Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 644 Clues and Artillery

Because it was in the shallow sea area, after work was over at 6:[-] p.m., everyone simply anchored the boat on the seabed, and then went directly to the restaurant to have dinner.

To be honest, the people on the salvage ship who worked three or four shifts could also hold on, but there was absolutely no need for Liang En and the others to be so nervous when they didn't need to be in a hurry.

Since this is an offshore area with little wind and waves, and it is far away from various waterways, the ship only needs to run a small diesel engine to provide electricity for the entire ship, so the noise on the ship is naturally much smaller.

Different from the well-defined distribution of cabins on those big ships, the warehouses on this small boat are often multi-functional. For example, this restaurant is also a meeting room, operating room, and temporary warehouse on board.

So the restaurant looks a bit crowded now, because all kinds of supplies are piled up everywhere, so that there is not much space for everyone to eat, and it is even obvious that it is a bit crowded here.

Fortunately, good food can smooth out the disadvantages brought about by a bad dining environment. Considering that this kind of salvage activity is absolutely hard work, Liang En naturally prepared a lot of good food in advance.

Although the food they carried was basically instant food or semi-finished products due to the inconvenient use of water on the ship after the test, but under the cooking of the chef on board, these things showed a delicacy no less than that of fresh food.

Considering the fact that they have just arrived at sea, everyone ate a variety of fish tonight, some of which were even caught from the sea by boring crew members with fishing rods a few hours ago.

Because there are more local Mexicans, the staple food tonight is mainly seafood barbecue with some bread, in addition to some alcoholic beverages.

Of course, considering safety issues, they only distribute beer to those who are not on duty tonight, and each person can only drink two cans of beer at most.

This can be regarded as an old tradition in the United States. During World War II, the beer that the U.S. Navy distributed to soldiers every day was actually just two small bottles.

"In the whole day today, we fished out 427 pieces of silver ingots. If there is no accident, this should be the vast majority of silver that can be found." During the meal, Lao Zhang talked about today's harvest.

"In addition to the silver, we also found some silver coins, which may add up to more than 200 kilograms, which is not small in terms of quantity alone, and the silver coins are buried next to those silver coins."

"Yes, I saw those things on the ship just now." Liang En nodded and said, "So I guess this place is probably the cabin where the ship used to store important supplies."

"We also think so, because those things are too dense, and when they are excavated from the sand on the seabed, it is obvious that these things seem to be gathered together by humans."

For Lao Zhang, who has rich experience in underwater salvage, it is not so difficult to distinguish the simple situation of these things. The safety of things washed together underwater by the current and the safety of things placed together by humans are two different things.

"It's a pity that we don't even know what's going on with the ship underwater now? If we knew, we should be able to take the next step."

"It's not a big problem." After Lao Zhang said this, Liang En quickly replied, "You have already brought up the bronze cannon and some sundries. If there are no accidents, I should be able to salvage them from this pile. I found some clues among the sundries that came up."

When Lao Zhang and the divers were salvaging, they salvaged almost all the things that could be found with metal reactions, so in addition to the silver, silver coins and some jewelry, they also salvaged some sundries.

Most of these things are worthless things, such as metal parts on the ship, and some common metal daily necessities, but there are also some things worth seeing, such as some daily necessities made of precious metals.

What attracted Liang En's attention the most was not the gold, silver and jewels, but some small things. From these small things, it was possible to analyze the specific identity of the ship back then.

It's just that because of the thick rust on those things, Liang En can't tell what they are for a short time, so what he needs most now is time.

So after enjoying a feast of grilled seafood, Liang En quickly went back to the laboratory and began to analyze the conditions of these salvaged items one by one, trying to screen out the conditions that are conducive to the analysis of the ships. s things.

"Why exclude these?" Joan of Arc showed a curious expression after watching Liang En put the gold and silver tableware aside, because she felt that these things should be more convenient to trace the user, and then trace the identity of the ship.

"Because this is the age of sailing ships, which is different from the age of steamships." Liang En was happy to share this history-related knowledge with Joan of Arc.

"In the age of steam sailboats, there were indeed various tableware with the name of the ship on those ships, but that was the need for advertising when the commercial development reached a certain level, and the utensils on the ship before that were not like this."

"For example, in the age of sailing, the utensils on board were basically the personal belongings of those crew members, so there were only personal marks of those crew members on them."

"Considering that we don't know the names of the people on the sunken ships, we only found the names and emblems of individuals. It is difficult for us to confirm which ship these people were on."

"On the contrary, there may be traces we want to find on these big guys." Liang En patted the cannon he found, "After all, even in that era, cannons and ships corresponded one by one."

Compared with the items made of precious metals, the two cannons they found and carefully salvaged were obviously in very bad condition, and one of the cannons even broke itself during salvage.

And when Liang En inspected the broken cannon, he found that the cannon had been completely corroded for some reason, leaving only the rust in the shape of the cannon.

This kind of cast iron artillery is much cheaper than bronze artillery, so many countries in the Age of Discovery are willing to endure heavier weight and higher bombing rate to use cast iron.

It's just that there is a difference between artillery and artillery. Among them, British cast iron artillery has the best quality, while Spanish artillery contains too many impurities due to the fuel used in the manufacturing process, so the quality is very problematic.

Also because of these magazines, the cannons from Spain are more likely to be rusted by sea water, which is why Liang En and the others found this cannon rusted like this.Well, I just learned one.It's just fur.

Fortunately, the other cannon is a bronze cannon, so the overall situation looks much better than the rusted iron cannon.At least in Liang En's view, the cannon should be repairable.

But being able to repair it doesn't mean it's a good repair. The damage of this cannon is considered by the card to have exceeded the upper limit of repairability, so now he can only repair it manually in a traditional way.

(End of this chapter)