Chapter 383: Dragon-class dreadnought battleship

It is not an exaggeration to say that the dreadnought-class all-steel battleship is a watershed for battleships, and the classification of dreadnoughts in history comes from the all-steel battleship HMS Dreadnought that the British Navy began to build in 1906. The characteristics of the dreadnought can be summarized as the elimination of the secondary main guns used for attack on the previous battleships, the main guns of the same caliber unified model, the retention of only the small-caliber secondary guns used to defend against light warships, and the use of high-power steam turbines as power.

In history, the appearance of the dreadnought battleship made the all-steel battleships in service in the navies of various countries at that time obsolete, and various countries began to build this kind of dreadnought with the concept of "all-heavy artillery" to replace the former dreadnought, triggering a new round of competition in the naval armaments of various naval powers.

This kind of all-steel battleship with excellent www.uuxs.cc is the trend of the future, but Lin Daxin is very dissatisfied with the fact that his shipyard is ready to be built in nearly 3 years, although he knows that the level of his shipyard is far worse than that of the British and Germans, but in history, the British Intrepid laid the keel at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on October 2, 1905, and was launched on February 10, 1906. Sea trials began on October 1 of the same year, and the construction progress was unexpectedly fast, and his own battleship with full heavy artillery would take nearly 3 years, which Lin Daxin could not bear.

So Lin Daxin put Wei Han, the director of the shipbuilding department, to the office of the Shenyang City Governor's Palace, and finally Lin Daxin still sent Wei Han out of the office in frustration, it seems that the shipyard is ready to use nearly 3 years to complete 6 all-steel battleships with heavy guns, and it can't complain about the shipyard, after all, in just a few years, it is relying on the machine and equipment tossed from the future time and space, and the industry established, although it is more prominent in some aspects, and even the technical level is ahead of European and American countries, However, there is still a certain gap in the overall industrial strength compared with the British in this period, just talking about the 45 times the caliber of 305 mm naval guns that the all-steel battleships with all-heavy guns are ready to be equipped with, and the arsenal is still under development, such as the mechanical factory that produces steam engines and boilers on warships and the steel factory that produces warship armor, the production capacity is insufficient, which is the reason for the slow construction speed of the shipyard.

Another important factor was the lack of skilled workers at the shipyard itself, which was also the reason for the slow pace of building all-steel battleships with such heavy guns.

Of course, Lin Daxin asked the shipyard to build 6 of these cross-era battleships at one time, as well as other warships, which is also the reason for the longer construction time, Wei Han said that if only 1 experimental battleship is built, because there are design drawings, it may only take 1 and a half years, but to build 6 at the same time, that is, the shipyard will work overtime, and it will take 2 and a half years at the earliest, unless Lin Daxin solves the problem of the production capacity of machinery manufacturing plants and steel plants, as well as the lack of skilled workers in shipyards, Of course, it is also necessary to let the arsenal speed up the development of a naval gun with a maximum range of 30,000 meters, 45 times the caliber and 305 mm.

After sending Wei Han away, Lin Daxin thought about it in his office, and asked the adjutant of the Governor's Mansion to find the heads of the arsenal, the steel plant and the machinery manufacturing plant in his office, and after listening to the opinions of several responsible persons, Lin Daxin knew that the problems that plagued the production capacity of the machinery manufacturing plant were actually caused by the lack of technicians, like the production equipment of the machinery manufacturing plant, many of which were brought by Lin Daxin from modern time and space, and the production capacity added up to absolute horror, but because of the lack of mechanics in the machinery manufacturing plant, Now the production capacity of the machinery manufacturing plant can only reach a little more than 30 percent, although the machinery manufacturing has been working hard to train their own skilled workers, but with the original foundation of the Qing Dynasty, the machinery manufacturing plant can have the current production capacity has been very difficult.

It seems that it is necessary to continue to train a large number of technicians in order to solve the problem of lack of factory technicians in many northeastern provinces such as shipyards and machinery manufacturing plants, and now there is no special technical school in the four northeastern provinces, and each factory is training its own skilled workers, it seems that the establishment of a large technical school is imminent, so Lin Daxin wrote down the four big characters of the technical school on his work notes, and also drew a circle to circle the four big characters, this matter must be implemented immediately.

Lian Hongkai, the person in charge of the arsenal, told Lin Daxin that the construction of 45 times the caliber of 305 mm naval guns had begun, and the construction of warships in the shipyard would not be delayed, and Li Shaogang, the person in charge of the iron and steel plant, told Lin Daxin that the expansion of the fourth phase of the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant was about to be completed, so that the problem of the armor production capacity of warships had been basically solved, which was good news, but even Hongkai and Li Shaogang also complained to Lin Daxin about the lack of scientific research personnel.

