ship info

[Lyndon Alton Liberty]

>>>>Look here : http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Nautica.html  : it is where I stumbled over the basis for the figures. A Spanish Galleon costs roughly 210-250 times the cost of a War Galley (50') to build, not including the iron works and cannons. I arrived at 10000 gold for a War Galley based on some figures I found a long time ago, they compared the cost of a Large Nobles Summer Home to the cost of building a warship. Most Kingdoms didn't have more than a few ships until 1370. That seemed to be because they just cost too much to build and maintain. 
[For verification I used Columbus's trip to the new world cost about 2.8 million "monetary units", three quarters of which was provisions, bribes, salaries, building costs, and labor. That means that roughly 930,000 for the ships, a third of which is the iron and cannon cost. That averages about 205,000 per ship, so I felt I was pretty close.....]    

>>>>ANYWAY, I hope you can find a lot of GOOD info at this site. They DO have links to ship plans........  ;)
Lyndon


-----Original Message-----
From:   Scott Adams [SMTP:longshot at JAX.FIDONET.ORG]
Sent:   Saturday, November 15, 1997 3:14 AM
To:     POWERS-AND-PERILS at DUTCGEO.CT.TUDELFT.NL
Subject:        ship info

>>>>Look here : http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Nautica.html  : it is where I stumbled over the basis for the figures. A Spanish Galleon costs roughly 210-250 times the cost of a War Galley (50') to build, not including the iron works and cannons. I arrived at 10000 gold for a War Galley based on some figures I found a long time ago, they compared the cost of a Large Nobles Summer Home to the cost of building a warship. Most Kingdoms didn't have more than a few ships until 1370. That seemed to be because they just cost too much to build and maintain. 
[For verification I used Columbus's trip to the new world cost about 2.8 million "monetary units", three quarters of which was provisions, bribes, salaries, building costs, and labor. That means that roughly 930,000 for the ships, a third of which is the iron and cannon cost. That averages about 205,000 per ship, so I felt I was pretty close.....]    

>>>>ANYWAY, I hope you can find a lot of GOOD info at this site. They DO have links to ship plans........  ;)
Lyndon

*** Quoting lliberty at ERINET.COM from a message to longshot ***
ll> that can handle rough weather, magic has to be used to safeguard 
ll> the ships they have, eitherpersonal magic or prayers to responsive 
ll> Deities. Another problem which is often missed is cost. A Spanish 
ll> galleon would cost around 210000 gold based on the cost for a war 
ll> galley. Not even the Dwarves would pay that much for a hunk of
How do you get that cost?  Do you have ship info? :)

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