[In the absence of welding, the construction of steel ships with riveting, do not understand the riveting, please Baidu]

"Huh! What is that? Island! I found the island! "A young lookout on the lookout of the Sea Explorer stared into the distance with a telescope, and he seemed to find the island through the telescope.

"Where? Where? ”

Hearing this, the other two lookouts on the lookout of the Tanhai used their binoculars to look in the direction pointed by the lookout who found the island, and soon the two of them also found a vague figure in the field of vision of the telescope, and this figure seemed to be the island.

Lin Zhen, the captain of the Tanhai Ship, was standing on the deck at this time, and when he heard the shouts on the lookout, Lin Zhen also quickly picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of the island.

However, when several lookouts spotted the island, things would not be fake, and Lin Zhen quickly gave the order and asked the flag bearer to pass on the message to the other two ships.

In less than half a pillar of incense, the three ships had completed the exchange of information, and the three ships had changed their direction and moved in the direction of the island.

When they first heard that the island was discovered, all the crew members of the fleet, including the three captains, were full of joy, and now they found the island in less than a day after going to sea, and they have not encountered any danger, as long as the island is about the same size, the fleet's first plan to explore the sea can be declared to be completed, and then as long as they can return to Wanghai Town safely, it will be a victory, and every crew member of the fleet can receive a large amount of money.

With hope, the fleet headed for the island, and some of the crew were already thinking about what they should do with the large bounty when they returned to Wanghai Town.

It's just that sometimes the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, as the fleet gets closer and closer to the island, the expression of Yun Yi, who is holding a telescope on the Discovery steamer at the head of the fleet, slowly calms down from the original joy, until he stares at the direction of the island expressionlessly.

The islands were so close that all the crews of the fleet could no longer be happy, and they did find islands, more than one, four or five, but they could no longer be called islands, and it was more appropriate to call them reefs or reefs, because the part of the sea exposed was so small that it was all rocks, and there was no grass, and a wave could swallow them up.

And what is the value of such an island?

The crew generally knows what the islands and reefs are, because there are many islands and reefs in the area not far from the shore in Wanghai Town, and the area of the islands and reefs is too small, and most of the islands and reefs are made of rocks, and this kind of islands and reefs have no function.

After determining the true face of the island, the fleet stopped sailing in the direction of the island, began to turn around, and returned to the previous course, if it was close to the direction of the island, the possibility of encountering the reef was very high, and if you were not careful, the ship would hit the reef, and then it would be dangerous.

Mistaking the reef for a large island is just a normal thing to do in the process of exploring the sea, and the more they encounter, the more they will become unfazed, and in the end, I am afraid that the crew will only smile brightly after they are sure that it is an island that is truly worth developing.

As the sky began to darken, the three ships of the flotilla dropped anchor and temporarily halted their journey.

The first time you explore this route, no one knows if this route is safe, and the ship travels at night and is more likely to hit the reef, so after dark, the fleet can only drop anchor and rest, and if the route is explored later, the night ship can also sail on this route.

This is not the first time that the crew has stayed on the sea, and the fleet has stayed overnight many times in the near sea before, and the crew originally thought that this night stay would be as safe as the previous nights, but God obviously will not let this small fleet have smooth sailing.

The wind was blowing, the wind was getting stronger, and the waves were crashing against the fleet, and some of the water had accumulated on the decks of the three ships, and then the water slowly flowed out through the small holes under the side of the ships.

The waves didn't have much effect on the fleet, and all three ships were steamships without sails, so you didn't need to do those things about collecting canvases, just be careful that the waves were too big and overturned the ships all at once.

The possibility of being overturned by the waves is also very small, and Yunyi pointed out the central problem when the "Tan" class was designed and built, and the "Tan" class ship can withstand larger waves.

Dark clouds that came from unknown times and places obscured the sky, and the moon and stars hanging in the sky were replaced by thick dark clouds.

Crackling!

A thick bolt of lightning accompanied by thunder lit up the entire sky.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

The next moment, bean-sized raindrops poured down.

Listening to the sound of the waves crashing against the ship's side outside the cabin, the sound of the heavy rain hitting the hull of the ship, and the rumbling thunder, Yun Yong knew that this night was not easy, it was the first bad weather the fleet had encountered, or the night when he couldn't see his fingers.

In the fleet's few appearances training, when has such bad weather been encountered, compared to the inshore sea, the real sea is unpredictable and moody.

Under the forces of nature, it was difficult to rely on manpower to stop, and the crews of the three ships could only hide in the cabins, quietly listening to the outside world in the violent shaking of the hull.

Some people prayed to the heavens in their hearts, that the ship would not be overturned by the waves, that they would be able to find suitable islands for development, and that they would be able to return safely.

Most people had difficulty sleeping in such a harsh environment, but a few of the crew members who were "heartless and lungless" actually fell asleep in such a harsh environment, and there was a thunderous snoring sound in the cabin.

Some crew members joked, saying that thunder was thundering outside, and XXX in the cabin was also thundering.

Although the joke was not very funny, the nervousness of the crew unconsciously dissipated a lot, and now the crew only hopes that such bad weather will pass soon.

The sea is full of thunderclouds and stormy waves, but the town of Wanghai, which is adjacent to the sea, is calm, and the bad weather on the sea has not affected the town at all, but many of the residents of Wanghai Town have as much trouble sleeping as the crew of the fleet, because they are the relatives of the crew, and they are worried about the safety of their loved ones.

Yun Yi, who stayed in the town mansion, fell asleep peacefully at the moment, not insomnia at all because the fleet explored the sea for the first time, forming a fleet to explore the sea is of great significance to Yun Yi, but Yun Yi will not be sad about this, even if this time fails, Yun Yi will continue to form a new fleet to continue to explore the sea, Yun Yi needs to find a way back for himself and his family, even if he takes countless lives for this.

Note 1: One stick of incense = five minutes