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What is the largest ship that has ever been transported over land?
Posted by: MCCyT ()
Date: September 15, 2015 07:51PM

In other words, would it be possible to raise the Titanic and turn it into a museum in say, Ashburn?

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Re: What is the largest ship that has ever been transported over land?
Posted by: studious researcher ()
Date: September 15, 2015 07:57PM

I smell a master's thesis.
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Re: What is the largest ship that has ever been transported over land?
Posted by: wWpb7 ()
Date: September 15, 2015 07:59PM

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Re: What is the largest ship that has ever been transported over land?
Posted by: LEHwy ()
Date: September 15, 2015 08:28PM

The Titanic is in two large pieces, and a bunch of small pieces, and it's structurally holding together by force of habit more than anything else. "Raising" it is impossible. Theoretically, you could cut up the remaining structure, bring each piece up one by one, and piece it back together. There'd be a lot of holes and missing stuff. And you'd need about a hundred billion dollars.

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Re: What is the largest ship that has ever been transported over land?
Posted by: Ship enthusiast ()
Date: September 15, 2015 08:28PM

The USS Megan Toohey. A poorly designed ship with asymmetrical weight balance; it quickly gained the nickname "land whale."

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Re: What is the largest ship that has ever been transported over land?
Posted by: udFuj ()
Date: September 15, 2015 08:47PM

Ship enthusiast Wrote:
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> The USS Megan Toohey. A poorly designed ship with
> asymmetrical weight balance; it quickly gained the
> nickname "land whale."


Well I googled the USS Megan Toohey and Google just pointed to this thread. Jesus the Google spider crawls faster than ever now.

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Re: What is the largest ship that has ever been transported over land?
Posted by: cwCNv ()
Date: September 15, 2015 08:49PM

LEHwy Wrote:
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> The Titanic is in two large pieces, and a bunch of
> small pieces, and it's structurally holding
> together by force of habit more than anything
> else. "Raising" it is impossible. Theoretically,
> you could cut up the remaining structure, bring
> each piece up one by one, and piece it back
> together. There'd be a lot of holes and missing
> stuff. And you'd need about a hundred billion
> dollars.

Ok I was thinking with the ship in one piece. I guess the Titanic is out.

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