Cool I'll read it and if you want any comments I would be happy too. How late will it be?
ConfederateFly said:At the begginning of the ACW the recently defunct East India Company offered 10 new ships and some other older ships to the Confederacy. What types of ships would be offered in this TL?
By Duquenese1862- US Gold supply split with CS, GB turns over those three ships the CS had built in England. The CSN starts with these state of the Art 48 gun Frigates. Given the HMS Warlord? as a example. the next group of ships would be Iron hulled, built in England. by 1868 Norfolk-Newport Mews would be repaired. the CS would start making Surport ships for the Engligh built Frigates, along with lots of small Coastal Ships [sloops & Schoneers] designed to Break any attemped Blockade. This spurt whould be over by the mid '70s, leaving the CSN with a couple dozen Frigates, and a gross of Smaller ships. The War inducted need to compete with the USN dieing out. The South would turn to building it's Merchat Marine. In the latter '80s the CSN whould take a look at what was going on, and start a program to replace it's older Fleet ships with new Steamer-Sail ships, And it's Coast fleet with state of the art Steam Monitors. There wouldn't be any reason to expand so this would be an ongoing process of slow replacement. So at the time of the Nicraguguan War. The CSN would have a half dozen new fleet vessals,a dozen and a half older 1860's era frigates, along with 2 dozen new steam Moniters [If they refuel in Mexico they could make it ] and 100 smaller Ships.
By Duquense1862- US Gold supply split with CS, GB turns over those three ships the CS had built in England. The CSN starts with these state of the Art 48 gun Frigates. Given the HMS Warlord? as a example. the next group of ships would be Iron hulled, built in England. by 1868 Norfolk-Newport Mews would be repaired. the CS would start making Surport ships for the Engligh built Frigates, along with lots of small Coastal Ships [sloops & Schoneers] designed to Break any attemped Blockade. This spurt whould be over by the mid '70s, leaving the CSN with a couple dozen Frigates, and a gross of Smaller ships. The War inducted need to compete with the USN dieing out. The South would turn to building it's Merchat Marine. In the latter '80s the CSN whould take a look at what was going on, and start a program to replace it's older Fleet ships with new Steamer-Sail ships, And it's Coast fleet with state of the art Steam Monitors. There wouldn't be any reason to expand so this would be an ongoing process of slow replacement. So at the time of the Nicraguguan War. The CSN would have a half dozen new fleet vessals,a dozen and a half older 1860's era frigates, along with 2 dozen new steam Moniters [If they refuel in Mexico they could make it ] and 100 smaller Ships.