This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2013-03-25
Tramp Steamer v1.0 (TL5) Copyright 2013 by Onno Meyer This small steamer goes where freights and charters take her, without fixed schedules or ports of call. Perhaps even to unexplored islands or lands out of time ... The 'three island' ship has three raised decks forward, midships, and aft, hence the name. The midships superstructure mounts the bridge, the chart room, cabins for the captain and three officers, and a boat deck. The crew quarters are in the forecastle and poop. At 7 knots, the engine burns 1.5 tons of coal per hour for a range of 840 nautical miles. At 5 knots, the coal lasts for 1,800 nautical miles. A full load of fuel and provisions is $19,200. Subassemblies: Body +8, Superstructure +6, two full-rotation Open Mounts +4. Powertrain: 400-kW screw propeller; 400-kW triple expansion steam engine. Fuel: 7,200 cf coal. Occ: 4 bridge NCS, 18 double-occupancy cabins, 4 single-occupancy cabins. Cargo: 30,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/36 4/36 4/36 4/36 4/36 Superstructure: 4/18 4/18 4/18 4/18 Equipment: Body: Voicetubes; mechanic workshop; 36-man environmental controls; 2,000 man-days of provisions. Superstructure: Voicetubes; whistle; meteorology instruments; two sets of navigation instruments; ST 220 winch; two 2-ton external cradles; 4-man environmental controls. Open Mounts: Two 6.25-ton cranes each. External: 4,600 sf top deck. Statistics Size: 180'x30'x60' Payload: 500 tons Lwt.: 1,000 tons Volume: 100,000 cf Maint.: 8 man-hours Price: $723,350 HT: 11. HPs: 90,000 Body, 12,000 Superstructure, 1,000 Open Mounts. wSpeed: 8 wAccel: 0.04 wDecel: 0.5(0.52) wMR: 0.05 wSR: 5 Draft 10'. Flotation rating 2,496 tons. Design Notes Cheaply made (to represent wear and tear). Body is 96,000 cf, with average hydrodynamics. Superstructure is 3,800 cf, on Body. Open Mounts are 600 cf each, on Body. Structure is extra-heavy, standard. Armor is standard metal. Waterproofed. Mechanical controls. 29,053.6 cf of empty space in the Body, 1,289.6 cf in the Superstructure. Empty weight is 1,000,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata] and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A bigger freighter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
