Chapter 591 (1/2)
”Chief, according to the rules, you should name the ship.” After introducing the ship, Carlos said very seriously.
”Name?” Shi Xiong was stunned for a moment, and then realized that although this is only an experimental ship, it is absolutely an epoch-making steel warship. It seems that only he has the qualification to name it.
However, it's only an experimental ship after all, and it's not a regular warship, so the stone bear doesn't intend to be named after the tribe or its celebrities,
But when he saw Adrian Carlos around him, he said with a smile, ”Adrian, you have made a great contribution to this ship, so if you think it's OK, I'd like to name this ship after you, Carlos. What do you think? ”
As soon as he said this, Carlos's face suddenly turned red, and all the faces around him looked envious.
This is a great honor!
Naming a ship after a person's surname is definitely the highest reward for that person.
Carlos naturally knew what it meant, so he was so excited that he almost fainted.
After a long time, Carlos gradually recovered from the excitement. After a series of ”thank you”, he waited for the official entry of the ship with an irrepressible smile.
Under the order of stone bear, all the people who were busy at the bottom of the dock climbed up. Carlos yelled several times. After he was sure that there was no one in the dock, he ordered to open the water gate of the dry dock.
As the dock gate is lifted up, the water of the Elizabeth River begins to pour in. But it will take a while to fully fill the dock.
Almost everyone was watching the ship nervously.
With more and more water pouring in, the ship really floated slowly!
Cheers immediately rang out in the dry dock, which was almost sealed.
This is not a wooden boat. It can float with the buoyancy of the wood itself. This is a steel ship to the letter!
The stone bear didn't cheer, but his face also showed a smile.
The stone bear never doubted whether the Carlos could float.
This is a ship built with hot riveting technology. In this era, there is no welding technology, only this riveting technology can be used to rivet the hull. Before World War I, all steel warship hulls were riveted with this riveting technology.
Of course, this kind of technology is the only one for scorpions at present. For this technology, Carlos spent a lot of effort to do various experiments, and finally determined how to rivet. It took more than half a year just to study the hot riveting technology, even if the stone bear gave directions in the general direction.
Maybe there are loopholes in this hot riveting technology, but it doesn't matter. With the launch of the Carlos, whether this technology will work or not will be known through a sea trial.
As for the ship, in fact, the stone bear is based on the Caldwell class destroyer built by the later American navy at the end of World War I.
Coincidentally, before the stone bear went to the United States to visit and study, one of his friends had just made a model of a Caldwell class destroyer by hand.