On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Ethan McKinney <ethan.mckinney@gmail.com> wrote:

. . . so I'm just going to, say, make a Kinunir as if it's the size of an Atlantic-class heavy cruiser, and go from there. That should fit in even the Type S with fairly good detail.

Although I am admittedly math-challenged and comparing real world ships to Traveller ships is quite difficult (as many threads here attest), I think the Atlanta Class cruiser is rather a bit too small to model the 1200 dton Kinunir.

The Atlanta-class cruisers were 541 feet long, with 53', 10" beams. They had a 20.5 foot draft with a superstructure topping out some 90 feet above the waterline, for a total height from the keel to funnel top of ~110 feet. Note: I'm ignoring the masts, since they don't contribute much to overall volume.

For simplicity, lets consider that the overall shape of the real world cruiser amounts to two somewhat squashed cones, joined to each other at the base. The height of each cone equals half the ship's length, while the effective radius of the bases (were the cones to NOT be squashed) comes out to some 38.5 feet.

These numbers give the Atlanta Class a total volume of not quite 420,000 cubic feet or roughly 840 dtons. 

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