Pardon by bad English and terrible skills in drawing [3ed drawing]
[Printed on browning paper, Dated 7-7-1941]
Welcome one and all to the unveiling of the new Union of African States' Speed Demon Test Bed!
What's special about this ship is it can hit a high speed of 47 knots and hold speeds of 45 knots! faster
than any current warship own by the UAS!
Here are her Stats
-Type - Test bed/light coast defense boat
-Length - 49 Feet
-Beam - 10 feet
-Engine - one low Tokin steam engine, Two Steamvent Engines
-Speed - 18 k/h on Tokin, 45 k/h on Steamvent
-Range - 750 miles on Tokin, 200 on Steamvent
-Displacement - 6 Tons
- True Weight - ~4 tons
-Crew - 2-4 [two with the Tokin engine running, 4 with the Steamvent running
-Armaments - 1 XL Browning Machine Gun
- Build Time - 26 days 7 hours Avg, fastest was 12 day, 3 hours, 46 minutes and 43 seconds [SP11]
-Cost Per Unit - $45,739.47 , $30,000 for the engines
[6k for the Tokin and 12k for each Steamvent], 7,439 for the metals, 7,000 for the building cost and
1,000.47 for legal work/taxes. [2016 dollars]
-Production Run - 17 from 2-4-1942 to 9-12-1952 [12 for the UAS and 5 for private armies]
-L/A/S - 9 Lost, 3 Active, 5 scraped
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Story - WIP
Fate - SPX1 - Exploded in sea trials due to a piston head shattering
- SPX2 - Ran a ground off the coast of the golden coast at 37 k/h, ripping the bottom of the boat out
- SPX3 - Scraped in 1962 after the 3ed generation came out
-SP4 - Never was fully completed, scraped in 1947
-SP5 - Destroyed in the 1st Moroccan War of independence. Was fatally hit by the MWS Kate
-SP6 - Scraped in 1964
-SP7 - Still in active use as a drug runner
-SP8 - In permeant housing as a museum piece
-SP9 - Scraped in 1974
-SP10 - Ran ground off the coast of DC
-SP11 - Engine destroyed the ship when it blew up
-SP12 - Sold to the USA for test, was ran over by the USS JFK and sunk
-DOS1 - Lost to unknown causes, likely an engine failure in the Indian ocean
-DOS2 - Scraped in 2009
-DOS3 - Dropped from a plane in transited to Russia for sea tests
-DOS4 - Beached itself 23 feet inland from the ocean in Italy
-DOS5 - Still an active racing boat, engines have been upgraded over the years