"Screee!"
A golden eagle flew across the sky, letting out a high, ringing cry. By the lakeshore, the masts of the giant ship stood tall, like vast divine trees—perfect places to build a nest. Even the fibrous cloth for nest-building was ready-made. Its eyes were like the most precise measuring rule; with one sweeping glance from high above, it saw the great ship's form and structure with perfect clarity.
The "Snow Wolf King," this giant ship still under construction, had a central overall length of roughly 52 meters, a beam of between 10 and 11 meters, a depth of 6 to 6.5 meters, and a designed draft of over 4 meters. Its designed cargo capacity was 520 tons, but due to the limits of the average artisan's skill, its actual completed capacity might be slightly lower. And since the materials used for this ship were extremely solid and its volume kept growing as it was built, its true displacement would very likely exceed 800 tons.
Put simply, this giant ship was big and heavy, thick and narrow—built however made it strongest! And according to the body characteristics of Song Dynasty oceangoing ships, the block coefficient of the whole vessel was probably around 0.6. Its sharp bottom was not that sharp, its hull was not that wide, and its sailing speed was likewise middling.
As for the construction process, it naturally followed East Asia's most common shell-first method: planking first, then ribs erected afterward. A deep keel, solid timber filling at bow and stern, and transverse watertight bulkheads were added as well. If this ship were placed in the Great Ming, it actually would not count as large. Among the maritime merchants of the private trade in Guangdong and Guangxi alone, there were many oceangoing Fuchuan of similar size and better