For the world in the 17th century, the Sea Blue with a full load displacement of more than 10,000 tons was definitely a giant ship, and even at the end of the 19th century, the largest warship of the British Royal Navy Dreadnought Battleship, had a displacement of only 18,110 tons (standard) to 21,850 tons full load.

Therefore, the ships of the era of the Blue Sea had almost no opponents in the 17th century, and even if they encountered the formation of one of the opponent's fleets, as long as the ammunition compartment of the Sea Blue was sufficient, it could almost annihilate the opponent's entire fleet.

Of course, all of this must be premised on the premise that all the equipment of the Sea Blue is operating in good condition in order to achieve this estimated strategic condition.

With the frequent foreign trade, the maintenance and maintenance of the Sea Blue has also become a concern of many people, but no matter how to maintain and maintain, some of the equipment manufactured by modern technology on the ship is broken, not the existing level of science and technology can be repaired, so the focus on the Sea Blue is no longer on maintenance, but back to the original modification problem.

If Huang Lao hadn't found the oil nan tree and filtered it out and added it to the Sea Blue to replace the depleted diesel, it would have run aground on the shore and become a sightseeing cruise ship, instead of the Australian warship that has now shocked the waters of Southeast Asia.

However, with the two outings of the Sea Blue, the originally small oil nan forest has been unable to collect oil to supply the Sea Blue, and under the existing circumstances, it can only be modified by the Sea Blue.

The modification of the Sea Blue is mainly concentrated in two areas, one is the power area and the weapons area, of which the former is the most difficult, the latter only needs to develop the relevant guns and fix them on the deck, and the best data is basically done, while the former almost has to replace the power system on the existing Sea Blue.

This is difficult for Australia, which is extremely short of shipbuilders, and the entire Manchester City base as long as the people who know about the ship are involved in the major project of the conversion of the Sea Blue, among which the opinions of You Nanzhe and Lin Youde are to convert the Sea Blue into steam power.

After all, the steam engine has been manufactured, and it is not difficult to create a steam engine with greater horsepower according to the existing mature manufacturing steam engine model, and Wang Tiehammer's opinion is relatively conservative, hoping that the Hailan will continue to use the internal combustion engine power unit, but this is only his personal opinion, and he does not directly ask the people of the Ministry of Industry to complete it, and he also knows the difficulty of the existing scientific and technological ability to create an internal combustion engine.

Even if the internal combustion engine is manufactured, the fuel problem is also a difficulty, so far everyone has not found an oil field, and the nearest oil field is dozens of kilometers away, not to mention the difficulty of exploitation is not cost-effective.

It's a different story if coal is used, the coal field has been found and is about to enter the mining stage, when the energy supply for cooking or steelmaking in the entire Manchester City base will gradually change from wood to coal, which is a big step forward.

The shipyard dock at the Manchester City base, the tall and majestic body of the Sea Blue has been docked for two whole weeks without turmoil, and in the past two weeks, the people who have entered the Sea Blue have changed batch after batch, including the military industry group, the Navy Department and the Ministry of Industry, and the reason why everyone went up is nothing more than to provide ideas for the transformation of the Sea Blue.

The existing main cabin of the Sea Blue has three percent, the lowest floor is the cargo compartment, and the second and third floors are the passenger cabins, although the sub-mother cannon is on the first transformation fashion, but the other cabins are basically unchanged, so now there is almost no change except for the sub-mother cannon fixed on the front and rear left and right on the Sea Blue.

"I think the number of rooms on the second floor can be reduced to two-thirds, and all the other areas are cut off with a cutter to make other parts for remodeling, and the cabins on the third floor will be completely dismantled, and in addition to installing two 105mm cannons, there must also be an ammunition warehouse."

As the most authoritative shipbuilding experience in the base, You Nanzhe pressed on the holographic drawing of the Sea Blue with one hand, and held a pencil in the other hand to draw on the above areas.

This transformation drawing cannot be said to be completely from the hand of You Nanzhe, who compiled it with reference to the data of the British Dreadnought-class battleships at the end of the 19th century and his own ideas.

"Lao You, the rooms in your cabin have been dismantled, where do my soldiers live, and there is no leisure area, this does not meet the standards of modern naval warships." After listening patiently to the suggestions for transformation, Wang Tie said what he thought was inadequate.

"This, I was negligent, the soldier's housing can be renovated according to this drawing, but the recreation area is not easy to get." You Nanzhe explained with a somewhat embarrassed smile, after all, this drawing refers to too many dreadnought-level designs.

According to the opinions of You Nanzhe and several warship enthusiasts and several workers in the shipyard at present, the diesel power plant at the bottom of the Sea Blue will be dismantled and installed with six 60-horsepower steam engines as power units.

The purpose of this is not only to ensure that the Sea Blue will not cause other problems due to the failure of the steam engine, but also to ensure that the Sea Blue will not be harmed if there is a real problem, after all, the current Sea Blue can still sail as long as it is filled with biodiesel, once the power plant is removed, it is not necessarily in the installation.

The conservative suggestion was well received by everyone, and everyone didn't care about the damage to the mermaid, because the ten Western clippers bought from the Dutch could be delivered in February next year, and once the sixty-horsepower steam engine was installed, the speed of the mermaid would be no problem, and the ten would definitely be transformed.

Therefore, the Mermaid's experiment should not be considered just for the existence of the Sea Blue and ten other Western ships. "Captain Wang, if you really want a recreation area, I think it can only be placed on the third floor, and there are only six cannons installed on the third floor, and the space area can be relatively well deployed, but the recreation area will not be very large, if it is too big, it will inevitably cause a reduction in the ammunition in the ammunition warehouse."

"Okay, as you said, that's pretty much what I'm suggesting, and how long it will take if you're going to completely renovate it."

"It will take two months at the earliest, and it is conservatively estimated that it will be completed in mid-April," You Nanzhe said in 1510, and did not hide anything, after all, the military industry is not a joke.

Commitment to the military in any era is like making a military order, so the entire shipyard is under pressure for some of the second-pole engineers and specialists, but the pride at the thought of steamships that have been completely remodeled by their own hands suddenly overwhelms the pressure.