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, 2005-12-12
Steam Tug SL95 "Delta Vee" v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5/TL10) Copyright 2005 by Onno Meyer Dinomn (1912 Spinward Marches) has a major starport, but most ships are just refueling on their way to or from Regina. In the undeveloped hinterland, the farmers and herders make do with 'locally sustainable technology' and a few black-box imports. The Delta Vee is a small river and harbor tug. It can be found towing barges or maneuvering larger ships into their berths. The tug is little more than a hull with a steam engine, two side wheels and a deck house with the rudder controls and the imported electronics. Aft of the deck house is a steel hitch set into the massive hull timbers and the stern is kept clear as a working area. The usual crew consists of the captain, two mechanics/stokers and two deck hands. At routine travel speeds, the engine burns 16 cubic feet of coal or 64 cubic feet of wood per hour. A full load of coal is $400 and a full load of wood is $80. The tug costs approx. 4,600 Imperial Credits. Subassemblies: Body +5, Superstructure +3. Powertrain: Two TL5 160-kW paddle wheels; TL5 320-kW triple expansion steam engine; TL5 6,000-kWs lead-acid batteries. Fuel: 400 cf coal. Occ: Bridge RCS (Sup), 5 bunks (Body). Cargo: 50 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/10 3/5 3/10 3/5 3/5 Superstructure: 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 Equipment Body: TL10 0.1-mile depth-finding sonar. Superstructure: TL5 whistle; TL10 long-range radio; TL5 navigation instruments; TL10 transponder; TL10 GPS; TL10 Complexity 4 dedicated, small computer with datalink. External: TL5 Tow hitch; TL10 25 sf solar cells (Superstructure). Statistics Size: 50'x20'x20' Payload: 11 tons Lwt.: 45 tons Volume: 3,300 cf Maint.: 54 hours Price: $137,900 HT: 12. HPs: 9,000 Body, 225 Superstructure wSpeed: 11 wAccel: 0.6 wDecel: 1(1.3) wMR: 0.05 wSR: 5 Draft 3.3'. Flotation 85.5 tons. Design Notes Body is 3,000 cf. Superstructure is 300 cf. Body structure is TL5, extra-heavy, expensive, with mediocre hydrodynamics. Superstructure structure is TL5, light, expensive. Armor is TL5 expensive wood. Waterproofed. Mechanical controls. There are 52.23 cf of empty space in the body and 111.59 cf of empty space in the superstructure. Empty weight is 68,000 lbs. The vehicle uses TL5 and TL10 components with the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: Either another riverboat or a helo for Jeff. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
