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Onno Meyer, 2009-04-01
Tanker Galley v1.0 (TL7 7/8th)
Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer
In a proper post-apocalyptic adventure, fuel will become very valuable
while Evil Overlords can lay their hands on countless slaves. The Tanker
Galley is the ultimate expression of this concept - a ship carrying one
million barrels of crude oil or refined fuel, yet powered by a thousand
rowers. The rowers are arranged a scaloccio, five men to each oar, which
reduces the need for skilled men. For longer cruises (and with 2.6 knots
top speed any cruise will be long ...) there are backup rowers, plus two
shifts for the hand-cranked electrical generator and up to 700 trusties,
thugs and nautical crew.
A full load of provisions is $480,000 (at listed prices).
Subassemblies: Body +12, Superstructure +8, two full-rotation Open
Mounts +4, full-rotation Open Mount +0.
Powertrain: 200 five-man oars; 50 kW muscle power plant.
Occ: 5 bridge RCS (Superstructure), 1,250 RS (Body), 1,250 hammocks
(Body), 620 bunks (Body), 40 luxury cabins (Superstructure).
Cargo: 115,000 cf
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80
Superstructure: 4/20 4/20 4/20 4/20
Equipment:
Body: 42,000,000 gallons gasoline (fire on 11); 1-mile depth finding
sonar; 150 fire extinguisher systems; complete workshop. Superstructure:
Two very long range radios; long range radio; three sets of navigation
instruments; 10 fire extinguisher systems; brig (5 bunks); two 25-ton
external cradles; 80-man environmental controls; 80,000 man-days of
provisions. Open Mounts 1-2: ST 250 crane. Open Mount 3: 100-mile radar,
surface search, no targeting.
Statistics
Size: 900'x120'x160' Payload: 128,000 tons Lwt.: 160,000 tons
Volume: 10,051,206 cf Maint.: 106 man-hours Price: $121,726,975
HT: 5. HPs: 1,680,000 Body, 15,000 Superstructure,
1,000 Open Mounts 1-2, 40 Open Mount 3
wSpeed: 3 wAccel: 0.0004 wDecel: 0.2 wMR: 0.02 wSR: 7
Draft 55'. Flotation Rating 260,000 tons.
Design Notes
Cheaply made (to represent wear and tear). Body is 10,000,000 cf, with
heavy compartmentalization, roll stabilizers and average hydrodynamics.
Superstructure is 50,000 cf. Open Mounts 1-2 are 600 cf and Open Mount 3
is 6 cf, all mounted on superstructure. Body Structure is extra-heavy,
very cheap. Superstructure structure is medium, very cheap. Armor is
cheap metal. Waterproofed. 1,616,857 cf of empty space in the body and
8,352 cf of empty space in the superstructure. Empty weight is
64,000,000 lbs.
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, January 2007 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: A big transport ship.
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