"Captain! Cape of good hope! See the Cape of good hope!"
In the early morning sunlight, a pleasant shout came across the sea. Hachem heard a series of messy bangs in the stern cabin. Then Pearce ran out of the cabin out of order, and there was still a large pile of foam left on his lips.
"Really?" he looked at the bow on tiptoe. "Where?"
"Eleven o''clock, 26 kilometers, land!"
"Damn it!" pierce cursed bitterly, raised his hand and clenched the cable of the mast, like a clever monkey, charging towards the lookout.
This is a strange team.
Twenty two days after joining the team, Hashim still felt this way.
They came from the Drake chamber of Commerce in England. The official title of the fleet is the second fleet directly under the General Chamber of Commerce - special service formation, governor pierce Yates, 16 years old. A little boy with flaxen curly hair, profound cultivation and exquisite skills.
The fleet consists of four new ships.
Flagship Attis lady, varkiri class high-speed patrol ship, with a total length of 60.7 meters and oak ship materials.
There are 28 32 pound long-range guns [Boston sweeper], 20 24 pound short-range guns [Boston defender], 4 18 pound medium range guns and 2 12 pound medium range guns for stern guns, and the bow guns are made by the legal English Plymouth gun casting workshop, 2 32 pound mortar guns, 56 for the whole ship, which is the standard of first-class patrol ships.
It is fully loaded with sails, and its huge fluid hull has unimaginable high speed, 14.5 knots downwind and 5.5 knots upwind.
The lady of yatis is equipped with two Liao ships, Xinsheng code and future. They are five-level Galen special high-speed destroyers with a maximum speed of 15.5 knots, equipped with 40 firepower.
Another 16 door brigantin communication ship with a speed of 18 knots is named xiangyanghua.
Pierce''s [team] is scattered in this powerful super high-speed fleet, with a total of 10 people.
Dylan snapps, the 48 year old deputy commander and captain of the future, is the sea god needle in the team, the old father and the only member over the age of 30.
Yadoan freemani, the dispatcher and new captain, is 25 years old. He graduated from the advanced class of the chamber of commerce school. He likes to rely on the old and sell the old with the unknown "core figure of sea operation".
However, no one has told Hashim what the sea sweeping operation is.
Flagship chief mate Shaw Turner, aged 23, graduated from the advanced class of the chamber of commerce school. At the same time, he also served as the captain of the fleet. He was a disciple of master Karen Scott and the fiance of Miss Lenny Scott, Karen''s youngest sister.
As above, Hashim doesn''t know who these two Scott are.
Drogo Kao, the charge leader and the third deputy of the flagship, is 22 years old. He graduated from the advanced class of the chamber of commerce school. Miskito is good at spear, axe and arrow blowing. No one can fight with short guns.
There are 57 Indians like him in the whole fleet, which are composed of the protagonists of the Stormtrooper and the sail group. Cao is their leader. In addition to his duties on the ship, he is also called "oldman" by these people. According to Hashim''s understanding, it generally means the chief.
Flagship helmsman villa ray, 19, graduated from the advanced class of the chamber of commerce school.
Flagship lookout VO Warren Adria, 17, graduated from the advanced class of the chamber of commerce school.
The two are said to be classmates. Ray is calm and Adria jumps off.
Hashim heard that Adria saved Ray''s life.
The marine specialty of the advanced class of the chamber of commerce school has a half month desert island test when graduating. In order to simulate the state of shipwreck, students need to swim and land on the island from five kilometers away.
As a result, Lei encountered a group of jellyfish cruising while swimming, and fainted and incapacitated unprepared.
At that time, everyone could only watch Lei sink slowly in the center of the jellyfish group. Only Adria rushed in recklessly, was stung more than a dozen times, miraculously kept awake, and dragged Lei onto the beach.
These five people are the first Department of the advanced class of the chamber of Commerce. They usually call each other elders and younger brothers. They have a close relationship and are always unified in their opinions.
In addition, the team also includes Xiao Sanmei, a native of the Qing Dynasty and from Boston. She is 18 years old and graduated from the intermediate class of the chamber of commerce school. She is one of the only eight female crew members in the fleet and the only female team member.
She is an assistant commander in charge of the Department. Her specialty is fighting. She carries two strange short blades called "Emei stabs" with her. She is an oriental woman who can feel the beauty of Hashim and must admit her strength.
She is also a pagan. She believes in a strange god named "boundless God". She is always around Pierce. She likes to call herself "the young master''s personal maid". Of course, the team also has another intimate nickname for her, calling her "Ai Shuni (second young nurse, from Wang Ye, special note)".
Jean dejo matilil, commander of the flagship division, is 24 years old from Porto, France.
He was once a soldier and worked in the French new world fleet. He was arrogant and had excellent artillery skills, command and tactics.
At the age of 18, he became the captain of a frigate. At the age of 20, he was transferred to the third-class ship to take charge of artillery, and his official fortune was prosperous.
However, he is not good at being a person, and he has no family and background matching his ability. As a result, after the Chesapeake Bay naval battle in 1781, with the whole world moving towards peace, the hot military stars were also included in the first batch of compulsory retirement list and bought out by 14 gold Louis.
Having lost his livelihood, he had to return to his hometown. After several twists and turns, he was introduced to yashalin, Desai''s son-in-law, who became famous in Porto through a luxury wedding.
Acharin found that he was not a good woman and didn''t speculate, so he threw him in front of Lorraine and finally became Pierce''s team.
Faramin snapps, chief accountant and second deputy of the flagship, is 26 years old, the son of deputy governor Dylan and the second son of the family.
Faraming was born in the intermediate class of the chamber of Commerce and studied at Cambridge Law School. He has two master''s degrees in economics and law.
The fleet implements the separation of Finance and accounts, the dispatcher manages the money, and the chief accountant controls the accounts. Finally, they are responsible to governor Pierce, as well as to the commercial department and the accounting department of the General Chamber of Commerce.
So the relationship between faraming and freemani is very bad. Pierce doesn''t have any willingness to coordinate, and Dylan will only laugh and watch them quarrel.
The last person on the team is him, navigation officer and flagship navigator Hashim, 21 years old, former pirate, master of astronomy from the University of Bern
In Hashim''s view, this team is a little frighteningly young from any point of view.
Under the leadership of a teenager, a group of young people hold a powerful fleet and huge funds, just like a group of rich second generation going out to experience life.
What''s more, they also shoulder heavy responsibilities to open up new routes for the chamber of Commerce and establish the fourth African branch of the chamber of Commerce in the Cape of good hope
Pierce''s legendary brother, Lorraine Drake, the helmsman of Drake chamber of Commerce, is that man''s heart made of iron? Have you never thought about the possibility of failure of these young people?
Or... Do these young people really have excellent talents matched with resources?
All the answers will be revealed in the Cape of good hope.
Pierce Yates, is this little young governor really trustworthy
Can the great feud of the Praia really be avenged
Is the Drake chamber of Commerce really as powerful as it says
Hashim sighed heavily and subconsciously turned his eyes to the north.
There is the Cape Verde islands where the praya people have lived for generations, and traveling northward from the islands is his second hometown, the Swiss Confederation that failed to impress him in the end.
Godfather, I hope I really chose the right way this time.
Antille laguain, the beast