(May 13, 2014 at 2:27 pm)Chuck Wrote:(May 13, 2014 at 2:14 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Put in another perspective, the flight deck of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is large enough to accommodate at least a dozen ships-of-the-line like HMS Victory, perhaps more.
Many more. You can arrange a row of 6 HMS Victories (minus the bow sprit) end to end on the flight deck of USS Nimitz, without any parts hanging over the bow and stern of the Nimitz. You can also arrange 5 HMS Victories side by side across the widest part of Nimitz's flight deck.
Yeah, I thought of that - the flight deck is 250 feet wide at it's widest point, but substantially narrower at the ends, and there is of course the superstructure to deal with. I didn't feel like drawing it out to be more precise.
I figured it could be 20 or more, so "at least a dozen" worked.
