In the late 1980s, a Polish shipyard designed and started building a steel sail training ship for the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the project came to a halt.
Later, Mikael Krafft, who started operating a large-scale sailing luxury cruise ship, bought the completed hull and transferred the next step of construction to the Netherlands. In July 2000, the internal structure, decoration and sail fittings were completed and named "Royal Clipper".
As one of the "Clipper" series of luxury cruise ships, it started operating on the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.
Due to the epidemic, the tourism industry has been hit hard. The ship was also not operating well. Yang Fan directly spent money to buy it and asked the ship owner to drive the ship to the dock in the Horn of Africa for delivery.
Yang Fan opened the manual and looked at its performance introduction:
Ship name: Royal Clipper
Tonnage: 5000 tons
Captain: 134.8 meters
Ship width: 16.5 meters
Draft: 5.6 meters
Passengers: 227, 106 crew
Sail type: Full-rigged
The Royal Clipper is a five-masted iron ship. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the world's largest active full-sail ship. It is a sailing cruise ship.
There is a superstructure on the main deck and two floors below the main deck. One of them is below the waterline.
The sail area is 5203 square meters, with a total of 42 sails, with a maximum height of 60 meters from the keel to the top of the mast. It is magnificent and pays full attention to the wind area and stability. The whole ship is designed very beautifully.
The sail control is highly automated and can be controlled by only 20 crew members. There are 106 crew members and 227 cabins, which can last for 1 to 2 weeks at sea. There are 3 stern doors on the ship for launching small sailboats and diving enthusiasts.
There is a swimming pool and a hot spring health club with glass portholes under the waterline.
While getting a massage, you can watch the small fish and waves through the glass porthole below the waterline. It’s so comfortable that you don’t want to miss it.
After hearing Yang Fan's introduction, the wives went crazy. What are they waiting for? They all ran to pack their suitcases.
This ship can host Yang Fan's family, which is enough to float at sea for several months. The ship has a restaurant, rest and entertainment facilities, and it is like moving the Yang family on the ship.
This ship was transported from the Horn of Africa to Beitangkou three months ago. It is now anchored in the anchorage and is guarded by a dedicated person. In the past three months, Mingyan personally came back from Jeju Island to arrange the ship's sailors, chefs,
and service personnel. Provide training in accordance with the manual.
Early the next morning, at the urging of his wives, Yang Fan finally took his entire family, including servants, on a convoy to the train station. They took a four-wheeled carriage to Changxindian, and then a special train took them to Beitang.
The train station. Not far from the train station is Beitangkou Pier.
This trip to the Yang Mansion was larger than any other trip. Yang Fan took his four wives and a pair of children. Aunt Mei took the maids, sisters Xiangyi and Xiaoyu all went to sea on the ship. Donkey Dan and Mo Table each took them.
A cavalry battalion followed the escort in two troop transports.
Now the train departs from the Beitang Pier departure station and reaches Guihuacheng Station, which is fully open to traffic. It only takes six hours from Beijing to Beitangkou.
Yang's tour group excitedly took a special train and headed straight to Beitang.
We arrived at the pier before dark and took a small steamer to the anchorage.
Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the golden sunset shone on the big boat, which shocked Xiao Niangpi and others. When they looked at it from a distance, they didn't realize how big the boat was. Only when they got under the boat did they realize how big it was.
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What is the concept of five thousand tons? The largest sailing battleship in history is the French Valmy. This ship is just that, length x width x draft = 64.05 meters x 18.11 meters x 8.61 meters. The full row is 5826 tons.
1,100 crew, 120 guns.
Valmy's full load displacement is only 5826 tons. The Royal Clipper's empty displacement reaches 5000 tons. It is nearly 135 meters long and 16 meters wide.
In this era, no wooden sailboat was more than seventy meters long. Because at this length, the strength of the wood was not enough to ensure the strength of the hull. It would collapse on its own.
The largest sailing warship in European history was only over 60 meters long. The Ming Dynasty's Fuchuan was short and fat, generally only over 30 meters long.
This 135-meter-long ship shocked Xiaoniangpi and the others quite a bit.
Seeing the small steamer coming, the sailors on the ship lowered the ship's side gangway so that the gentleman and his wife could board the ship.
However, the wind was strong today, with a swell of more than one meter. The gangway and the side of the small steamer were shaking very much. Yang Fan was worried that there would be a danger, causing the people boarding the ship to be squeezed by the two boats. Let the small steamer go to the other side of the ship.
Boarding on one side.
The wind has a direction. If there is a big wave on one side, and the hull is blocking it on the other side, it will be calm. The Yang Fan family easily boarded the ship from the gangway to the deck of the small steamer.
When they got on the boat, they couldn't see enough. The boat was too big and too luxurious. On the deck in the middle of the boat was a circular skylight with a diameter of ten meters. Under the skylight was a two-story patio. From the end
Looking up from the ground below, you can see the sky.
It's getting dark now, and you can see the sky full of stars when you look up.
The cabin is a cabin above the water and a cabin below the water. In the middle is a hall that connects the upper and lower floors. On the bottom floor, the large glass portholes can clearly see the fish of various colors swimming in the sea. This
This novel feeling amazed the ladies.
The captain of this ship is Lin Yuan, a student in the first session of the sailing class. He is from Fujian. His father worked as a craftsman in the shipyard acquired by Yang Fan. As a son of the shipyard, he was selected into the first session of the sailing class. Because of his excellent performance, he
Appointed captain of the master's private cruise ship.
This ship is a pure cruise ship without any weapons. It relies entirely on other warships for protection.
The sailors on the ship all wear the clothes of modern soldiers. There are fifty male soldiers, who mainly work on the deck and are responsible for steering the sailboat. They and the captain and other officers all live in the bow of the ship.
Fifty female officers and soldiers live in the cabin and are responsible for providing services to the master and his family in the cruise cabin area.
These female sailors are all sixteen or seventeen years old, with top-notch looks and figures.
In terms of clothing, they all wear white shirts and ties. They wear navy uniforms, mini skirts, stockings and high heels. Under the big-brimmed hats, they have uniform short hair that reaches the ears. They look heroic and very eye-catching.
They have seven officers, one captain, two lieutenants, and four second lieutenants. The rest are sailors.
They are responsible for all services in the VIP areas on the ship, including kitchens, restaurants, bowling alleys, gyms, guest rooms, swimming pools, chess and card rooms, saunas, etc. They are even the ones doing spa treatments for the ladies.
These fifty female soldiers were specially selected and specially trained for this ship.
Yang Fan walked around the boat and was very satisfied.
Because this ship is a sailboat, it can be teleported over. After all, he can already build a clipper ship. This ship is made of all steel and is very strong. It can also reach a speed of 17 knots and can sail in formation with cruisers.
Yang Fan came to the largest bedroom on the ship, which was located underwater in the middle of the ship. It had floor-to-ceiling glass walls on both sides. There was a huge waterbed here. You could enjoy the underwater scenery while lying down.
Unfortunately, this is the Bohai Sea, the water is turbid and the fish are not good-looking.
It would be great if we were in the South China Sea or the Maldives, where there are crystal clear shallow seas, beautiful coral reefs, colorful fish and marine life. If it were anywhere, the view from this bedroom would be very charming.