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, ikael Krafft, who started operating a large-scale sailing luxury cruise ship, bought the completed hull and moved the next step of construction to the Netherlands. In July 2000, the internal structure, decoration and sailing were completed, and the ship was named "Royal Clipper" and started operating in the Mediterranean and Caribbean as one of the "Clipper" series of luxury cruise ships.
The tourism industry has been hit hard due to the epidemic. The boat was also poorly run. 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
Vessel width: 16.5 meters
Draft: 5.6 meters
Passengers: 227 + 106 crew
Sail type: Full-rigged
The Royal Clippers is a five-masted iron ship that, according to Guinness World Records, is the world's largest fully-rigged ship in service. It's a sailing ship.
There is a superstructure on the main deck. Two levels below the main deck. One of the floors 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 spectacular and pays full attention to the wind area and stability. The design of the entire boat is very beautiful.
The sail control is highly automated and can be controlled by only 20 crew members. It has a crew of 106 and a cabin of 227, and can last for 1 to 2 weeks at sea. The ship has a stern door for small sailboats and diving enthusiasts to launch, 3 swimming pools, 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 portholes below the waterline. It doesn’t matter if it’s comfortable.
After listening to Yang Fan's introduction, the wives went crazy. What are they waiting for? They all ran to pack their suitcases.
This boat can accommodate Yang Fan's family, which is enough to float on the sea for several months. The ship's restaurants, rest and entertainment facilities are complete, and it's like moving Yang's mansion on the ship.
The ship was transported from the Horn of Africa to Beitangkou three months ago. Now anchored in the anchorage. There is a special person to guard it. In the past three months, Mingyan personally came back from Jeju Island to arrange the sailors, chefs, and service personnel for the ship. Provide training according to 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. TRAIN STATION. Not far from the station is Beitangkou Pier.
This trip to the Yang Mansion was larger than any other. Yang Fan had four wives and a pair of children. Aunt Mei took her maids, sisters Xiangyi and Xiaoyu to the sea with the ship. Donkey Dan and Mo Zuo each led a cavalry battalion and followed them in two troop transport ships.
Now the train departs from the Beitang Wharf departure station and reaches Guihuacheng Station, which is fully open to traffic. It only takes six hours from the capital 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 ship, making Xiao Niangpi and others stunned. When they looked at it from a distance, they didn't realize how big the boat was. When they got under the boat, they realized how big it was.
What is the concept of five thousand tons? The largest sailing battleship in history is the French Valmy. This boat is just fine, length, breadth and draft = 64.05 meters, 18.11 meters and 8.61 meters. Full platoon of 5,826 tons, 1,100 crew, and 120 guns.
Valmi's full load displacement is only 5826 tons. The Royal Clipper weighed 5,000 tons when empty. Nearly 135 meters long and 16 meters wide.
No wooden sailing ship of this era was more than seventy meters in length. Because at this length, the strength of the wood is not enough to ensure the strength of the hull. He crushed himself.
The largest sailing warship in European history is just over sixty meters. The Ming Dynasty's lucky boats were short, thick and fat, generally only more than thirty meters long.
This 135-meter-long ship shocked Xiao Niangpi and the others.
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.
But the wind was strong today, with swells of more than one meter. The gangway and the side of the small steamer were shaking so much that Yang Fan was worried about the 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 to board.
The wind has a direction. If the waves are big on one side and blocked by the hull on the other side, the waves are calm. Yang Fan's family easily boarded the ship from the gangway to the small steamer's deck.
When they got on the boat, they couldn't see enough. This boat is too big and luxurious. On the deck in the middle of the ship is a circular skylight ten meters in diameter. Under the skylight is a two-story patio. Looking up from the lowest level, you can see the sky.
It's 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 underwater floor, the large glass portholes allow you to clearly see the fish of various colors swimming in the sea. This novel feeling amazed the ladies.
The captain of this boat is Lin Yuan, a student in the first phase of the sailing class. He is from Fujian. His father worked as a craftsman in the shipyard that Yang Fan acquired. As a son of the shipyard, he was selected into the first sailing class. Because of his excellent performance, he was appointed as the captain of the master's private cruise ship.
The ship is purely a cruise ship, unarmed. It all depends on the escort of other warships.
The sailors on the ship wore modern soldier's clothing. There are fifty male soldiers, mainly working on the deck. Responsible for steering the sailboat. They and the captain and other officers all lived in the bow.
Fifty female officers and soldiers live in the cabin and are responsible for providing services to the master and his family in the cabin area of the cruise ship.
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. Wear a navy suit, a miniskirt, and high heels. Under the big brimmed hat is a uniform short hair that reaches the ears. It's very eye-catching to look at him.
They have seven officers, one captain, two lieutenants, and four second lieutenants. The rest were sailors.
They are responsible for all services in the VIP area 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 spas 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 boat is a sailboat, it can be teleported here. After all, he can already build a clipper ship. The boat is of all-steel construction. Very strong. The speed can also reach 17 knots, and it can sail in formation with cruisers.
Yang Fan came to the largest bedroom on the ship, located underwater in the middle of the ship, with floor-to-ceiling glass walls on both sides. A huge water bed is arranged here. You can enjoy the underwater scenery while lying down.
It's a pity that 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. Wherever it is, the view from this bedroom must be very charming.
