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From: paul@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Paul Bailes)
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Subject: Re: Biggest WWII battle ship
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Date: 31 Jul 90 02:32:51 GMT
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From: paul@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Paul Bailes)

raymond%europa@uunet.UU.NET (Raymond Man) writes:




>I think that is correct, but Tirpitz might still be the largest battleship
>afloat at that time because, I think the St. Nazaire raid was in 1943,
>when Yamato was not yet commissioned.

Yamato was at Midway, mid-42. So there!

>I think Yamato is considered as the biggest battleship in WWII although
>her sister ship Musashi(sp?) was about as big. However, the biggest
>WARSHIP in WWII is Shinano, which was designed as a battleship but
>hastily converted to a flap top after Midway. She was sink by a US sub
>during a transfer voyage before it was commissioned.

What data (displacement etc.)?

Paul Bailes

[mod.note:  Breyer, in _Battleships and Battlecruisers, 1905-1970_,
lists the Shinano carrier version as about 1,000 tons lighter in all
configurations than the Yamato and Musashi. - Bill ]