Notable Ship Classes
The Little David: The Fleet's unarmed speed competition craft, built to compete against Edward Pearse's Steam Ray.
Several Monitor Class Ironclads: Part of the backbone of the fleet, the turreted Monitor
class (and her derivative multi-turreted sisters) are an important part
of the fleet's striking power. The monitor "rotating turret" classes have recently gone through a major upgrade.
Several Casemate Class Ironclads: Essex, Virginia, Nashville and Columbia class "slab-siders" for the mass striking power of broadside Dhalgren guns.
The David: Spar Torpedo craft, capable of instant ship kills.
The Hunley: the Fleet's sole submarine. Rigged with a spar torpedo capable of instant ship kill, it can approach a target under water.
Aether Ship Class:
- The Hornet: An Aether ship powered by a combination of
liftwood planking and cavorite engines. Medium armor, one large
quickfire gun forward and two waist guns. Two in service: the Black Maria and the Bonadventure. The Black Maria was recently tested in battle against a pirate zeppelin over Eyre.
- The Skorpion: An Aether ship of immense size with large
caliber weapons all around fired at strategic points. One in service,
still in the yards and not yet christened.
- The Sky Galleon: featuring a forward firing cannon of
medium bore and small crew, primarily uses a liftwood design with a
small auxiliary engine.
Spotting/Reconnaissance aircraft:
- The Ornithopter: flapping winged aircraft, firing light lewis gun. Plans are in work to refit a Narragansett-style barge with a sloping deck from which to launch an Ornithopter, creating the Fleet's first powered aircraft carrier.
- The Fighter/Recon Steam Fighter (aka Steam Doughnut):
highly unusual Edison Corporation aerial fighter crafted as a steam
powered circular fan with dual cockpit-- pilot and gunner. Recently
tested against sky pirates from the future and bested them.
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