Re: [FT] Scale in Full Thrust

At 9:01 AM -0700 6/6/01, David Griffin wrote:

>
>Doesn't this make for small ships in the
>Tuffleyverse relative to some other genre
>universes? A 250 Mass SDN would be 25,000
>tons. I've seen various ships described in
>various genres up to millions of tons.

Not very big. I've already resigned myself to the principle that 
Honor Harrington SDNS are in the 2-3000 Mass realm in FT terms.

>How much does a big carrier like the Nimitz
>or a battleship like the New Jersey or the
>Yamato weigh?

The Iowas are 52,000 tons displacement, standard and 58,000 tons, full
load.

The planned Montana class BBs (never built) would have been 65,000 
tons, standard and 70,500 tons, full load (12 18" guns over the Iowas 
9)

Bismark was 45,000 tons, standard and 51,000 tons full load.

The Yamato's were 68,000 tons, standard and 71,600 tons, full load.

Nimitz CVs run 81,600 tons, standard and 91,500 tons, full load.

Mind you this is a measure of the weight of water that the ship 
displaces. It  is in effect the same thing, but it's not the "weight" 
of the ship.

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