Above the Pirate King

Chapter 855 The Fearless

The weather is fine and sunny!
It's a great day to travel!

And on this day, Arthur came to the shipyard in Bloodport Town, Kingdom of St. Martin!

"Weiwei, this is the research and development place for our warships of the Kingdom of St. Martin!" Arthur smiled and introduced the huge shipyard in front of Weiwei to the side.

Early this morning, Arthur received a message from David, telling him that the latest warship had been built and was going to be launched for testing today, so Arthur wanted to come and inspect the new ship!
But what I didn't expect was that on the way here, I happened to meet Weiwei who was taking Icarem and Karoo to visit and study in the city, and was going to copy some good places in St. Martin City to Alabasta.

After Weiwei heard that Arthur was going to inspect the shipyard, she asked Arthur to go and see it together!

Considering that Weiwei and Icarem don't know much about shipbuilding, they won't write down the secrets of battleships just by looking at them, and warships can't be built just by looking at them, Arthur didn't have much to say. After hesitating, he straightforwardly agreed to Weiwei's request!

So, Weiwei and her group followed Arthur to the cabin!
"It's so big!" Weiwei looked up at the huge shipyard in front of her, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Is this the largest shipyard in St. Martin?"

She has seen shipyards before. Alabasta, as a superpower on the great waterway, naturally has shipyards, and there are quite a few of them!
But it was the first time she had seen a shipyard as big as the blood port town shipyard in front of her!

On the other hand, Icarem's face remained unchanged, but the shock in his eyes betrayed him.

Obviously, he was also very surprised by this huge shipyard!
"Although it's big, it's not the largest shipyard in St. Maarten. There are shipyards several times bigger in St. Martin!" Arthur shook his head and said with a smile.

It is true!
With the development of St. Maarten, only one shipyard in Blood Harbor Town is obviously not enough to meet St. Maarten's demand for ships!
Because of this, Arthur started to open up a new shipyard many years ago!
Among them, the land of flowers with cheap labor, high quality and low price, and the original shipbuilding country of Xihai, the birthplace of Meck, and the kingdom of Silas with many boatmen, have become the second new shipyard of the kingdom without accident!
Arthur established the second shipyard of the Kingdom and the third shipyard of the Kingdom in two places, which are several times larger than the shipyard in Blood Harbor Town!
And the original blood port town shipyard took advantage of the trend to become the number one shipyard in the kingdom, and the main business of shipbuilding was also canceled by Arthur, and it was changed to a place dedicated to the research and development of new warships!

"Really?"

Weiwei couldn't help being surprised.

"Of course, this is only a place for ship research and development. There is another place in our kingdom for shipbuilding, and the shipyard there is even bigger!" Arthur explained with a smile, and then added, "Well, I can take you to see it when I have time. !"

"That's great!"

Hearing this, Weiwei nodded happily.

"Okay, let's go in and have a look now!" Arthur said seriously!

With that said, Arthur took the lead and walked into the shipyard!

Seeing this, Weiwei also followed quickly!

Soon, a group of people entered the shipyard!
At this time, David, the person in charge of the shipyard, has been waiting for him for a long time!
After seeing Arthur coming, David immediately greeted him and saluted respectfully, "Your Majesty!"

"There's no need to be too polite!" Arthur waved his hand and said with a smile, "Take me to see the boat!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" David nodded with a smile, then made a gesture of invitation, and said, "Your Majesty, please come inside!"

As he said that, David took the lead and walked towards a steel battleship in the shipyard, on which dozens of shipwrights were carefully inspecting!

"Your Majesty, the one in front is the latest warship "Dreadnought". Its displacement is 18000 tons standard and 22000 tons full load. Its dimensions are about 160 meters in length, 25 meters in width, and 8 meters in draft!"

"In terms of power, two steam engines "Steam Pioneer II" newly developed by Maker are used as the main power, and the "Tidal Force II" newly developed by the Kingdom can convert 50.00% as auxiliary power!"

"The speed is usually about [-] knots, but because we have loaded the double wind shells on the ship, we can even travel at a speed of [-] knots for a short time if necessary!"

"In terms of armament, there are 10 12-inch/45-caliber artillery pieces, 5 double-mounted guns, 27 12-pound guns, and 5 18-inch torpedo tubes. In addition, there are four of the kingdom's latest steam mecha "Fengshen III" as Auxiliary combat power!"

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"In general, it is countless times stronger than the two models of "Destroyer" and the original "Conqueror" developed by our kingdom last time!" Along the way, David briefly introduced to Arthur. Check out the approximate performance and stats of the new ships!
In the past ten years, St. Maarten has not been without progress in warships!

The Devastator is the second steam warship developed by St. Martin after the Conqueror!

However, unlike the Conqueror, the Devastator does not use a hybrid of steam and sails, but is fully steam-driven.

In terms of performance, it is much higher than the original Conqueror, and it can almost beat the Conqueror. Therefore, after the Devastator came out, Arthur ordered people to start mass production of this warship to replace the original Conqueror!
But because the time is too short, St. Maarten has a large navy, and there are too many Ravagers that need to be produced. Therefore, in the past ten years, the Ravagers have only armed the core fleets of St. Maarten.

The others still use the original Conqueror!
But this time, with the appearance of the Dreadnought, Arthur could imagine that a battleship like the Devastator, which has only been developed for a few years, will soon be relegated to the second line.

"This ship is not weaker than the warships at the beginning of the twentieth century, and even much stronger in terms of speed!" Arthur thought secretly while listening to David's description of the new warships!
"It's really strong!"

On the other side, Weiwei and Icarem both showed surprised expressions after the same thought flashed through their minds after hearing David's introduction!

Although they don't understand shipbuilding, it doesn't mean that they don't understand ships. In fact, as long as they are on the sea, they have some basic knowledge of ships. Therefore, they know that the data of the fearless, what it represents What!
It can be said to be a mobile sea killer!

"It would be great if we could have such a ship in Alabasta!" Weiwei couldn't help but have such a thought in her heart!
Immediately, she subconsciously glanced at Arthur aside!
Under the sunlight, Arthur's face appeared sharp and angular, and his eyes were full of domineering!
In a trance, Weiwei seemed to return to the day in her memory, she saw that day when she saw Arthur bathed in lightning, that godlike scene!

a long time!

Weiwei just came back to her senses!
"Whoo~"

Taking a deep breath, Weiwei quickly followed Arthur who had already walked away.

But what she didn't know was that Arthur's figure was imprinted in her heart at this moment!
(End of this chapter)