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To: DPMD

A fully loaded Gearing class destroyer was about 3500 tons fully loaded. About 300 ft in length. Not a tiny ship but not large as ships go. A WW2 Battleship was about 45,000 tons.


33 posted on 05/22/2025 8:55:20 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Thank you. I imagine many of the destroyer escorts (DE) of WWII were an the smallish size too.


46 posted on 05/23/2025 11:06:25 AM PDT by DPMD
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