Time: July 13, 1895

Location: Shencheng, Shencheng Shipyard

Weather: Sunny and windy

Today is an important day, the land and sea around the Shencheng Shipyard are firmly blocked by the army, which shows that there are big people visiting the Shencheng Shipyard, the army is under martial law around the Shencheng Shipyard, no one is allowed to approach the Shencheng Shipyard, and the spies of foreign forces are also puzzled. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Could it be that the Chinese Empire has launched a new warship again?

In this regard, the spies of foreign forces disdained it, and soon turned around and left, and no longer monitored the Shencheng shipyard, because in the hearts of these spies, the Chinese Empire was founded less than ten years ago, and the shipbuilding industry of the Manchu Dynasty, the predecessor of the Chinese Empire, was very backward.

The shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire is not good, so how can the Chinese Empire build powerful warships, so the spies do not pay much attention to the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire and the development of the navy, and think that the shipbuilding industry and navy of the Chinese Empire will not be able to catch up with the Western countries in the next few decades.

Who knows that the shipbuilding industry and navy of the Chinese Empire are rapidly catching up with the Western countries, and it may not be long before the navy of the Chinese Empire can confront some weak Western countries even if it does not use submarines.

Regardless of the opinions of foreign spies, the large-scale martial law in the area near the Shencheng Shipyard today is indeed due to the presence of an important person at the Shencheng Shipyard, and this person is Yan Xueyi, the supreme ruler of the Chinese Empire.

Not only Yan Xueyi came, the Chinese Empire. The top brass of the military are here, because today the main structure of the hull of the first 10,000-ton warship of the Chinese Empire is completed and will be officially launched.

In the Chinese Empire, a 10,000-ton battleship can be called a battleship, and the Chinese Empire will also have a battleship, the Empire. Who can sit still in the high-ranking members of the military, and hurriedly followed Yan Xueyi to watch the battleship launch.

In the distance of the dock where the 10,000-ton giant ship was built in the Shencheng Shipyard, Yan Xueyi and his party observed the busy workers, who were making final preparations before the 10,000-ton giant ship was launched.

This 10,000-ton giant ship is so tall, 119.3 meters long, 21.5 meters wide, completely a behemoth-like existence, standing under it, people are like a small ant, this 10,000-ton giant ship brings boundless shock to everyone, but the battleship is only completed by the main structure of the hull, and the appearance of the whole battleship looks a little rough, a little ruinous atmosphere.

The time for the launch of the battleship was approaching, and the irrelevant personnel quickly evacuated the scene, and the launching ceremony of the battleship was presided over by Meng Fanxuan, director of the Shencheng Shipyard.

Rumble!

Not long after, an earth-shattering noise came from the Shencheng Shipyard, and the battleship was launched, and this huge sound was the sound of the battleship falling into the water.

Everyone present could clearly see that this huge battleship smashed into the water, and the hull of the ship tilted to a certain extent, and then slowly returned to normal, which means that the battleship was successfully launched.

There were strong cheers from people in Shencheng Shipyard, they were really cheering for the successful launch of the battleship, no one in Shencheng Shipyard was unhappy, after all, this time the 10,000-ton giant ship was a huge challenge for Shencheng Shipyard, the largest warship tonnage built by Shencheng Shipyard before did not exceed 8500 tons, and now the construction of 10,000-ton giant ships, in the process of building 10,000-ton giant ships, encountered layers of difficulties, fortunately, everything has passed, and the successful launch of the battleship means that the battleship is one step closer to the time of service.

The launching of the battleship is only a part of the manufacturing process of the battleship, and the launching only means that the main structure of the hull is completed, and then the dock outfitting is carried out, which is to load the relatively fragile parts such as pipes and valve weapon systems on the ship, which is also relatively complicated, and it is the most chaotic and accident-prone process in the construction of the battleship.

If this 10,000-ton giant ship that has just been successfully launched by the Shencheng Shipyard wants to officially enter the service of the Navy, I am afraid it will take more than half a year before it can be officially put into service, and the giant ship that is officially put into service will not be the rough feeling that it gives people when it is launched today, but there is an indescribable beauty of steel, and the steel battleship has its own charm.

Although this battleship that has just been launched has not been completely completed, its name has been decided, Yan Xueyi named it "Qin Shi Huang" battleship, "Qin Shi Huang" battleship belongs to the empire's first-class battleships, can also be called Qin Dynasty class battleships, the empire's battleships will be ordered with the name of the emperor in the history of the Chinese nation.

A total of two Qin-class battleships will be built, and the Shencheng Shipyard will soon start construction of a second Qin-class battleship, which will be named "Qin II".

After all, the Qin Dynasty-class battleships are the first battleships of the Chinese Empire, and the technology is still somewhat immature, and all Qin-class battleships will only be built two, and when the "Qin Shi Huang" and "Qin II" officially enter the naval service, they will become the flagships of the two fleets of the Imperial Navy.

The imminent appearance of the battleships of the Chinese Empire represents a further increase in the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which is rapidly catching up with the naval strength of Western countries, but there is still a big gap between the navies of the Chinese Empire and Western countries.

Take Britain as an example, on September 30, 1889, Britain began to build the world's first all-steel 10,000-ton battleship, on February 26, 1891, the battleship "Sovereign" was launched, and after its completion in May 1892, it was sent to the Channel Fleet in the United Kingdom, and has been the flagship of the Channel Fleet for the time since.

Battleship "Sovereign".

Standard displacement: 14150 tons

Overall length: 125 meters

Width: 22.9 meters

Draft: 8.84 meters, with a crew of 670-712 people.

Power: 8 single-head cylindrical boilers, two 3-cylinder vertical three-expansion steam engines, 9000 horsepower of the main engine, 3-shaft double rudder

Speed: 16.5 knots

Endurance: 4720 nm / 10 knots

Coal capacity: 1,100 tons

Weapon systems

4 guns of the 343 mm MkII.BL type

10 MkIV. 152.4 mm rapid-fire guns

12-16 57-mm and 47-mm rapid-fire guns

7 x 406 mm torpedo tubes

From these data, we can imagine the strength of the "Sovereign" battleship, the tonnage of the Qin Dynasty-class battleships completely built by the Chinese Empire is not as large as the tonnage of the British "Sovereign" battleships, but the firepower of the Qin-class battleships is stronger than that of the "Sovereign" battleships.

But don't forget that the battleship "Sovereign" has been in service in Xinghua for four years, and this year is the seventh year of Xinghua, and Britain has built more powerful battleships, while the first battleship of the Chinese Empire, "Qin Shi Huang", has not yet been built, and it is expected that it will take eight years for Xinghua to be officially put into service, and the Imperial Chinese Navy still needs time to catch up with the British Navy, just as the British Air Force also needs time to catch up with the Imperial Chinese Air Force.