To solve the shortage of scientific researchers, it is necessary to establish more universities, so Lin Daxin wrote down the three big words of building a university in his work notes.

In any case, Lin Daxin's idea of building 6 all-heavy artillery all-steel battleships at the same time has not wavered, and he is even ready to build a few more together, after all, the 4 large shipyards have 10 docks of more than 20,000 tons, but the other 4 docks are building 4 large cargo ships with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons, which are large supply ships built for the Northeast Navy, Lin Daxin had to give up the idea of building 10 ships together, but wait for the construction of 4 large cargo ships with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons. These four dockyards will also be built with all-heavy artillery and all-steel battleships.

The all-heavy artillery all-steel battleship that Lin Daxin was going to build adopted the form of the main gun turret being arranged along the longitudinal central axis of the hull, referring to the Neptune star in British history, and built his own dragon-class dreadnought battleship.

The standard displacement of the Dragon-class dreadnought battleship is 20,450 tons, the full load displacement is 22,100 tons, the entire warship is 168.8 meters long, 26.8 meters wide, and the draft is 8.5 meters, and the power part is equipped with 18 three-rise steam boilers, and the maximum output of 4 new steam engines can reach 23,500 horsepower, making the maximum speed of the Dragon-class dreadnought battleship reach 21 knots.

Dragon-class dreadnought battleships have waterline armor from 240 mm to 330 mm, deck armor from 35 mm to 80 mm, main gun turret armor from 360 mm, cabin bulkhead armor from 180 mm to 260 mm, and conning tower armor from 360 mm. It was equipped with 5 twin 45-caliber 305 mm guns, 20 105 mm naval guns, 3 533 mm torpedo tubes, and required a crew of 780 people.

Historically, the five twin main gun turrets of the British dreadnought-class dreadnought-class battleships, one each at the bow and one at the stern, and one behind the hull amidships, were arranged on the center line of the hull, and between the two boiler rooms, one on each side of the two sides were symmetrically arranged, so that the maximum firepower on the side of the dreadnought battleship was 8 main guns, but the 5 twin-mounted main gun turrets of the dragon-class dreadnought battleships were arranged on the central axis, and 10 main guns could fire at the same time when the guns were fired on the side side.

Lin Daxin believed that as soon as his 6 Dragon-class dreadnought battleships appeared in front of the world, they would definitely surprise all the naval powers, and at the same time be uncomfortable, after all, as soon as the Dragon-class dreadnought battleships came out, all the previous all-steel battleships were outdated.

However, Lin Daxin just knew that the city-class all-steel battleships would be outdated, so he still let the shipyard build 8 at the same time again, anyway, there are still 8 15,000-ton docks idle, Lin Daxin is rich and capricious, and the city-class all-steel battleships will still be very useful for a long time in the future. In addition, Lin Daxin asked the shipyard to build 8 large fast armored cruisers of the throttle class at one time to continue the activities of Lin Daxin's violent warships.

Originally, there were more than 1,800 new-style primary and secondary schools in the four northeastern provinces, but there was only one university, that is, Northeastern University in Shenyang City.

invested so much money at once, and it was Lin Daxin who asked for compulsory education in primary and secondary schools, otherwise it would be impossible to use so much money.

Wang Yan was startled when he heard it and said: "Daxin, if it is really according to your plan, then we have to spend the old nose money, and this is not a one-time investment, it requires a huge amount of money every year, and the 1 billion yuan you give will not take a few years, and it may take 2 to 3 billion yuan every year in the future, or even more, Daxin, you have to think about it." ”

Lin Daxin waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, cousin, I can still take out this money, although we already have a certain industrial base, but compared with Britain and Germany, there is still a big gap in overall strength, these gaps need us to have more skilled workers, more scientific researchers to make up for it, let's just say that I am going to build a new battleship this time, if the British build it, the time will be several times faster than ours, this situation is not that we can't compare with the British in hardware, but in software, We can't keep up, so this time the big investment in education is imperative! ”

Wang Yan thought about it for a while and nodded: "Okay, I'll arrange it right away, but this time we need to build more primary and secondary schools, as well as technical schools, train more teachers, and get a few universities, it's really not a small project!" ”

Lin Daxin said: "Teachers in technical schools can contact various factories and let them send skilled old workers to make cameos, anyway, the students trained by technical schools must be assigned to various factories." ”R1152