Songbird class Ship's Boat
Songbird class Ship's Boat | |
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Distant Fringe Vessel | |
Type: M Liner | |
Category | Smallcraft |
Size | 40 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Cone Hull |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–9 |
Engineering | |
Computer | None |
Jump | J-0 |
Maneuver | 4 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 1 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 1 |
Seats | 50 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 1 |
High/Mid Passengers | 50 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 0 Tons |
Fuel tank | 1.3 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Distant Fringe |
Price | |
Cost | MCr26.275 |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | M-4A40 |
Universal Ship Profile | M–0204410–030000–00000–0 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
Designer | Ade Stewart |
Design System | High Guard |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Stewart |
The Songbird class Ship's Boat is a TL–9 civilian smallcraft used as a Ship's Boat.
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
Description (Specifications)
The Ship’s Boat is designed to rapidly ferry passengers and incidental cargoes between locations. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.
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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 craft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (thousands of tons) when necessary. [1]
Basic Ship Characteristics [2] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage | The Ship's Boat is constructed using a 40 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving improved atmospheric performance enhanced by its onboard gravitic systems.
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2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: 1
Accommodations There is 1 small stateroom. This serves as an office, galley or medical bay as necessary and contains a small fresher. There are x50 passenger acceleration couches. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. The vessel has full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance | The vessel mounts a Maneuver-4 drive and a Power Plant-4, giving performance of 4-G acceleration and producing 1.6 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 4. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient to give the power plant approximately 3 weeks duration.
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4. | Electronics | The cockpit contains an acceleration couch and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 Computer: no backup computer is installed.
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5. | Hardpoints | x1 hardpoint. |
6. | Armament | The Ship's Boat is generally unarmed. |
7. | Defenses | The hull is unarmored.
x1 triple Sandcaster turret, forming its own battery.
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8. | Craft | The vessel carries no subcraft. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1.3 dTons.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr26.275.
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11. | Construction Time | 24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard.
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12. | Comments | If the passenger couches are removed the craft has a cargo capacity of up to 25 dTons. |
History & Background (Dossier)
An ubiquitous design used throughout the Distant Fringe, the Ship's Boat is fast, durable and robust. 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.
Selected Variant Types & Classes
51 Representative Freighter (R) Classes
Civilian Ship - Freighter - Smallcraft - Type R Freighter
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C
D
E
F
G
H
- Haddox class Merchant Cruiser
- Hercules class Cargo Transport
- Hummingbird class Courier
- Hummock class Replenishment Ship
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K
L
- Last Armada class Heavy Transport
- Leo class Ship's Boat
- Leviathan class Merchant Cruiser
- Liz Zhorka class Light Trader
- Logos Minos class Fleet Scout
M
O
P
- Panam Ajax class Logistics Transport
- Panther class Repair Vessel
- Pegasus class Bulk Cargo Carrier
- Pinnace
- Prosperity class Freighter
R
S
- Ship's Boat
- Shuttle
- Siyuihwye class Armored Trader
- Solostar class Far Trader
- Suluru class Mercantile Carrier
- Susa class Cargo Carrier
- Swift Dreams class Colonial Transport
T
- Three Sisters class Heavy Jump Transport
- Triad class Merchant
- Type AT class Freighter
- Type RAX class Protected Merchant
- Type TC(S) class Free Trader
- Type TI class Merchant
- Type TJ class Merchant
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References
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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules:
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.