his natural distrust of aircraft meant that the only means left open to him was by sea , utilising his rag tag navy , but there was a slight problem , one of the frigates had just sunk at its mooring , the second ones engine had blown up when the crew tried to start it , and a witch doctor had just put a hex on the third frigate although the witch doctor concerned also just happened to be the third frigates chief stoker , perhaps there was a tad of self-preservation in his incantations , definitely time to think about modernising his maritime force , so through an intermediary ( who was later to become his successor ) malcolm contacted a shipyard in germany , and they dispatched a team of naval architects post haste to design him his new floating bank vault , which , so as not to look too suspicious , would look like a destroyer , but that was where the similarity would end .