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and their fleet grows once more it would be interesting if they also encounter a cruise ship that may have a petrol technician traveling on vacation
well we now have a new ship the Fugro Symphony and crew.
things got a bit bumpy witch will be a challenge to fix.
a grate chapter team do keep up the good righting.
Tricky to find a size of ship thats big enough to take the hit and small enough not to drag both down.
To me, it dosnt help that they seem to use the same plate thickness accross a whole range of ship sizes, so when you reach the megacarriers, thier hulls are tinfoil.
Then again, my favourite ship has a hull thickness that I think isnt much less than the width of Amandine the ship. Only problem is it cant enter shallow water, like Dogger Bank or the English Channel. Unless it has some extremely weird and advanced populsion transport mechanism based on digital cameras or such.
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That it would, though I'm kind of wary at the prospect of introducing a cruise ship beyond the pet peeves I have against that particular sector of the maritime industry*.
I mean... All things considered the 'cast' of the story, the WSU fleet, still is rather small. Cargo vessels like theirs rarely have complements exceeding the fifty mark. That subtly leaves them with limited manpower at all times.
Compare that to groups that would comprise of both a cruise vessel's complement and passengers... you're in the high hundreds, thousands if you pick one of the big 'uns. At such a time after the Event where survivor groups are limited in size, I fear not only this would upset the balance of power I'm eventually trying to establish, it would shatter it entirely.
Should you be interested in a PaP story that involves a cruise ship, then I suggest "Cruising Into the Unknown" from RQO.
* My biggest reproach against the cruise industry is that its existence alone is a stain to the maritime industry. Cargo vessels, despite their flaws, still remain the most efficient mean of transporting freight on long distances. The cost-per-ton and fuel-consumption-per-ton-mile alone make them a greener alternative than even trains. Particularly intercontinental vessels, due to economy of scale.
The cruise industry however, has no such excuse and produces tremendous amounts of waste. Far more than any beach resort ever could.
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Yeah, at that scale I'm pretty sure the brunt of the impact is taken by structural beams, not the outer shell. FYI double-hull tankers are stated to have a critical speed under which collisions will not puncture the inner tanks. And that speed is roll-of-the-drum... a mere four knots on most tankers.
It does jack shit. OPA 90 is obsolete and needs to be amended, bloody Act is slowing down shipbuilding research in the entire industry. Double-hull tankers are not the top-of-the-line design they want you to think, and they're stopping the implementation of hydrostatically balanced hulls worldwide just because the yanks lacked foresight in their lawmaking.
That being said, you got me curious about that fav ship of yours. Which is it, if I may ask? I'm a big fan of Pioneering Spirit myself (the million-ton ship) and I can't fathom anything bigger roaming the seas.
Besides Shell Prelude. Then again, Prelude doesn't have propulsion.
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thanks. maybe a destroyer or a interceptor would be more important to the fleet so the can have a specialized and trained maritime defense also a carrier can make things interesting after the planes adaptation because now they can have a in land surveillance making the exploring missions more easy for the land personnel.
and thanks for the fic suggestion
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Its a very old design, back when Aircraft Carriers were new and didnt have catapult assist. An awful lot of material needed to build it, all but a few tens of thousands of tons was cheap renewables.
Then came Compressed Board and the optimised material recently announced which I have to call Titanium Wood. Take pretty much any bulk timber product, like a whole straight tree trunk. Cook with newspaper chemicals heat and pressure to strip out the lignin to a given percentage, Wrap in a non permeable flexible membrane, place under high hydrostatic pressure with a small ejection pump to remove the cellular fluids. Result is a mix of aligned nanocellulosic fibres cross linked by flexible lignin molecules almost as dense as Aluminium and far stronger.
Currently, the expected mass production costs of such material is to be similar to that of steel.
Now freeze a hundred million tons of water around a framework, mixed with approx 14% fibre and flake mix, and you end up with a ship thats one of the strangest, and alrgest, to reach prototype demonstration stage.
I would love to work out a softbot based construction system that you release into the ocean and it replicates itself and builds these things.
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Project Habakkuk, the pykrete aircraft carrier so big it would have been able to launch Lancasters. I can respect having that as your fav ship for sure.
Still, gotta wonder how they'd have managed fitting engine nacelles to that thing back in the day...
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22 external Nacelles, 11 on each side, Electric motor driving a propeller, powered by diesel electric plants inside. My personal variation uses pulse compression thermonuclear reactor plants due to direct conversion possible because of the pulses. Especially given the NIF chamber can be duplicated with a set of modules making up a million over the counter car laser sparkplugs. At least, before petrol cars were suprisingly killed ten years earlier that expected, shutting off the market for millions of laser sparkplugs and so shutting off the chance of cheap pulse conpression fusion reactors in the gigawatt range.
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Correct guess for the brand, not so much on the specific model. I'll just say... the marketing director from Griffon publicly stated export was key to their sales. And... they kept them public. Easy to track down then, and a bit of research can quickly verify anything that comes up.
You know if a backtrack there was a dry dock behind them that they could use to for repairs I just thought that was hilarious.
Scotland dry doc- Dales Marine Services
Or they can get this one if you want to head Ford.
Scotland dry dock- Peel Ports Inchgreen Dry Dock
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There are some pros and cons that weighed in on heading back towards the Firth o' Forth or going onward. Disregarding some of the auxiliary stuff that favored Belfast over other ports (more for storytelling reasons), it goes about as such:
*Edinburgh (Dales, in Leith) and its dock involved going some 200NM backwards (east) along their forecast track, in a case where the currents in the Pentland Firth were pushing them west in the opposite direction. A bit far. If there had been a dock in Aberdeen that might have been justifiable (plus the fact that Cpt. Prateek's European residence was there), but oddly enough for that big an offshore port it doesn't have any.
*As for Glasgow (Inchgreen), it would have been closer than Belfast, had there not been that one thing they call the Kintyre peninsula standing in the way. As it stands, getting there is some 40 NM longer than Belfast from where they were near the Orkney Islands. Plus you have the fact that sailing up the Clyde Firth is a lot less straightforward an entry passage than the Belfast Lough. That one is just a bay.
Anyway, glad to see your comments. Looks like you're catching up on the story real fast.
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I'm actually related to lord mt.Batton. imagine my surprise when i found out i am related to the lord of pykrete.
Another great chapter M.M.
I love the new name for the Event, “fur-pocalypse”!