Last night's experience was probably the biggest Lorraine had ever had since the death of the captain at Cherbourg.

A total of 22 people were killed and 16 were injured to varying degrees, of which 19 were killed and none survived.

The Jackdaw is also sacrificing sequences.

The keel was broken, the stern was broken, the mainmast and backmast were broken, and the aft deck was in shambles, and it was almost impossible to find a complete place.

If it weren't for the fact that the Jackdaw simply didn't have the combat power to do it, Lorraine had only a minimum of gunpowder and shells, and the explosion alone would have been enough to send the ship directly to the bottom of the sea.

And now, after a night of tossing, the fire has been extinguished, the hull of the ship has barely been saved, the salvage of personal belongings in the stern is almost over, and all the munitions that flew out have been handed over to the Saints Regiment to operate.

Lorraine had two immediate problems, one was how to avoid the eyes and ears of people, and how to get out of the ancient gold objects weighing more than three hundred pounds and nearly fifty thousand pounds worth of gold coins under the bilge deck.

The total weight of the gold amounted to more than 370 kilograms, and the main body consisted of hundreds of thousands of gold coins of brilliant octagonal, tens of thousands of pounds sterling and almost the same amount of gold louis.

If these evils were piled up on the embankment, Lorraine feared that he would go to war with the whites of the former bay.

The other is the ship......

The Jackdaw's life was doomed, and Lorraine had lost its flagship for the first time in her life.

To make matters worse, the Jackdaw was important to him and was worth much more than just a good ship.

He needed to find a replacement for the Jackdaw as soon as possible, a super-high-speed merchant ship with plenty of holds, large enough, and some self-preservation.

And such ships can only be found in three places, one in Bermuda, one in Baltimore, and one in Boston's Back Bay in the present-day way.

That's why Lorraine followed Jefferson to Back Bay.

With Jefferson's wisdom, he must have known Lorraine's needs.

Since he had recommended his friend at this time, Lorraine had reason to be optimistic. Haidt's shipyard owner happened to have the water tank and boat that Lorraine needed.

As a result, it turned out to be good.

Seeing the smoke-smoking Jackdaw slowly being dragged into the temporarily rented shipyard water tank by two tugboats, Lorraine finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Haight, I am so grateful that you were willing to take us in after what happened last night."

On the docks of the water warehouse, Lorraine, Jefferson, and a tall, muscular gentleman gathered.

This gentleman was Jefferson's friend Aemond. Haight, the owner of the Haight Shipyard in Boston, is a well-mannered man with oil and paint seeping through his fingers.

How so...... It's like another Clen, who doesn't even speak well.

Listening to Lorraine's politeness, Haidt waved his hands and was humble.

"No, no, Mr. Kenway, I didn't do anything for you. The water warehouse was rented by you, and even the accident payment clause was your proposal, and I couldn't find any reason to refuse in the face of a gentleman like you. ”

"For the sake of people? Probably no one in Qianwan would look at it like this now......" Lorraine chuckled and pointed outside the warehouse.

Haidt's face showed obvious disappointment, and even his broad shoulders drooped.

"Really? Yes, your experience last night was too thrilling, and you should rest now instead of dealing with me, a stranger you met for the first time......"

Lorraine gave Jefferson a strange look, but saw only a helpless wry smile on the face of the cunning politician.

But Jefferson didn't seem to have any intention of interjecting.

Lorraine rolled her eyes in frustration: "Mr. Haight probably misunderstood. I didn't mean the door, I was talking about your shipyard. ”

"My dock?"

"Yes, you've seen the condition of the Jackdaw. Since Mr. Governor introduced me here, I think you have a nice boat on your hands, right? ”

……

Lorraine never imagined that an optimistic temptation would lead him to such a strange ship.

Yes, strange.

At the third dry dock of the Haidt shipyard, Lorraine stood in front of a large ship with a mast down, silently flipping through the detailed sea trial report provided by Haidt.

According to the description of the sea trial report, the ship, named Daobiao, was 53 meters long, 9.7 meters wide, had a draft of 5.5 meters and had a displacement of 1,150 tons.

She was supposed to be a three-masted bagh of the same type as the Jackdaw, with a total of three backward-leaning masts, a mainmast of 52 meters long, an elevation of 50 meters, and a sail mounted in two horizontal and one vertical, which sounded decent.

Of course, what sounds like it is what it sounds like, because no living person with eyes would associate the word "way" with the word "decent".

This is a demon ship cursed by speed!

The fragile hollow bow sacrificed the bow guns and shifted the center of gravity back, which was for the sake of speed.

The standard Baltimore design of the bow shield stern improves the ability to break through waves and divide water, for the sake of speed.

The mast tilts back to further adjust the center of gravity, while the tilting mast allows the mast to be longer, the sail surface larger, and the probability that the rear sail will block the front sail from the wind is reduced, all for speed.

Even when warships around the world were still arguing about the aspect ratio of 3.5 or 4, she had adopted the extreme fiber ratio of 5.5 and turned the entire ship into an arrow, also for speed.

And that's not all.

Compared to the hollow bow, up to two layers of six stern guns were clearly designed to make the bow higher.

The traditional one-mast four-width sail was replaced by a seven-beam narrow sail to increase the agility of the wind.

