Re: [HOE] I think I might have created a monster

[Bryce Perry <sandchigger@yahoo.com>]

--- Shawn Willett <damarshal@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I still have a question. In my game (the one that I actually
> run), 
> one of the PCs wants to raise the CSS Kidd and give it to the people
> of Red 
> Stick. I'd appreciate it if anyone with naval/underwater welding
> expertise 
> or just a reasonable guessimate, could tell me what this would
> involve. I'm 
> thinking he has to find a crane, get to the River with it, pump all
> of the 
> water and silt out of the destroyer, patch the multitude of holes
> just to 
> get it floating. In addition, 13 years at the bottom of the
> Mississippi 
> means the wiring would be shot in most cases. Somebody let me know
> what you 
> think.

Well, I'm no engineer, so I could very well be dead wrong, but I think
that pulling the ship to the surface should be the first priority.  Get
it to a drydock somewhere and plug the holes on land (this will also
allow water to drain out), clean the bad boy out, refit whatever
systems need it, and put the puppy back in the water.  It wouldn't take
more than - in my estimation - a month with proper naval facilities. 
In the Wasted West?  Years maybe.  Less with nautical-minded Junkers
around, possibly.  I believe the second Epitaph has Junker power(s)
designed specifically for watercraft.

-Bryce

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