This cannot be miscalculated, it can only be said that people are not saints and sages. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoActually, the Scharnhorst-class battleships, which were specially designed for the ocean, also used large water-tube boilers to reduce logistical and maintenance pressures, and for this reason, the displacement of the Scharnhorst-class battleships was actually higher than that of the orthodox Helgrand-class battleships. No way, the efficiency of the large water tube boiler is a bit low.

"In addition, I need to make it clear that if we continue to build new ships, I recommend using a kerosene boiler." Fisher continued.

"Hold the grass? Did I hear me right? Isn't this tantamount to abandoning rapid-fire guns and reverting to the old rack guns? As soon as they heard this, the naval officers on the side were anxious! To be reasonable, there are too many benefits of oil-fired boilers, you don't need so many stokers, you can use the oil pump directly, you don't need to consider manpower in the case of maintaining long-term high-speed navigation, and the combustion value of heavy oil is much higher than that of coal, and under the same weight, the range of a battleship using fuel is much stronger than that of using coal.

And from the perspective of warship design, the use of heavy oil is more suitable for the underwater defense system of the warship, which is actually very good to think, the heavy oil tank can only be used to pump fuel with a small opening, and the opening of the fuel tank is generally larger, and the structural strength is naturally different. The division of watertight compartments of the British is not as good as that of the Germans, so the underwater is naturally worse, and the use of heavy oil boilers is still convenient for supply, if it is a coal-fired boiler, the officers and men of the whole ship will go up together, everyone will move briquettes together, if it is heavy oil, a little people, just get an oil pump. This heavy oil boiler to replace coal-fired boilers is the general trend, is it good! How is it possible to go backwards? Is it really as a famous saying goes, history is a spiral forward, and regression and repetition are common things?! Almost all of the Royal Admirals were somewhat confused.

"Admiral Jericho, you are the commander of the Grand Fleet, I suppose you know more about the oil depots of the Grand Fleet than you know about your own house, right? Can you explain this to all of you? Sir Fisher glanced at Jericho on the other side and said angrily.

Does Fisher have what it takes? Naturally, there is, otherwise he would definitely not be the first minister of the sea, and he was also promoted step by step from the fleet. The ability is not to say that it shocks the past and the present, but it is also top-notch. To be fair, Fisher's life is worth blacking, and that is the admiration for battlecruisers, which he has achieved during his tenure as First Sea Lord.

First of all, he dared to dismantle the old warship under pressure, which was a very bold and effective action, and a former dreadnought was worth 100,000 pounds a year for maintenance and use! How many ships did Britain have before being dreadnought? Dozens of them! And among these battleships, not to mention the battle line, how many are usable? A large number of old warships were eliminated, and a lot of money and personnel were saved, so that the Royal Navy could have the money to develop new warships. Fisher has a great credit for this!

Secondly, although Fisher had some problems with the battlecruiser, don't forget that Fisher can lead the whole world into the age of dreadnought in history, and this kind of vision and determination is worthy of 32 likes for him by future generations! The price of a dreadnought is almost twice that of the previous dreadnought, and those who can make this kind of thing ruthlessly and accept this kind of thinking are all fierce people!

As Minister of Sea, Fisher needs to pay attention to but not only the fleet, but he also needs to consider the budget, consider the composition of the fleet, consider the human resources, and consider the strategy of the enemy. From this point of view, he is actually standing a lot higher than Jericho. And the fuel problem he is mentioning now is actually a hint that the British Empire has encountered fuel supply difficulties in the current environment.

You know, unlike battleships, the hundreds of light cruisers and destroyers of the British Empire are mainly oil-burning, if you want to feed these battleships at one time, it is simply not enough to have more than 60,000 tons of heavy oil, and a large destroyer needs 300 to 500 tons of fuel. The fuel demand of a light cruiser is about 1000 tons in a jump! How much of a drain are these things?

And what makes Fisher even more depressed is that now aviation fuel consumption has also risen, and after realizing the huge role of the Air Force, the British have also begun to step up the expansion of the army, in line with the principle of piling up the number of aircraft first, regardless ......of whether it is good or not, whether it will be used or not, and now even the furniture factory and the piano factory have begun to process wood for the Air Force aircraft. Then the number of aircraft in the Royal Air Force climbed directly to about 1,200, and there is a tendency to increase, although this plane does not have the 96, 100 high-octane aviation gasoline in later generations, but these things are also refined from crude oil. The gasoline oil yield is only about 10% ....... The consumption of gasoline in aviation and automobiles has directly led to a major problem in the already inadequate supply of fuel in the United Kingdom. At this time, the Navy still has to engage in full heavy oil boilers? Fisher thinks even if he agrees, the government is unlikely to approve it.

The British government's oil shortage in this plane was not only caused by German submarines, before the war, Britain could import crude oil from the United States, Persia and the Dutch East Indies, but now Persia is close to the Persian Gulf, which is the home ...... of the Such-hung fleet. Oil tankers want to go out? Thinking too much, right? The Dutch maintained neutrality, but again, the transport route had to avoid the Su-Xiong fleet and camouflaged raiders on the Indian Ocean, and the submarines had to ...... close to the British coast.

Not to mention how difficult it is to get this way, how many brain cells need to die and how much risk it takes, but any normal businessman would not do this business ...... now. Nonsense, now that the war has begun, the world's first maritime power (Great Britain) and the world's second maritime power (Germany) are busy fighting, and there are a large number of orders in the maritime transport industry! Isn't it money to ship anything? Do you have to tie your head to the waistband of your pants and do things for the British? Can't think about it?!

To take the simplest example, in 1914, the total tonnage of Japanese shipbuilding in 1914 was only 52,000 tons, and by 1918, the total tonnage of shipbuilding soared to 420,000 tons! What does this mean? It's in high demand! A Japanese named Nobuya Uchida opened a company with only 1 steamboat in 1915, and then the following year, it was directly expanded to 16 ships! In 1918, this guy simply invested in a shipyard for 2 million yen!

And it's not just the shipping industry that has been hit hard, but the insurance industry is no different, because the number of attacks at sea has increased so much that many insurance companies have refused to provide services to British ships, and the cost of war insurance has skyrocketed, which has increased the cost of British shipping a lot.

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