In order to ensure the secrecy of Cork Harbor and the possible appearance of ships from other countries on the route from Cork Harbor to North America, Marin decided to station a fleet of 10 warships in Cork Harbor.

Equip merchant ships with class 250, but equip all of them with 20 guns, instead of only a few guns like merchant ships. As soon as a ship is detected trying to approach this route, fire a warning gun immediately. If you don't heed the warning, sink it.

Marin estimated that the six French Calais ships were almost now combat-ready. Perhaps, they will take the initiative to provoke. Marin did not want to interfere in the battle between the Calais ships and the British Kirk, however, he would never allow the Calais ships to approach the port of Cork and the route from the port of Cork to North America.

In the future, Marin also intends to station a fleet of 20 warships in Cork Harbor to cruise the southern waters of the Cork Harbor to North America route. In addition to guarding against foreign ships seeing clippers, there are also precautions for French merchant ships venturing to North America.

Historically, the French adventure merchant ships have been operating in Canadian waters. In addition, he is often actively involved in the beaver pelt trade in Canada.

In fact, the latitudes of France and Canada are largely parallel. The French merchant ships could reach the east coast of Canada as long as they sailed straight west on the Atlantic.

It is also interesting to say that France has a very high latitude, the same latitude as eastern Canada and northeastern China, but France is a warm region, while Canada and the northeast are bitter cold places.

This is related to the influence of ocean currents, because of the influence of the North Atlantic Current, although the British and French are at a high latitude, they are warmer than Northeast China. The situation in Canada is more complicated, divided into two situations - Newfoundland Island is the dividing line, the north side is affected by the Labrador Snap, and the cold climate is the same as that of the Outer Northeast. The southern part of Newfoundland, on the other hand, is warmer due to the influence of the North Atlantic Warm Current branch (the main trunk tilts to the east and tilts to the European side). The confluence of warm currents and cold currents also formed the Newfoundland fishing grounds on the east side of the island of Newfoundland. Similarly, the Hokkaido fishing grounds were formed by the confluence of the Japanese Warm Current and the Cold Kuril Current.

Fortunately, Marin has carried out malicious demonization propaganda against the Americas, resulting in the current Europeans not being interested in the Americas. But after all, the paper can't contain the fire. Just like this time, the French were going to send people to the Delaware Peninsula to investigate, forcing Marin to let Karn and them play the orcs.

Marin has now been dragging the French and not letting them go. Karn and the others were almost done rehearsing, and were ready to go to the Delaware Peninsula to familiarize themselves with the grounds, where they practiced many times. When the people sent by France arrive, they will be able to play live.

But in any case, after this time, French people who have been to the Delaware Peninsula can feel the climate of North America. Despite the intimidation of the orc drama, I am afraid that it will not stop the French from taking risks. After all, Marin can find the Delaware Peninsula and resist the attack of the "orcs" by building the Great Wall, why can't France?

Even if only a few people dare to take risks, and most of them are individual behaviors, it is worth being wary. So, in the future, Marin intends to deploy 40 warships in Port Cork to fully patrol the west coast of France. Whenever a ship was found wishing to go west to the Americas, it would be ruthlessly sunk as soon as it was far from the French coastline. Then all the French on board were killed, leaving no one alive.

As long as they stay away from the French mainland and do not leave a living mouth, the French just want to make trouble, and Marin can also push two or five or six and throw the pot to the legendary "pirate......

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In order to build clippers in the new shipyard in Port Cork, Marin selected a group of capable shipbuilders from the local Emden shipyard and moved to the Port Cork shipyard to specialize in the manufacture of clippers.

Marin had already "designed" the drawings of the clippers and drew them. Including the bow must be hollow, it is also marked.

It should be pointed out that the clipper "designed" by Marin is very different from the original clipper. The original clipper ship mostly uses a full-loaded sail, that is, the crosssail is the main sail, and the longitudinal sail is supplemented. In this way, the clipper will not be unable to sail when it encounters headwinds.

Of course, it was an early clipper. In the 20th century, in the later period of the clipper ship, the upper edge of the boom sail was basically used.

