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To: neversweat
The boats I was on were 'boomers' named after dead presidents. They were the biggest submersibles we had in those days. The Russians had bigger, but even my boats seemed almost as big as the Missouri when she tied up across the pier one time. The Texas would dwarf those boats, and I suspect even the Missouri..

Actually the Virginia class is much smaller than the Ohios and Typhoons, about the same size as the Los Angeles class and your old "Dead Presidents" boats. Although not all were Presidents, one was the Robert E. Lee SSBN 600. Imagine trying to name a boat that today!.

length x beam
Missouri 394 x 72 feet.
Theodore Roosevelt 382 X 33 feet
Ohio 560 x 42 feet
Los Angeles 360 x 33 feet
SeaWolf 353 x 35 feet
Virginia 377 x 32 feet

45 posted on 07/20/2004 10:34:36 AM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: El Gato
Missouri 394 x 72 feet.

Ooops, wrong Missouri, those numbers are for BB-11, laid down around 1900. The Missouri were the Japanese surrender instrument was signed was laid down in 1941, the last US Battleship.

Missouri (BB-63) 887 X 108 feet.

46 posted on 07/20/2004 10:42:00 AM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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