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Art by Ian Stead. Cover layout by Stephanie McAlea.


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A successful support vessel with a long service history, the Boyne-class was designed for use by the Royal Navy but was a very successful export even before the ship entered service, eventually serving in national navies, system navies, and defense forces across Clement Sector.

“I think we have an important role, someone has to keep providing stuff to throw at the bad guys.” - Leutnant Hannah Schmidt, Senior supply officer, HFS James Joyce, Wellington c2339 CE

The Boyne-class Replenishment Ship is the subject of Ships of Clement Sector 14 which will be available from Gypsy Knights Games on June 17.

Art by Ian Stead.

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Looking forward to this one.

Though if you could change the ship labels so you don't have to crane your neck sidewise... I dunno if anyone else does that out of habit, but there's plenty of screen real estate to fix that.
 
phavoc said:
Looking forward to this one.

Though if you could change the ship labels so you don't have to crane your neck sidewise... I dunno if anyone else does that out of habit, but there's plenty of screen real estate to fix that.

I will ask Ian to make a change if he can.

As an engineer the standard practice on plans is read from left when vertical. Much more natural that way.

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Here we see a trio of the Boone Space Navy's Strikemaster-class brigs traveling alongside a Boyne-class replenishment ship.

The Boyne can carry up to ninety tonnes of equipment and provisions within port and starboard cargo holds. A further sixty tonnes of munitions are also carried in port and cargo magazines just forward of each cargo bay. Loading and unloading access to both the cargo holds and magazines is via large internal doors and external cargo locks. Adjacent to the externals doors is the ship’s Underway Replenishment equipment. The Boyne can simultaneously supply two warships, one per side via UNREP.

If the situation warrants it, the large port and starboard cargo doors can also drop down and extend, forming access ramps which allow easy loading and unloading of each cargo hold. Normally though the load master will use the grav lifters carried on board if the Boyne lands on a planetary surface.

The Boyne-class replenishment ship is the subject of Ships of Clement Sector 14 which will be available from Gypsy Knights Games on June 17.

Art by Ian Stead.

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Here we see CNS Peter Osterhaus, a Boyne-class replenishment ship owned by the Cascadian Navy, near the gas giant Betonica in the Tlix system (Cascadia 0706). The Cascadian Navy operates two of these vessels.

By the time of the Collapse in 2331 thirty-five Boyne-class ships were in commission with five major national navies and in eight system defense forces within both Earth and Clement sectors. Of that total, there were eleven stationed in Clement Sector of which the Royal Navy had three, the Republic of Australia Navy had one (RAS Manoora), the Cascadian Navy had two, the Monroe System Navy had one and the United States Space Navy had four (one was later destroyed at Sophronius (Hub 0408) during the initial exchange between Swanson loyalists and the USSN ships supporting Admiral Manning.

In addition, there is also the civilian variant of the Boyne, the Aranui-class medium cargo vessel. The Aranui-class began as a side project in 2320 by Anderson and Felix Shipbuilders seeking to reduce design time and costs by tweaking an existing medium freighter size vessel. As they were licensed originally to provide full maintenance and refit and had a full set of design plans it was decided to produce a civilian version of the Boyne squarely aimed at small merchant shipping companies and wealthier owner/captains.

Even with fifty percent of the profit per ship going to the owners of the Boyne-class design in Earth sector, Anderson and Felix turned over enough per construction order to make the design a profitable one. Now, post- Collapse, they are quite content to pour one hundred percent of sale profits back into the company.
There are over forty of the Aranui-class cargo vessels in service scattered throughout the Clement Sector hauling cargo at the current time. Anderson and Felix currently construct two or three per year as orders.

Both the Boyne-class replenishment ship and the Aranui-class medium cargo vessel can be found in Ships of Clement Sector 14: Boyne-class Replenishment Ship which will be released on June 17.

Art by Ian Stead.

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