heres a seemingly obvious question (or not)

[Sailor Steve]

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.