Struggle in Russia

骁 Li Xiao didn't know that the open fights and instigations surrounding him were in full swing, not to mention that the gizmo made out of nothing to help him avoid a catastrophic disaster.

He was so busy that he didn't have enough time to pay attention to the intrigue of high-ranking Saint Petersburg. In the newspaper, he had been arguing with the semi-royal Royal Navy general designer for several rounds, and he had to say that he was truly a strange one.

As the chief designer of the battleship, the level of mathematics and physics is almost unsatisfactory. The design of the battleship is based on many years of experience and completely rejects all scientific experiments and scientific tests.

Even if this is all the more worrying, Sir William Simmonds still has a captivating self-confidence, thinking that his predecessor, Sir Robert Sobbins, is a scam, he only understands "paperwork" and only "science The formula "flower shelf, I think that Serbins, who was born in the battleship design school, did not understand shipbuilding at all!

Seriously, there are many articles here. Unlike the imagination of later generations, the Royal Navy that traveled by sea at that time did not consider its shipbuilding technology to be the first in the world. For a long time, the captains of the Royal Navy believed that the French had better shipbuilding skills than their own. French man-made ships were the best ships.

Based on this understanding, the Royal Navy is very disdainful of its own ship designers. It always feels that it is a group of maggots who do not work for money. So in 1807, after research and suggestions, a special school for training ship designers was established.

This is the battleship design school graduated by Sir Thorbins. It was opened in 1807 and forced to close in 1832. This school has trained a large number of professional ship design talents for more than two decades. It should be said to be of great significance to the Royal Navy, but this school has faced great controversy since its inception!

However, this controversy is coming from within the Royal Navy. A group of old-style officers, including Simonds, have no knowledge of science, and only superstitious themselves and their predecessors called "feeling" and "experience." They "feel" scientifically designed warships are still not as good as captured from the French, "feeling" science is useless, and the "feeling" warship design school is a waste of money.

Let's put it this way, in the shipbuilding, the Royal Navy was divided into the conservative and conservative “sensation of experience” and the academic “superstition of science”. These two groups of people each have a large number of fans, and every day they talk about each other, that is a wonderful show.

The original academicism of “superstition science” prevailed, not because their scientific claims were well-founded and well-founded. At the beginning of the 19th century, these were nonsense, and science has no market for metaphysics.

There is only one reason why the academies can gain the upper hand, and that is because there are some people in the North. Supporting the academy was Viscount Bahan, the first Minister of Maritime Affairs (that is, the Minister of the Navy) that directly promoted the birth of the Warship Design Institute.

There is a big boss in the Navy Department who can stand up and support. Who can get the academic school? Even if many grass-roots naval officers did not buy academic accounts at that time, academics still lived with interest.

However, the old saying goes, 30 years Hedong 30 years Hexi. By 1832, things had changed, and Sir James Graham, the first Secretary of State for the new administration, would not eat the academic style.

一 As soon as he came to power, he closed the Battleship Design Academy, and then let the graduated Royal Navy Chief Designer Sir Robert Sobbins retire early and return home, replaced by the former Sir Simons.

爵士 Sirmonds is a hard-core "experience" school. He has spared no effort to attack the academic warship design is a shit. The attacking academic warship design is far inferior to similar French ships.

All in all, academicism is useless in the eyes of Sir Simons. The new chief designer is fascinated by his own experience and believes that the warship he designed is the best.

Is that really the case?

I'm afraid it's hard to say. At first, Symonds' design philosophy was really popular with Royal Navy officers. Because the design of the ship has obvious characteristics-a particularly large ship width and a particularly pointed bottom.

I won't talk about the quality of this design. Let's talk about why Royal Navy officers like the design of Simonds. The reason is very simple. The most obvious feature of this designed boat is that it is wide and large.

Obviously, no officer would not like his ship to be bigger. This way the living area will not be so cramped, and the living is quite comfortable. Who would like to live in a narrow can?

So the design of Simonds was very popular at first, but then ... the officers of the Royal Navy were full of tears. The poor officers found that Simmonds's boat was indeed wide and large, with luxurious beds, but the boat was as uncomfortable as a roller coaster!

I'm shocked!

According to the basic philosophy of warship design, Simmonds' design has a relatively small length and width, and the ship is wide and stable. Should it be good? Why is it uncomfortable?

Hey, sometimes the numbers are deceptive ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ Small aspect ratio is really good for stability. Therefore, the roll angle of the ship designed by Simonds is not particularly large, at least not much larger than the academic-designed ship of the same period, but his design roll period is particularly short!

Simply say, the frequency of shaking is particularly high! At the same time, when someone's boat rolls once, his boat will roll twice. In addition, the roll angle is slightly larger than the others, and the result is conceivable.

In the words of a Royal Navy officer: "The roll was sudden and violent! Discomfort!"

As we all know, the most important point of a warship is that it must be a stable firepower platform. If the rolling is sudden and sudden, the gunners on the boat will have a lot of fun, and almost never want to work normally.

Later, the chief of the Royal Navy, Lord Corbone, wrote a letter to First Secretary of State Graham immediately after driving the classic design of the Vernon, a Simmons:

"When the sail was smooth, Vernon ran faster than anything in the sea, and I did believe it. But once it hit the headwaters, the ship became unimaginable ... I didn't know what to do How to make an analogy, it can only be compared to a Trojan horse played by a little boy. It is too swaying in situ ... It is too easy to bury it, and it will be damaged in the wind and waves.

Let's put it this way, Simmonds' design is too extreme. For sailboats, increasing the width of the boat and increasing the height of the crotch will help reduce yaw and ballast. But Simonds, who did not understand mathematics, did all this too much, which directly caused his ship to seem stable but in fact a big cradle.

What's more terrible is that Simonds is full of hostility towards steam ships, propellers and iron hulls. It is always best to insist on the so-called tradition, which has directly led to his growing unpopularity ...