The wingsail is, of course, an indispensable high-speed configuration.

In addition, the 12-metre-long bow mast is equipped with four Bermuda triangular bow sails to enhance the windward force.

The dense four sailcatches between the mainmast and foremast enhance the windward force. 27KK

Arranged throughout the trailmast, the nearly 40-metre-tall Super Bermuda bone-soft sail has a significant increase in windward power.

All this creates the road mark in front of you.

With a speed of 16 knots downwind and 5.5 knots against the wind, Lorraine dares to guarantee that she is the fastest in the world among large ships above 50 meters!

But is that really good?

In order to achieve superior speed, the Dow Marker paid the price of an extremely sensitive ship's center of gravity and a weaker ability to resist wind and waves than Brigenting.

The ship may not capsize while it is open, but it will only require a round of broadside shelling......

There was no need to pair a twenty-four-pounder gun of her level, as long as eighteen pounder, she would definitely be overturned by the recoil of the cannon.

In other words, she is not an armed merchant ship at all, but a simple and extremely fast merchant ship.

But Lorraine saw the gun doors on the side of the road marking, some sporadic, strange, different from the normal square, the style was obviously rectangular.

Curious, he turned to the second page of the shipboard evaluation, and was immediately impressed by the whimsy of the design team of Haite Shipyard.

The road marker was indeed not suitable for equipping shipborne guns, so the original two-story gun compartment was changed to one floor, and the upper deck was adjusted to a simple cargo hold.

On the lower floor, the designers creatively arranged a peculiar diamond-shaped gun bay, combined with the fan-shaped gun rail, to fix two firing directions diagonally forward and diagonally backward in square inches, one for pursuit and one for escape.

Lorraine was amazed and couldn't help but read it out loud.

"This is probably the most nerdy artillery scheme in the history of HNA......"

Haight had been nervously waiting for Lorraine's evaluation, but he was so nervous that he couldn't hear Lorraine's words for a while.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Kenway......"

Lorraine shook her head and closed the report: "You don't have to worry about me, please introduce me to the road marker, I am very interested in her." ”

"Yes!" Haight's face flushed with excitement, "This kid is calling a beacon, a beacon, a beacon, a beacon, a guiding light, because she's a Boston daughter!" ”

"Boston is America's beacon. On the one hand, the town's earliest colony was between three mountains, the tallest and most central of the three mountains being Beacon Hill. ”

"On the other hand, Paul. Revere's midnight ride, with the wind lantern hanging from the spire of the Old North Church, started our independent enterprise, which was nicknamed the guiding light by the people of the United States. ”

"Thirdly, this ship is an experimental ship of great design, a signpost for a new era of the ocean. We tried to find out from her the way to the high speed of large warships......"

"So, she's an experiment, and she's an immature experiment, isn't she?" Lorraine interrupted with a smile.

"Yes...... Yes. ”

"Since you say that you want to find out from her the way to the high speed of a large battleship, may I take the liberty of asking what is the elevation angle of her full round of broadside shelling?"

"It depends on the storms and ...... at the time"

"Gentle wind, gentle waves."

“5…… 5 degrees. Haight rolled his eyes away.

"5 degrees?"

"5 degrees...... to 15 degrees. ”

Lorraine opened her mouth wide: "Are you saying that you and your team gave up a whole layer of firepower, placed 16 guns in the space of 24 guns, and even gave up the T-head advantage, she still has an elevation angle of 15 degrees?" ”

"In the case of slight waves...... That's right. ”

"What about the big waves?"

Haidt shrank slightly at Lorraine's yell: "Because the medium wave and the big wave are evaluated after the micro wave, those hired sailors refused...... However, they happily paid the liquidated damages......"

"Didn't you think that the best destination for this ship was actually dismantled by your own hands when you got the liquidated damages?"

"Uh......"

Looking at the clumsy and poorly spoken Haight, Lorraine had no idea whether to cry or laugh.

"Forget it, Mr. Haight, let me ask the last question, how much does the road sign cost?"

Haight felt like he had grasped the last straw.

"Mr. Kenway! The boy was made of the finest Bermuda cypress, and the sails were handmade from Baltimore, full of 16 18-pounder long-range guns and 6 twelve-pounder medium-range stern, built for three years, and I have been carefully maintained to be in better condition than when I was new......"

"Sorry, I'd like to hear the price."

Haight gritted his teeth and said hoarsely: "The price ...... The price of the road mark is 7,500 pounds! ”

Lorraine was shocked again.

Not because it's too expensive, it's because it's too cheap.

The road marker is covered with the top material of the high-speed ship, and with that pitiful ship, even if it is sold for 15,000 pounds, it can only be regarded as a good return, not to mention that it has been maintained in the dry dock for three years.

Dry dock maintenance is a special treatment that can only be enjoyed by first- and second-class ships, and after maintenance, the wood will become tougher and more resistant to corrosion, in other words, it can greatly increase the service life of the ship.

Just a merchant ship, as for it?

If this ship means a lot to Haight, why would he sell it cheaply?

Thinking of this, a sentence suddenly popped into Lorraine's mind.

[This ship is an experimental ship of great design, and it is a signpost of a new era of oceans]......

"Mr. Haight, may I take the liberty of asking, are you short of money?"