Thanks for the great replies everybody, and KRJ, great idea, but my budget
is LESS than a billion dollars, unfortunately.

But that does bring up an interesting question, what's the biggest ship
that's been sent to the bottom by seas? Not icebergs, U-boats, or
collisions, but by good ol' Mother Nature, other than turning the Cape and
meeting up with the rocks, just out on the open blue water. Will have to
look into that...

John

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A 1000+ foot carrier is safe in any ocean

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"John Reimer" wrote:

Thanks for the great replies everybody, and KRJ, great idea, but my budget
is LESS than a billion dollars, unfortunately.

But that does bring up an interesting question, what's the biggest ship
that's been sent to the bottom by seas? Not icebergs, U-boats, or
collisions, but by good ol' Mother Nature, other than turning the Cape and
meeting up with the rocks, just out on the open blue water. Will have to
look into that...


'Derbyshire' ?

Molesworth

But that does bring up an interesting question, what's the biggest ship
that's been sent to the bottom by seas? Not icebergs, U-boats, or
collisions, but by good ol' Mother Nature, other than turning the Cape and
meeting up with the rocks, just out on the open blue water. Will have to
look into that...

This typhoon and it's effect is interesting, but no ships as big as
"Derbyshire".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halsey%27s_Typhoon

John Wrote:
"But that does bring up an interesting question, what's the biggest ship
that's been sent to the bottom by seas? Not icebergs, U-boats, or
collisions, but by good ol' Mother Nature, other than turning the Cape
and meeting up with the rocks, just out on the open blue water. Will
have to look into that..."

Sometime during WWII the US Navy ran into a fierce typhoon in the
Pacific that sunk a lot of their ships. Don't know the specifics on
which types though.

Red