C844 Voltaire Shipyard (1/2)
The earliest Iron-armored battleship s were actually not that rare. In the ancient times, the navy already had their wooden hull covered with iron armor, but in the Three Kingdoms, they had already installed iron shields on the outer layer of their ships to prevent the enemy from using rockets and catapults.
In order to defeat Shi Shan's wish temple in Japan, Zhi Tianxinchang specially made an iron armored ship. In reality, it was just a large residential ship with a metal plate on the outside. In the end, they won a great victory against the Maori's house's army in the Inner Sea and finally seized the famous city, Stone Mountain Temple.
In fact, North Korea had also researched their own Armored Boat. Li Shunchen's Turtle Ship was actually a Primordial Armored Ship, and the Japanese had suffered a great loss in front of it. Don't think that the name of the Turtle Ship sounded bad.
These Middle Age's so-called Iron-armored Ship were obviously not what Xiao Letian wanted, and 19 mid-century leaf's Europeans relied on the sail battleship's design line of thought, creating a batch of Iron-armored Ship s that were not what Xiao Letian wanted either.
In 1858, the French made the world's first Iron-armored Ship, with a discharge of 5630 tons. However, this was still a battleship made out of iron and wood, it was not a pure Iron-armored Ship.
This time, he could be considered to have given up on the wood in the metal plate. However, the sail was still there, and the cannons were arranged in the same way as the previous sail battleship, with a row on the left and a row on the right.
As for the American Civil War, although this was the first time the Iron-armored Ship were used in actual combat, the shapes of the two Iron-armored Ship were too weird. They could only shoot at each other in the river, completely unable to enter the ocean.
In Xiao Letian's eyes, the true origin of Iron-armored Ship should still be pushed forward by another thirty years. Only at the early twentieth century would it truly be the era of Iron-armored Ship.
The pure steam power could give up on the sail, the main cannon's central axis could be aligned and it could freely spin the cannon emplacement, completely giving up on the musket … This type of Iron Armor Sea Beast was the Overlord of the Seas in Xiao Letian's eyes.
What was displayed in the Voltaire Shipyard today was a top-secret plan jointly led by Xiao Letian and Prince Karl. It was a very bold attempt.
The Voltaire Shipyard was situated on the shore of the Oder River, in Shechern, close to the mouth of the sea. To the north was the Baltic Sea. The shipyard had deliberately invested in a huge dry dock for secrecy, and had built a huge shelf of wooden shelves and cloth. Engineers and workers who could enter were all highly reliable people who had been strictly selected by the Prussians.
When King Yi's carriage entered the shipyard, Fang Guan and the others just realised that a golden-painted carriage was parked in front of the office building. They were all very familiar with this carriage, it was the carriage of Prince Karl.
”The prince has already arrived. Be careful of your appearance and appearance …” The King Yi warned everyone, but these words were useless against Fang Guan. Inside the living room, Prince Karl just picked up a cup of coffee and Fang Guan threw himself over with a loud shout.
”Godfather …” Fang Guan stirred up a gust of wind, and directly threw himself into Prince Karl's embrace. In order to avoid Fang Guan's white dress, Karl spilled all the coffee on his pants.
”Oh, you are so naughty! ”I really should find you a powerful prince to deal with you …”
”No …” ”I don't need a prince, all of you know how to fight, just like a combative rooster …”
”Haha, then who do you like? And you even clicked on the French intelligence officer? ” Karl laughed.
Fang Guan shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, ”I only gave him a chance to pursue me. What comes after will depend on his ability …”