Airships Conquer the Skies Guide

In the early days of Suspendium powered flight, ships relied on tanks of suspendium to raise their great bulk into the Sky, Many City-states (Now Nations as of, 1903) Began constructing fleets of small, Aerostat style craft armed with minimal armament such as Muskets or the odd rifle and relying on a suspendium tank and sails to propell these vessels through the azure, these primitive vessels fought the first Air wars, wresting control of the Skies over the region, Some of these primitive vessels became the First ships of His Majesty's Air Navy.
By 1865, A new form of Suspendium powered flight had came in the form of a Suspendium Drive which allowed Airships to contain their Suspendium inside of the Ship's hull, making it less vulnerable to small arms fire, this Step up in Airship evolution was also helped by the invention of a Suitable propulsion system the Steam Engine and the twin propellor invented by Jakub Poruchjeck, Who sold his twin propellor design to yards across the world, before long, nearly Every ship sported a Poruchjeck Propeller. It wasn't long before Companies such as the Schofield company and the Madruz Corporation held strangleholds on the Engine and Suspendium drive market, driving prices of both equipment and maitenence through the Roof, this affected the the Embryonic Cytringian Air Navy, forcing it to scrap to of it's newest vessels to pay for the maintence costs to their newest asset.
Another development of the Time was Pressurised Suspendium tanks, which allowed a ship to reach a Higher ceiling and could be safely stowed within a Vessels Interior (Hopefully.) allowing it to armoured and Protected from Arms fire, This has become one of the most used types of Lift Utillised by the Naval Service.
1890 Saw a rapid advance in Gunnery, seeing the Modern Breech loader enter service with many navies, and also saw the such weapons as the Deck-mounted variant and the now staple armament of many Cytringan Flyers, the Deck Mortar,a Versatille weapon utillised by all ships of His Majesty's Air Navy, this also saw a rapid change in Suspendium Flyer Design, which saw Ships shift from wooden armour to Steel plate and wrought Iron, Sails were dropped in favour of Propellers and Steam Engines, However, the Cytringian Navy is one of the few which rely on both.