Chapter 818's Err alone of the British Navy
To be honest, the injuries of these warships have little impact on combat capabilities, but they cannot keep it all the time.
For example, the side deck is broken, so the hull of this part cannot be supported.
When the wooden warship turns or worships the waves, the hull will produce slight deformation, and the structure around the crack will be very structural stress. The hull structure near the damaged position will be quickly aging and scrapped.
Just like we usually tear the plastic packaging, if the outer packaging is complete, it will not be torn with a lot of energy. But if you cut a small mouth on the edge, you can easily tear it away from there.
Therefore, these warships are not serious, but they must return to Hong Kong for maintenance, otherwise the original small problems may become a large project that needs to be replaced by half a hull.
Lord Hu De can't help but think of the loss of the Mediterranean fleet in this operation-
One three -level and one fourth -class battleship was severely damaged.
One cruise ship and three frigates were sunk.
"Chuangchuang" is a proprietary term in naval battles, which means that in addition to the ship floating on the water, the ship is no longer different from waste. It is usually returned to Hong Kong for at least 4 months to complete the repair.
This loss is actually insufficient, but the more serious situation is -18 third -class battleships, 20 fourth -class battleships, and almost all cruise ships and frigates were suffered from minor injuries.
So many warships that need to be repaired are poured into the Port of Gibraltar at once.
The entire maintenance process has to last at least half a year -if it is not counted as the two ships that have been hit hard.
In other words, before that, the Mediterranean fleet will be available for more than a dozen third -class battleships!
Not to mention the Turin Fleet, even the Spanish fleet can bully them ...
Lord Hu De only felt extremely aggrieved.
Even at the seven -year war, when he fought with the French fleet with superior troops in the Atlantic Ocean, he was not so aggrieved.
He looked out of the porthole. After a long time, he finally sighed, returned to the table, and started writing a report to the Navy's Ministry, applying for the Mediterranean Fleet and returned to Pulimus to repair.
There are more shipyards and craftsmen there to compress the maintenance time to less than 3 months.
When he finished writing the last word and was about to sign his name, he heard a dull loud noise from behind the fleet.
He was experienced and determined that it was not the sound of the cannon, and immediately frowned and rushed towards the command cabin.
Before Lord Hu De had passed through the corridor between the second -layer deck, his staff hurriedly came to face, sweating: "General, the" Smoke Smoke "just happened!"
Hu De's brain was immediately "hum".
The so -called explosion refers to the explosion caused by the ammunition stored in the cabin by the enemy's artillery fire. Because the explosion point is inside the hull, it usually causes extremely serious damage.
The "Smoke" is a fourth -class battleship, which was completed in February last year. After the explosion occurs, it is basically determined that it will be removed from the combat sequence.
Hu De came to the command cabin. Without a telescope, he had seen that the sea on the east side rose and rolled in thick smoke.
Farther, more than a dozen French warships were celebrating by turning around.
The staff continued to report on the side: "Just now, two French cruise ship hit the" Smoke Smoke "on the one side of the" Smoke Smoke ".
This situation is actually very rare, because the gunpowder is piled on the inside of the artillery deck, and there is a layer of wood shell block in front, which is usually difficult to hit.
Hu De suddenly remembered that the "Smoke Smoke" was blasted from two gap last week.
He looked at the official to the official: "Send the frigates to save people." One hour later, the "smoke" that was burned into the skeleton completely entered the Mediterranean, becoming the first to be sunk in this naval battle. Battleship.
At noon the next day, the British Mediterranean fleet slowly entered the Port of Gibraltar.
Hu De's chest could not help but feel a sense of relaxation, and he suddenly felt that the port was cute unprecedentedly.
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London.
No. 10 Tangning Street.
The Mediterranean Fleet in front of Xiaopet returned to the application for the maintenance of Plordmers' maintenance and looked up at the Minister of War: "General Jevis, what about the opinions of the Ministry of Navy?"
Jevis said with some difficulties: "Mr. Pete, at present, it is necessary to return local maintenance."
I didn't wait for the little Pitt to say anything, and the Duke of the Internal Affairs Minister Portland said anxiously: "At this time, we will have almost no fleet available in the Mediterranean during this period?"
Jevis sighed and nodded: "Indeed."
"So who will escort our merchant ships?" The Duke of Portland shouted almost, "The French fleet will tear them!"
There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!
"This ..." Jevis's voice became weaker and weaker. "It can only be recommended that merchant ships not enter the Mediterranean seas for the time being."
"How can this?! Do you know how much trade we have in the Mediterranean? Oh, God, we invested so much money for the navy, and finally was driven out of the Mediterranean!"
Pete signaled him to calm, and then said to Jevis in a serious tone: "I can ask the merchant ship to temporarily not enter the Mediterranean.
"But after the fleet completes maintenance, what plans to deal with the French Ministry of the Navy?"
The latter sighed again and sighed again, and said with a bitter face: "The French fleet has never been fighting against us, but uses a flexible boat to constantly harass. If it is in the Atlantic Ocean, we can also use wind to arrange tactics, but in the Mediterranean Sea, but in the Mediterranean Sea ... "
"So your conclusion is?"
"Sorry, Mr. Pete, it is difficult to make effective counterattack in the short term."
The Duke of Portland noticed his words keenly, and immediately took the way: "So what about the long -term countermeasures?"
Jevis put another document on the Prime Minister's table: "We plan to build a batch of steam power warships, which is the development plan of the Chatehan Shipyard."
The Royal Shipa Shipyard is a well -known shipbuilding base in London, and the famous ship "Victory" was built here.
Jevis continued: "With my country's shipbuilding ability, as long as it invested enough funds, I believe that it only takes one year to one and a half years, and our steam warship can exceed France."
To be honest, Britain is indeed conservative in other aspects, but the Navy has always been very good at learning fresh technology.
Historically, Spain and France several times of warship technological innovation, most of which were achieved by the British in the end.
In fact, at this time, the British shipyard has begun to use steam engines for wood hanging.
It can only be said that they encountered the "bug" existence of Joseph, and then temporarily fell back to the backward situation on the innovation of the battleship.
(End of this chapter)