(May 13, 2014 at 2:14 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 13, 2014 at 12:41 pm)Chuck Wrote: Even Nelson's Victory, one of the largest ships in the world 300 years after Columbus, and home to a crew of 800, was still unbelieveably small to modern maritime sensibilities.
The victory was only as long as a typical modern big containership is wide.
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.
Yet another comparison....
The 60s vintage Sturgeon class submarine I served on was about 70' longer and displaced 400 more tons than HMS Victory.
