Talk:Sulivan (1782 EIC ship)
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Acad Ronin in topic Impossible length
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Impossible length edit
It is impossible that this ship was 434 meters long. That would make it about 300 meters longer than the longest wooden ship ever built, the Wyoming - a ship built 200 years later, with a metal frame that had not been invented yet in 1798, and that actually sunk due to the structural problems of being such a large ship (mostly) made of wood. The claimed length of the keel makes me think that the original author misplaced a point and it was actually 43.4 meters long, which would make it average for a merchant ship of the era, but I cannot check the original source.--Menah the Great (talk) 05:00, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
- Fixed. Acad Ronin (talk) 12:45, 13 July 2018 (UTC)