"Gentlemen, I have brought with me the warship plan I have designed."

As Bran, the chief designer of the Venice Navy Yard, spoke, the hall immediately fell silent, and everyone, including Admiral Golek, stared at this outstanding warship designer. Because Bran has this prestige and ability to show his work, it is definitely the only choice for the Navy.

Bran opened his blueprint, hung it up, and said. "This is my new type of warship for the Navy, which is designed to have a displacement of tons. Full load is tons. The ship has a total length of 121.3 meters, a width of 22.9 meters, and a maximum draft of 9 meters. ”

Following Bran's words, the Navy personnel followed his finger in the direction.

"The ship is a high-freeboard battleship with a compact chimney, and the two chimneys are located behind the command station in a side-by-side mode. This type of ship has a sloping armored deck, which provides additional protection for the new ship.

And on the armor, I used nickel-chromium steel armor, the broadside main armor belt was about 79 meters long and 2.95 meters high, of which it extended 1.55 meters below the waterline, and the main armor belt in the middle of the broadside was 410 mm thick at its thickest point, and then decreased forward and backward at 381 mm and 346 mm respectively, and the inside was a teak support layer 102-203 mm thick. The upper part of the broadside armor is 127 mm thick (49 m long x 2 m high), and the total height of the gunside armor is about 4.95 m (1.6 m below the waterline and 3.35 m above the waterline). ”

Hearing this, the admirals, including Admiral Golek, couldn't help but nod. Of course, except for the Andoshar shipyard and his party, who had not yet introduced the plan, the faces of the people in the other shipyards became unsightly. Because as soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he knows if there is one. Although Designer Bran has not finished speaking, many people can feel that this is definitely a good battleship.

But for Bran, he hadn't finished speaking, but he continued to introduce.

"In terms of power, I use two three-cylinder vertical three-expansion steam engines with a four-shaft twin rudder design. Under normal ventilation conditions, the power can reach the indicated horsepower, and when the ventilation is under strong pressure, it can allow the battleship to reach a speed of 18.1 knots per hour in order to indicate the horsepower.

The design coal reserve capacity is 1000 tons, the normal 1200 tons, and the maximum loading capacity is 1560 tons. The range is 2980 nautical miles at 14 knots, 3386 nautical miles at 13 knots, and 4920 nautical miles at 10 knots. It was enough for the ship to sail directly from the East African colonies to the Phuong Lan colony. ”

After talking about power and range, he introduced the most important force of the battleship.

"The battleship uses four 356-mm guns, two in the front and two in the rear, the main gun weighs 72 tons, and uses a forward inclined turret. The turret is constructed with hydraulic rotary movement and is capable of firing at enemies at angles of 280 angles. In addition, on the second-stage main gun, I used a 152-mm second-stage main gun, and arranged three twin gun emplacements on both sides of the island, bringing the number of second-stage guns to 12. In addition, considering the role of the new torpedoes, I placed two triple 406 mm torpedo tubes in the middle of the ship, which are capable of firing six black-headed torpedoes at once. ”

After Bran finished talking about the data of his battleship, Admiral Golek, who was the Minister of the Admiralty, couldn't help but applaud. Because this is much more powerful than the previous Italian battleship, the new battleship given by the Bran designer. Although it slightly exceeded the standard by more than 100 tons, this is a harmless thing, compared to the excellent performance of the battleship, this tonnage can be nothing.

And everyone except the Lord of the Admiralty applauded, because everyone had to admit that it was a very brilliant design.

Of course, as the representative of the Andosal shipyard, old rival Benedetto Brin can't help but give a thumbs up, because this is indeed a remarkable design. If you design it yourself, you can't really be better than it.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at the young Vittorio next to him, who was young and had such a good talent, he was simply a natural designer born for the navy.

And here, Admiral Golek, who is the Minister of the Navy, sighed. "The proposal that designer Bran came up with is very attractive, it is simply a perfect masterpiece, it is very remarkable."

The compliment from the Admiral made the head of the Venetian Navy Yard smile, because the meaning of the Admiral's words was that if the final Andosal Shipyard could not come up with a better plan, then the Admiral would definitely choose Bran's plan.

As for the Endochar shipyard, the expression on the face of the leader of the team became very unnatural after the admiral finished speaking, because he also understood the meaning of the admiral's words, and now he could only put his hope on Lord Brin.

Facing the look of pleading from the person in charge, Brin patted him on the shoulder with his hand to reassure him.

Later, the Navy reported to the Andosal shipyard, and this time Brin himself took the field, ready to take on the old rival's new ships.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the new warship I brought."

As Brin opened his plan drawings, it immediately caused an uproar in the venue, because this battleship drawing was somewhat similar to the previous Bran designer, of course, it was not who stole whose idea, both of them were respected people in Italy, and it was impossible to do such a tasteless thing. It's such a coincidence, it's surprising.

Faced with the situation in the venue, Brin was mentally prepared. Because when Bran opened his blueprints, he knew it would be like this, and the two were too similar. Of course, there are differences, because he did not use two chimneys in parallel, but arranged them compactly vertically.

However, the current people are still very qualified, and they quickly calmed down and quieted down. After the venue was quiet, Brin began to explain his plan.

"This is a new warship designed for the Navy by our Andosal shipyard, which is designed to have a displacement of tons. Full load is tons. The ship has a total length of 124.3 meters, a width of 22.1 meters, and a maximum draft of 8.9 meters. The ship is a high-freeboard battleship with a compact chimney, and the two chimneys are located behind the command platform in a vertical mode. ”

"In terms of armor, I also used nickel-chromium steel armor, and the main armor belt on the side was about 81 meters long and 2.85 meters high, with 1.5 meters below the waterline. The main armor belt in the middle of the side reached 400 mm thick at its thickest point, and then decreased forward and backward by 356 mm and 331 mm, respectively. The lining is a steel support layer 57-105 mm thick. The upper part of the broadside armor is 127 mm thick (51 m long x 2.1 m high), and the total height of the gunside armor is about 4.95 m (1.5 m below the waterline and 3.45 m above the waterline).

In addition, in terms of power, I use two 4-cylinder vertical three-expansion steam engines, 3 shafts and 4 oars. The maximum output horsepower is horsepower and the maximum speed is 19.1 knots. The design coal reserve capacity is 1050 tons, the normal 1300 tons, and the maximum loading capacity is 1600 tons. The cruising range is 2850 nautical miles at 15 knots, 3470 nautical miles at 13 knots, and 5250 nautical miles at 10 knots. ”

Then the Brin designers said the layout of the artillery, in fact, there is nothing to dispute in this regard, the layout of the first two and the last two starts from the Venetian level. However, Brin's plan allowed the new ship to reduce a group of 152 mm secondary guns and add eight 57 mm secondary guns for small warships.

When Brin finished, there was silence. It's not that they were dissatisfied with the Brin designers, but the design was so amazing, the battleship ran out of the speed of a cruiser, how not to surprise them!

Don't underestimate the speed that is only one section higher, but how much effort it takes, and then many designers can't help but whisper, really worthy of being the designer of an armored cruiser.

And the most entangled among them is Admiral Golek, these two plans stumped him, he wanted both, but think about it, but in practice, it is simply impossible, the Navy does not have so much money.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but speak. "Except for the people from the Dockyard of Andosal and the Venetian Shipyard to stay, the others can go out first."

With His Excellency Admiral's words, the others could only leave with disappointed expressions, knowing that this time the bid was a failure, and they could only wait for the two shipyards to decide the winner.

I'm in a good mood