine blinked: "Is it just because of the aspect ratio?"

Humphreys nodded: "The draft and tonnage are enough, only the aspect ratio..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lorraine had already taken the matter in confusion.

"Since it's just a matter of aspect ratio, why don't you consider reducing fins?"
Chapter completed!