Bluestone class Cargo Barge

Bluestone class Cargo Barge
Distant Fringe vessel.
Type: WBC Cargo Barge
Category	[[ACS]]
Size	3,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	Conical Hull
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–7
Engineering
Computer	Model/2
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	28
Officers	6
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	2,300.0 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Distant Fringe
Year Operational	Unknown
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr1,264.700 (base) MCr1,011.760 (qty)
Architect fee	MCrAde Stewart
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	Not applicable
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Also see	Barge
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: Ade Alagoric Stewart
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Book 5 High Guard

The Cargo Barge is a mercantile bigcraft.

• It is a Civilian Ship and a Transport.
• Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Specifications)

The Cargo Barge is a low-tech vessel designed to ferry cargo and passengers between locations. It is classified as a Bulk Cargo Carrier. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.

• The vessel is a TL-7 design.

Image Repository

1. A Bluestone class Cargo Barge in side view.
   

General Description & Deck Plans

No information yet available.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (...of ten subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary.

Basic Ship Characteristics
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage / Hull	The Cargo Barge is constructed using a 3,000 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has limited airfoil surfaces, giving acceptable atmospheric performance. Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. The vessel has an airlock. The vessel has a heavily built retractable wheeled undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: 28 x9 command, x4 engineering, x4 gunners, x9 service, and x2 passenger stewards. Accommodations There are 34 staterooms. 19 Staterooms are given over to crew quarters. The command crew have individual cabins: all other quarters are double occupancy. 15 Staterooms are available to passengers. There are 40 Low Berths. The ship does not have grav plates or inertial compensators: the interior of the ship is set up for zero-gee activity. The vessel has full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Sections of the ship can be isolated in the event of an emergency. There are multiple small emergency lockers.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts an extremely efficient reaction-based Maneuver-2 drive and a Fission Power Plant-2, giving performance of 2-G acceleration and producing 60 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 2. The internal fuel supply provides reaction mass for the Maneuver drive and is considered sufficient to support approximately 4 weeks of operations. The Power Plant fuel consists of heavily shielded rods of fissionable material. The engineering section has a main control room. Ladders, gantries and platforms give access to the machinery.
4.	Electronics	Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/2 Computer: the vessel has a backup Model/2 Computer. There are multiple workstations and control points throughout the vessel. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment and a basic sensor array. It is fitted with backup commo and sensor systems. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x30 hardpoints.
6.	Armament	The Cargo Barge is unarmed.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. x30 triple Sandcaster turrets, grouped into three batteries each of 10 linked turrets The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft	The vessel carries no subcraft.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has an internal fuel tank containing 60 dTons of reaction mass for the Maneuver Drives. The hull is fitted with fuel scoops. These are routed via pumping equipment into a collapsible fuel tank, allowing the vessel to act as a Tanker if required. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr1,264.700. The ship is a standard design. Detailed architectural plans are widely available and no design fee is chargeable. If multiple examples of the design are ordered all of the ships in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price of each unit to MCr1,011.760.
11.	Construction Time	132 weeks (33 months) as standard. Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12.	Comments	Cargo capacity amounts to 2,300 dTons. The ship carries a collapsible fuel tank with a capacity of 2,300 dTons and a stowed volume of 23 dTons.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Cargo Barge is a low-tech design used for a variety of roles. The design is representative and a large number of variants exist, particularly with regard to the allotted weapons systems, onboard electronics, and the fit out of internal spaces.

• Cargo Barges are deployed by vessels such as the Civilian Ship Transporter.

Distant Fringe Vessels

The Distant Fringe is said to be a far spinward-rimward area inhabited by colonists and refugees originating on Terra. The region is extremely isolated, separated from the rest of Charted Space by vast, almost uncrossable rifts that were once broached by a system of calibration Points and the use of tankers. Those few academics within Charted Space who have found references to the Distant Fringe regard it as little more than a tall tale. Likewise, many of the inhabitants of the Distant Fringe believe the existence of Charted Space to be mythical.

Vessels originating within the Distant Fringe are very rarely encountered outside of the region. However, misjumps do occur and anomalies with bizarre spacetime and Jumpspace effects exist: as such, craft of this type are not entirely unknown within Charted Space.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Different examples of the design are known by many different names but all have very similar performance characteristics and capabilities.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Merchant Vessel - Transport - Bulk Cargo Carrier:

• Type TBD class Barge
  • Bluestone class Cargo Barge
  • Rysos class Battle Barge

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science