Previously, when Marlin was refitting a 250-class armed merchant ship, he had people study the upper edge of the boom sail and stabilizer fins. Moreover, they have all been studied.

Now it's time to apply the technique of the upper edge of the girder sail and stabilizer fins to the clipper.

With these two technologies, Marin's clippers will surpass the Wyoming in the early 20th century and become a fast and stable clipper.

You know, the clippers, which reached their peak at the beginning of the 20th century, were born at an inopportune time. Although they are very fast, for example, the 6-masted clipper "Wyoming" with a displacement of up to 9,100 tons can reach speeds of up to 16 knots downwind and more than 10 knots upwind, which is very fast. However, because the hull was too "thin" and the heavy use of shoukers, the hull was subjected to strong lateral winds.

Normally, it's okay, but once it encounters a storm, it is easy to roll over on its side. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were several shipwrecks in which large schooners capsized. At the same time, due to the steady progress of steam engine and diesel engine power, clippers withdrew from the stage of history.

But in reality, anyone familiar with the history of navigation knows that clippers are unlucky. Because, after the clipper withdrew from the stage of history, an artifact to make up for the shortcomings of the clipper was born, that is, the stabilizer fin......

The concept of the stabilizer fin was proposed in 1889 and was patented. However, it was not until 1923 that Shintaro Motora of Japan designed the first physical set of stabilizer fins and applied them to ships. Later, in 1935, the British also applied stabilizer fins to ships. Since then, stabilizer fins have been widely used.

In later generations, almost all ships with relatively fast speeds were equipped with stabilizer fins. Because, the length and width ratio of later warships is much more exaggerated than that of flying clippers.

The 6:1 aspect ratio of the clipper is already very "thin". However, the 052 destroyer of his later generations is 142.7 meters long and 15 meters wide, and the length-to-width ratio is almost 10 to 1, which is very exaggerated.

Of course, the destroyers of later generations had several pairs of stabilizer fins. At the same time, it is also mechanically powered, and there is no dangerous sail, which is not easy to roll over.

As for the clippers that the North Sea Kingdom intended to build, Marin prepared three pairs of very primitive stabilizer fins, and they were manually controlled. Although it is backward than the stabilizer fins of later generations, it greatly increases the safety factor of the clipper boat.

The clipper boat, without a stabilizer fin, is almost "staggering" on the sea. The presence of stabilizer fins can make the high-speed clipper ship much more stable, greatly reducing the probability of capsizing.

Moreover, as a means of transport for the North Sea to deliver news and transport precious materials, Marin also plans to install four 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engines in the stern of some clippers. In the event of a storm, the clipper lowers its sails and is powered by diesel engines to survive the storm. Wait until the storm has passed, and then use the sails again. In this way, the safety of the clipper boat is further improved.

Of course, only the transmission of important military information, as well as the small number of clippers under the command of Marin to transport precious materials, are qualified to be equipped with diesel engines. After all, there are not many diesel engines in Marin's hands now, and there is a lack of mechanical ones that can manage and maintain diesel engines.

Therefore, only flying clippers that transmit emergency military information and transport precious supplies can be equipped with diesel engines, and equipped with several mechanics who are responsible for managing and repairing diesel engines.

With the use of upper edge truss sails, stabilizer fins, and spare diesel engine power equipment, Marin's clipper can be claimed to be the "most advanced" clipper in history. This is compared to the clippers of the original historical clipper era, not the ships of this era. Because, the level of ships in this era is too backward. Compared to them, Marin's new clippers won, even if they win, they won't be able to win. Only when compared to the authentic clippers of the 19th and early 20th centuries can they be evaluated as "the most advanced in history......

Because the average speed can be three times faster, this means that in the future, whether it is to transmit military information or transport precious goods from Daming, the speed will be three times that of the original. It originally took two years to go back and forth, but it only took more than half a year to get it done. Moreover, because of the use of "the most advanced technology in history", its safety is much higher than that of the original historical clippers.

And with the greatly reduced travel time, Marin's ability to control the American colonies can also be greatly enhanced. In the past, it took more than four months for ships to travel between North America and mainland China, but now, more than a month is enough to run a round trip......