China's modern shipbuilding industry began in the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, with the ship Huangque designed, tested and manufactured by Xu Shou, the first generation shipbuilding engineer in China and a famous scientist in the late Qing Dynasty as the forerunner. About this historic first ship in China.
The birth of the yellow pigeon, its trial-production process and its performance in operation after completion, for more than 100 years, due to different historical records or details, its evaluation is also very different.
Huanggu's engine room is in front, and the steam engine is a single cylinder, with a cylinder length of two feet and a cylinder diameter of one foot. The boiler is eleven feet long, the furnace diameter is two feet three inches, and there are forty-nine furnace tubes, seven feet two inches long and one inch five in diameter. The shaft is one foot two and eight inches long and one inch eight in diameter. At present, there are many versions about the specific size and launch time of Huanggu, which is controversial.
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The ship made a trial voyage in the Yangtze River, and traveled 225 miles against the current in less than 14 hours, with a speed of about 16 miles per hour. It took only eight hours to return downstream, and the speed was about 28 miles per hour. When Zeng Guofan's eldest son, Ceng Jize, defected to his father in the northern provinces, the ship took his ship to Gaoyou. He was very satisfied with the performance of the ship, so he named it "Huanggu".
"Huanggu" is the first motorized ship in China, which was developed by China people and successfully built mainly by manual labor. Its construction opened the prelude to the development of modern shipbuilding industry in China.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Huanggu Steam Boat