On 04Jan2019 1333, Evyn MacDude wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 4:32 PM Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <
> xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
>> The Trav 'era' that is used is, IMO, a critical factor.
>> The original, CT, era started off with fairly small ships, both commercial
>> & military.
>>
>
> Yes, and no. One needs to look at the maritime model a little closer. i.e.
> a 1000dt cargo ship is pretty big in a lot of historical shipping sizes.
> Thus the range of sizes available in Book two allows for some interesting
> correlations.

A DTon is ~14 m^3, which is ~500 cubic feet. 100 cubic feet is the
traditional shipping 'ton', which makes a DTon about five tons. The
Liberty ships of WWII were a decent size at the time, though small by
later standards, and could ship about 10,000 tons. Allowing for fuel,
machinery, etc. a LBB3 equivalent is probably a 3000 DTon ship.

For warships, LBB3 ships map reasonably well to WWI ships, aside from
large LBB3 ships being forced to be slow.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>