🛠️ Ship Overview
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[*] [b]Name:[/b] Forceful
[*] [b]Year Built:[/b] 1925
[*] [b]Fate:[/b] Scrapped 2023-24
[*] [b]Type:[/b] Steam-powered tugboat
[*] [b]Purpose:[/b] Harbor towing, ship maneuvering, coastal assistance
[*] [b]Powerplant:[/b] Coal-fired boiler driving a triple-expansion steam engine
[*] Length: 36.50m (119.7 ft)
[*] Beam: 8.0m (26.2 ft)
[*] Draught: 4.08 m (13.4 ft)
[*] Propulsion: 3 cylinder triple expansion steam engine
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🎮 Controls & Operation
Control Element
Function
[b]A / D Keys[/b]
Steer port (left) or starboard (right)
[b]Engine Telegraph[/b]
Set speed: Full Ahead, Half Ahead, Stop, Reverse
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🔥 Steam Startup Sequence
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[*] Turn the [b]Boiler Key[/b] to light the firebox.
[*] Move the [b]Airflow Lever[/b] to “Full” to increase oxygen and fuel burn rate.
[*] Go to first deck and turn on the power, just flip all the breakers to on
[*] Monitor boiler pressure and prepare to move the ship via the [b]Telegraph[/b].
[*] Use [b]A/D keys[/b] to steer as you navigate.
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some history on this ship
So I began work on this ship around April of 2023. I had the ship "completed" about a week into it, but it never felt "quite right," so I put it off for a while. I decided to pick it up again for a little bit in 2024, but I realized the entire ship was broken due to how steam engines work. So I gave up on it because I knew the ship would require a complete overhaul. Well, here comes August of 2025. I finally wanted to finish this and get it up. I started to do extensive research on what this ship looks like on the outside and how it functions. I can't find any photos of the inside. I know the boiler is wrong, but the firebox is too big to make it realistic, so it will do. I redid almost the entire ship and added tons of detail. I was shocked to see and find out during this process that the ship was scrapped in 2024. I started building this ship looking at photos of it at the museum, only to find out by the time I finished this ship it would no longer exist, and now it remains as a memory preserved here on Stormworks.
some pieces of a donor ship remain from ilp0tt1's Jaimelynn the ship shares very little of my forceful and i put months of work into this ship which will not be invalidated
