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  1. 2019-11-17, 02:11 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #24
    Jan Mattys
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    Default Re: Favorite Battleship Movies?

    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about ships to dispute it.
    Well, the USS Missouri weghts 41.000 tons, which probably means around 50-55.000 tons full. That should explain the sheer impossibility of

    a- bringing it to an almost full stop with a simple anchor in a matter of seconds. The most reasonable outcome would just be that the anchor would snap like a thread.

    b- turning it sideways using the anchor as a pin. Even if the chain didn't break, the anchor would just drag along the ocean floor. And even if (somehow) it did manage to stop the ship, the bow of a vessel like that is not intended for that type of sideway force and would likely break off.

    Really, 50.000+ tons weight an awful lot :)
    Last edited by Jan Mattys; 2019-11-17 at 02:19 AM.
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