Ravager's Breadth



The Ravager is the first of three Orcish man-o-war ships, the project being deemed a failure as all three ships eventually were disposed of. However, the Ravager managed to be repurposed by the High-Captain Tek'aru before it went under the waves to join her brothers on the sea floor.

Origins
The Ravager was not actually made in Bilgewater Bay, unlike her sister-ships. She was launched and created at Dragonmaw Port with both orcish and goblin designs in mind. She launched several weeks before the Fall of Deathwing, and served as a gunship in the Fall of Theramore. Captained by Go'tuk Bloodmane, the Ravager is the biggest of the man-o-wars to be produced by Orcish hands, and also the highest scoring with thirteen total Alliance downings.

Go'tuk Bloodmane was an esteemed orcish captain, beloved by his crew for both his tenacity, ferocity, and simple leadership. However, his downfall was his brashness, as he altered an order directly from Garrosh to dock at the northern port in Jade Forest. From there, he attempted to assist the defense forces in Grosh'ar Point, in which he failed, and met the Alliance warfleet head on as he attempted to sail back to his port-of-call.

Batteling for nearly two hours with the Alliance warfleet, the Ravager finally sucame to her wounds, her masts broken and gundecks decimated. However, rather than risk capture, Go'tuk slaughtered his crew and took his own life. Seeing as this titan of a vessel was indeed a mighty ship, the Alliance fleet under command of Admiral Taylor, left the Ravager to rot as testimony to the Alliance naval might.

With this stroke of sheer luck, the High-Captain had privateers bring the vessel back to Stormwind to undergo triage repairs

Damage Recieved
The Ravager was heavily beaten as it returned to Stormwind, the rear-most hull completely holed and blown open from the powder stores being exploded. This caused the towing to be extremely tedious and dangerous, as at times, the ship nearly capsized. This problem was quelled as three of the four privateer crafts hauled the vessel from the sides, rather than foremost front. As well, the three masts of the Ravager were snapped and splintered, their sails also completely gone.

To worsen her shape, the bow of the Ravager was mangled and bent, plenty of cannonballs tearing apart her stream-lined ram to the point the frontal armor plates were hanging on - literally - only four bolts. This also caused a speed decrease in the towing, making the calculated two-week voyage take three.

To end it's terrible damage was the fact the gundeck was completely blown out and charred, old glames leaving their mark on the floors of the craft. It was brittle, at this point, the timber all but charcoal from the fires.

Layout
Like most of the Orcish crafts, the Ravager had a standard design of armored hull and wide storing capacity, but differed in many ways at the same time. Unlike her cousins, the vessel was monolithic with nearly five floors of ship. They are as followed: The Ravager's hieght was titanic, the middle of the ram, the inward curve, being the hieght of the tallest Alliance destroyer stern. This meant the ship's own stern was double that of an Alliance destroyer, and it's breadth being that of one-and-a-half skyships. The length of the craft was also double that of a destroyer, clocking in the Ravager at 5,261 tons.
 * 1) Main deck, where the sailing and boarding was done.
 * 2) Gun-deck Alpha, housing the first line of 57 guns.
 * 3) Gun-deck Bravo, housing the second line of 57 guns.
 * 4) Gun-deck Charlie, housing the third line of 57 guns.
 * 5) Cargo storage.

On both starboard and prot sides, there were portholes 21" above the waterline, one-hundred each flank, for oarmen. This, including the engine that was located in the bottom of the stern, and the triple masts, gave the Ravager a high speed of twenty-eight knots in full tilt and a good wind.

Made to house 342 guns (171 each flank on three floors), the Ravager was not a ship to engage from the sides -- or rear, for that matter. In the stern, just above the Captian's quarters, were two 125mm (standard gun calliber for the Ravager that fired strictly heat shot. These shots would not only rip through wood, but ignite anything flamable in pitch-fueled flame.

In conclusion, the bow of the vessel was also repaired and remade. Sharpened and reinforced, the ramming device was capable of splitting an Alliance destroyer easily if it got in it's way.

Defenses
The Ravager was made even more safe for the crew with the following: In all, the Ravager has been altered immensely from it's original design, but also remained constant in majority design. The craft is apart of the Onyx Airfleet and in current service of the Will of Iron.
 * Ghost Iron hull reinforcment beams: these beams helped make the ravager even sturdier at almost no extra weight, to the point it could run aground and suffer little hull damage.
 * Ghost Iron hull casing: unlike the cousins of the man-o-war, the craft was fully armored and encased in the metal, nearly six inches thick at it's thinnest point, and eight at it's strongest, the bow.
 * "Safe" black powder: typical to skyship gunpowder, this substance could only be set off by an explosion from typical black powder, meaning a direct flame will not set off the charge if fire was to hit the powder storage.
 * Lifeboats and lifeballoons: compeltely rare on all Horde vessels, the craft was equipped with ten lifeboats above the stern of the ship and five balloons on the stern (all of which were encased in steel) in the event of a hull breach.