The Second Reich: Beginning with the Prince of Prussia

Anderson Sr. was a designer who worked at the Volken shipyard.

Originally, according to his age, he would be able to retire in a few years.

Volkeng Shipyard is a long-established shipyard in the Second Empire, and its performance has always been very good, so the welfare package of employees is also very good.

His job was originally very enviable, but after the relocation of the Volken shipyard to Hamburg, the good days of old Anderson came to an end.

Originally, with his qualifications, he could have moved with the shipyard, but old Anderson was a Pomeranian, and the family had settled in Stettin, and it was difficult for him to move his homeland, and he thought that he was about to retire, and he didn't want to move around.

So he retired from the shipyard and prepared to go home to enjoy the blessings.

Not long after he retired from the shipyard, his wife became seriously ill.

In order to treat his wife's illness, the elder Anderson took her to search for famous doctors all over the country, spent almost all his savings, but still did not get better.

Seeing his wife's condition getting worse and worse, and the savings he had saved had bottomed out, Anderson Sr. couldn't help but fall into anxiety.

Although he has a son and two daughters, the son has just married and had children, and his salary can only support his own family, and he cannot afford to pay for his mother's treatment.

As for the two daughters, the family they married is not the kind of rich and wealthy family, although they can give some support, but this money is just a drop in the bucket for the expenses needed for treatment.

Just this month, Anderson Sr. spent his last savings to buy his wife 2 courses of medicine.

These medicines are only enough for his wife to take for half a month, and if he can't earn any more money after half a month, he won't have the money to buy medicine for his wife.

So, he decided to go back to the mountains and asked people to help him everywhere, hoping to find a suitable job again to earn money to support his family.

Anderson Sr. was unexpected, but with his ability and experience as a designer at the Volken shipyard, it should not be difficult for him to find a job.

But the ideal is plump, but the reality is skinny.

With the change of imperial policy, the shipyards in the Baltic region, especially near Danzig and Stettin, were almost all relocated to the North Sea.

As a result, there is no need for shipyards in the market to recruit workers, on the contrary, there are many workers and even designers like Anderson Sr. who do not want to move away with the shipyard and want to stay in place to work.

In this case, it is very difficult for him to find a job!

After running into walls everywhere, Anderson Sr. fully recognized the reality.

At his age, with these conditions, it was almost impossible to get a job in a shipyard in the Pomeranian region.

Unless he moves to the northwest of the empire, where shipyards have sprung up and there are plenty of jobs waiting to be hired.

However, his wife's condition deteriorated day by day, and she could not bear the bumps and tosses on the road.

So old Anderson can't go if he wants to!

Just when he was feeling torn between two and the other days, a co-worker he had worked with told him the news

I don't know who bought the Volkeng shipyard where they worked, and now they are recruiting workers on a large scale, and it seems that they are planning to resume production.

As soon as old Anderson heard the news, he immediately became excited, and hurriedly ran to the original Volkeng shipyard, for fear of missing this opportunity.

When Anderson Sr. arrived at the scene, he found that the owner had erected a huge blueprint outside, which showed a brand new ship.

There is also a line written below, those who have the ability to build such a battleship, will be given priority.

Anderson Sr. understands that this is the other party's entrance exam, and the purpose is to screen out those who are indiscriminate.

Most of the people at the scene are old boatmen, experienced and capable.

When they saw the exam questions released by the shipowner, they all felt unfamiliar, and none of them recognized what it was.

"What kind of ship is this, it doesn't look like a warship, it doesn't look like a merchant ship, we've never seen it before!"

"Yes, don't say you haven't seen it, I've worked at the Volken shipyard for most of my life, and I've never seen a ship like this!".

"The structure of this ship looks so complicated, what is the purpose of the brackets below and the small wings above the waterline on both sides?".

"I don't know, but in my experience, this bloated structure will destabilize the ship and slow it down, right?"

"I don't think so, since the owner dares to come up with such a design drawing, it must have been technically verified, right?"

Hearing everyone's discussion, old Anderson looked over curiously.

In front of everyone was a small ship with a peculiar shape, its length was only a dozen meters, its width was only two or three meters, and its displacement was only about 100 tons.

It stands to reason that these experienced veteran shipwrights present should have seen a lot of small ships of this size.

However, the design plan given by the owner of the shipyard felt very strange to them.

Because, it's a hydrofoil!

"This should be a kind of speedboat!".

The experienced old Anderson, with his past work experience, recognized the purpose of the ship from its design features.

"Speedboat? Whose speedboat captain is like this, can this kind of boat run after launching?"

"That's right, the shape of this boat is completely different from that of a speedboat!"

The shape of the hydrofoil is very different from that of ordinary boats, it has brackets at the bottom and hydrofoils on both sides, and when sailing at high speeds, the buoyancy provided by the hydrofoil will lift the hull off the water, thereby greatly reducing the resistance of the water and increasing the sailing speed.

As you can see from its design ideas, it was born in pursuit of high speeds.

This design was often used in later generations to build various small warships with a relatively small displacement, such as missile boats, torpedo boats, etc.

They need to rely on their own speed advantage, quickly approach the target, release the ship's torpedoes and anti-ship missiles, and take advantage of the opportunity for the target to react, and kill with one blow.

The design ideas of hydrofoils perfectly meet their requirements.

However, from the perspective of the people of this era, the complex structure of the hydrofoil does not look like it can run very fast.

Old Anderson wasn't sure himself, but he had visited the shipyard where the sun never set, and had seen one of their speedboats, which seemed to be somewhat similar to this one.

Andrews felt that the time was almost up, so he personally stepped forward and asked everyone

"Who is sure to build such a ship?".

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