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. With a slight delay, old vehicles appear at http://omeyer.gmxhome.de/GURPSnet_files/summary.html Onno Meyer, 2005-11-28
Hargrave H-6 Cargo Submarine v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5) Copyright 2005 by Onno Meyer On the cool southern seas of Vanejen, ice blocks surface traffic for much of the year. With locally sustainable technology, submarines like the Hargrave H-6 are commonly used to slip under the ice. The H-6 is a small freighter, with holds for 6 dtons of cargo. It has a captain, a first mate, a chief engineer and 3-5 sailors, which leaves berths for 1-4 passengers. Some pirates mount deck guns and MGs, but it is not possible to add torpedo tubes to the civilian craft. With glass vision ports for underwater docking and navigation, a H-6 would be ill prepared to withstand depth charges. The submarine has twin gasoline engines for surface travel, with fuel for 2,000 nautical miles at 8 knots routine travel speed. Submerged, it can sustain 2.5 knots for 24 hours or 4.8 knots for 4 hours on battery power. At routine travel speed, the engines burn 48 gallons of gas per hour. A full load of fuel is $3,600. The H-6 was introduced in the classic Traveller adventure Research Station Gamma. Some changes were necessary for a Vehicles adaptation. Subassemblies: Body +7, Superstructure +4. Powertrain: Two 400-kW screw propellers; two 400-kW gas engines; 3,200,000-kWs lead-acid batteries. Fuel: 12,000 gallons gasoline (fire 12). Occ: 3 RCS (body), 1 RCS (Superstructure), 4 RS (Body), 5 bunks. Cargo: 3,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 Equipment Body: 5-mile searchlight; 10 man-days limited life system; 500 man-days provisions. Superstructure: 30x 25' periscope; navigation instruments; 2-ton crane. Statistics Size: 150'x15'x30' Payload: 70 tons Lwt.: 360 tons Volume: 12,800 cf Maint.: 23 hours Price: $738,490 HT: 8. HPs: 12,000 Body, 1,800 Superstructure wSpeed: 13 wAccel: 0.2 wDecel: 0.5 wMR: 0.05 wSR: 5 uSpeed: 8 uAccel: 0.2 uDecel: 0.5 uMR: 0.05 uSR: 5 Surfaced draft 7.2'. Submerged draft 31'. Crush depth 154 yards. Design Notes Body is 12,400 cf. Superstructure is 400 cf. Structure is heavy and standard, with heavy compartmentalization, average hydrodynamics and a submersible hull. Armor is standard metal. Mechanical controls. There are 106.67 cf of empty space in the body and 99.2 cf of empty space in the superstructure. Empty weight is 580,000 lbs. The TL5 vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi (for the crush depth) and VXii (for the armor volume) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Traveller rules affect the background but not the technology. Next Week: Probably a TL5 riverboat. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
