Re: [FH] Dollars per credit
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:30:30 -0400
Subject: Re: [FH] Dollars per credit
>Well.. FB1 says Mass 250 = 25,000 t not 250,000.
Okay, our errors of magnitude cancel out. :-}
>The FB1 masses make the ships very much the same size as ships
around the turn
>of the 19th century. Have a squizz at Jane's Fish & Chips of
1905, and you'll
>see Ships of the Line are usually about 12,500 tonnes, Armoured
Cruisers about
>10,000, Protected Cruisers from 6-8,000, Scout Cruisers 4,000,
and torpedo boats/destroyers
>anything from 100 tonnes up.
Snippage.
I've often thought that 1900-1915 was the feel Jon was aiming
for.