This is also the truth, in history, the Americans and the Japanese took advantage of the First World War to make a lot of war money, and the shipping is naturally the same, and there was even a Japanese sailor who bought a ship with a friend after resigning, and opened a shipping company directly after the war, during this time, Japan's maritime transportation profit margin was as high as more than 150%! Therefore, if maritime transportation can continue in the name of a neutral country, it will naturally be very profitable. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In addition, it can also provide some assistance to German submarines and attack ships outside the country, such as providing fuel, food, medicine, etc.

"So are you going to do freight or passenger?" Princess Mary thought for a moment and asked.

"Naturally, we have to do freight, and the cost of passenger transportation is too high. Even if you do passenger transportation, you will definitely not do fast cruises. The prince said. When there was a time when high-speed cruise ships were as a symbol of national strength as battleships, you see, in 1897, the Germans built the Kaiser Wilhelm with a displacement of up to 14,000 tons and a speed of 22.5 knots. And in that year set a record for the fastest ship to and from the Atlantic.

Behind the cruise scenery is a huge amount of expenses, the speed of the ship and the consumption of fuel is not proportional, take the famous cruiser Emden in history as an example, this normal displacement of more than 3600 tons, full load displacement of more than 4000 tons of light cruiser if sailing at an economic speed of 12 knots, only need to consume 2 tons of coal per hour, and if at a speed of 23 knots, then the hourly coal consumption is as high as 15.7 tons! Almost 8 times faster than the economy!

If you convert it to the consumption of the same range, that's 4 times! Not to mention that the later blue ribbons could travel back and forth between the Atlantic at speeds of 24 or even 26 knots, not to mention the construction costs and maintenance costs, the fuel consumption alone was very amazing.

Some people may say, that can sail slowly, so now the problem arises again, high-end cruise ships are for high-end customers, what people need is time, if you sail at sea twice the time, then how to calculate the price? Moreover, fuel is saved, but the cost of food, accommodation and service personnel on the ship has increased for thousands of people, so it is a very risky thing to get a high-speed cruise. Historically, the Blue Ribbons have also been in trouble for financial reasons. Among them were the Emperor and Bismarck, which were compensated to the British after the end of World War I.

"Then you need to ask your Italian designer to design a nice ship for us." Princess Mary pursed her lips and said with a slight displeasure. Women, in addition to shopping, all kinds of clothing, and those shiny and golden things, will also like things such as sports cars, and as a princess of a country, it is understand......able that she likes luxury cruises.

"Well, I've had some disagreements with Count Vittorio Kuniberti lately for some well-known reasons, but if there's a suitable ocean carrier, I've got one!" The prince said.

From the current point of view, the ship thing, as long as it can be loaded, the high-tech and high-investment fast cruise prince does not plan to get it, and now there are no high-end ships such as natural gas ships, mixed passenger and cargo ships, and container ships, so the most real ships in this plane are such as free wheels, which are easy to produce in large quantities and can be loaded with super energy!

Of course, Germany in this plane cannot be compared with the United States in World War 2 in history, not to mention that it takes less than 5 days to assemble a ship, and a 14,000-ton cargo ship can be completed in 300 days. However, some of these methods and ideas can still be used for reference.

The first point is product modularization and standardized production! The principle of standardizing the various parts of a ship as much as possible, and dispersing them in as many factories as possible, is similar to that of an assembly line, but it is only a matter of making things bigger, and the prince has already done experimental work in this regard, and the prototype of the Seawolf raider is actually a kind of civilian ship that is labeled and produced.

Second, with the right tonnage and various accessories, it makes sense to choose a displacement of 14,000 tons for the free wheel, because if the tonnage is too small, then the ship's sea trials and economy will be very poor. After all, everything is about a scale effect. And if it is too large, then the difficulty and cost of construction are very problematic. So at the beginning, the size of the cargo ship chosen by the prince was between 5,000 tons and 7,000 tons, and now, since he is going to engage in ocean-going ships, it is natural to increase the tonnage to about 10,000 tons. The length of the ship is more than 100 meters, the width is 20 meters, and the draft is about 7.5 meters. Enough to fit most of the world's ports.

As for the so-called accessories, they are designed to cope with the diversity of cargo loaded on ships. The structure of the freewheel, built during the war, was very simple, with a total of eight compartments, the bow compartment was loaded with ballast water and anchor chambers. The fourth compartment in the middle of the hull is the power compartment. The ship has very low power, using an old-fashioned steam engine with an output of several thousand horsepower and a maximum speed of 11 knots. Then the remaining 6 are all warehouses, and this kind of warehouse has only two floors, the upper layer generally puts various items, and the lower layer generally puts water, fuel, and so on.

In wartime, these steamers transported stout and leather cargo such as airplanes, cannons, cans and ammunition, so the simple result could have been improvised, but in peacetime, it was inevitable to transport some perishable food crops or other fragile items, so that the open storage needed to be improved, and in order to accommodate some fragile goods, it was necessary to set up multiple decks.

The prince's approach was to produce this simple steamer as well as some other accessories, so that they could be improved in the port and used to accommodate the transportation of a wide range of goods. Originally, the prince wanted to see if he could get a standardized container for later generations.

But look at the current situation, cars are not popular, how to transport those large containers unloaded at the port? Pulled by a horse-drawn carriage? Obviously not! So, the prince decided to start getting smaller, standardized boxes that could be towed by horse-drawn carts and that could be accepted by today's unloading equipment such as cranes.

In terms of power selection, the prince finally chose the kerosene mixed boiler, which is due to two reasons, the first reason is that the cost of the kerosene mixed boiler to achieve the same power is less than that of a simple coal boiler. The second reason is that the cost of kerosene mixed combustion boiler is relatively low, and the combustion of the best coal is about half of that of heavy oil under the same quality. And the coal needs to be cleaned of coal ash. Labor costs will be relatively high. Secondly, these ships are going to run international routes, and if they run American routes, there will naturally be no shortage of heavy oil, after all, the United States is now the largest oil producer. And if there is no oil, coal can make do!

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