Red Sunrise
The Red Sunrise was build some time after the sinking of the Sunset Dawn, chief Engineer Bobby Smith had luckily saved the plans of the Sunset Dawn on a drive. And after accidentally meeting Rose in the Pirate Refuge, they decided to rebuild the Sunset Dawn.
It took some time to find a suitable shipyard. They didn't have the funds to outright buy a ship from a superyacht builder, and they required some secrecy. Bobby ended up in XXX where they used to build Soviet navy submarines, and with the skills that yard had, they build a copy of the hull of the Sunset Dawn but in a titanium alloy. Shaving twenty-five percent of her hull weight.
While Bobby and Aleksey worked with the yard, Rose sought out her former Master at arms Heinrich von Bern to find new guns together. They went to their original supplier of ammunition, A.G. Trading, but they couldn't source the same guns as the Sunset Dawn had, the Rheinmetall 120 mm L/55. But they did manage to get their hands on the shorter L/44 variant. Which allows the Red Sunrise to have considerably more space in the center of the main deck, and the guns are eight hundred kilogram lighter each.
The original L/55 guns had such a long range that it really was too good for their intended use. They lacked the electronic target acquiring aiming and stabilization the Leopard-2 tanks have, doing it all by hand and eye, so the L/44 version is actually good enough for them.
How they got the Red Sunrise out of the yard without paying an insane amount of money for the titanium is a story for another day.
Changes
The messroom is moved into the deckhouse. And the galley is moved to the gundeck, inbetween the foremast and the staircase. The forward companion way stairs are continued down to the lower deck. The food stores are moved up a deck to where the messroom was. And the hydraulic accumulators are moved down a deck (or they are moved to the Engineroom (former lower hold). Two doors are made to go from the former messroom into the upper hold.
The freed up space is used for crew quarters. The two crew quarters 16 bunk on the main deck aft, are removed. The captains office is removed and this becomes the chief officer cabin. old C/O cabin becomes 2/O cabin, old 2/O cabin becomes 3/O cabin.
The Red Sunrise doesn't get diesel engines to power her props anymore, she becomes diesel electric. The lower hold gets converted into an engine room, with generators, the upper engineroom deck becomes part of the upper hold.
A large battery pack is installed, so the ship can sail without running it's generators.
The moving of the engineroom all the way down has a possitive influance on the stability of the ship.
re-rigged to barque??? No I think the Barquentine rig is faster/more manoeuverable and therefore more favourable for the use of the pirates.
square rigged masts build up of three parts, from titanium (the yard cannot do carbon). For easier repairs of the shorter pieces instead of the single piece pole masts. although single piece pole masts are better for the aerodynamics. ? I think aerodynamics are more important in this case, as we want the ship to go FAST.
The freed up space on the gun deck can be used to spread out the guns more, or install more guns? Depends on how many guns Rose can buy.
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