[Vehicles/Spaceships] Sails & Steam Donkeys

[Marasmusine]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

In Ve2 you could use a man for (I think)0.15 kw of energy in a muscle engine. Take the number of men you're replacing and get a steam engine that produces an equal value.

I was thinking of that. My guesses for Preussen are that it has 30 sailors that work the sails (Wikipedia says 37 to 42 sailors total). With watchkeeping, this is 10 sailors per watch. Without the steam donkey, this would be 20 sailors.

Given an average sailor ST of 12, this is 2.4 kW.

Steam donkeys used in the logging industry were about 60 kW, so I thought ship boilers would be comparable. Of course, the ship boiler is running the rudders too.