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Old 01-16-08, 05:53 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Kapitan
Typhoon:

654feet 4 inchs long
82 feet 2inch wide
33.3 feet draft

33,600 tonnes displacement surfaced
47,980 tonnes displacement submerged

by far the biggest submarine yet built.
Well, let's see, that's:

128 feet longer, about the same beam and almost 15,000 tons heavier than the 1906 battleship HMS Dreadnought;

Only 233 feet shorter than USS Iowa.




Pretty big for a boat.
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