Jonathan_S wrote:[1] I believe you're alluding to this bit from IEH "Honor's cutter drifted through the enormous hatch of HMS Wayfarer's Number One Hold. The small craft was a tiny minnow against the vast, star-speckled maw of cargo doors which could easily have admitted a destroyer, and the hold they served was built to the same gargantuan scale." It doesn't clearly say that the hold was large enough to fit an entire destroyer; just that the doors were large enough and the hold was very large. But also, that hold was being modified with Warfarer's pod rails, so to carry enough pods the yard may well have modified the freighter to lengthen that hold, in addition to adding the rear cargo/pod doors and extending the hold (and pod rails) all the way to the aft end of the ship. In it's pre-conversion service the number one (rearmost?) hold might have been smaller than what's described here.
But at a minimum if you have to specify it was the number 1 hold that logically implies that she's subdivided into multiple holds; so at a minimum we know all it's cargo space isn't available to try to slip one warship into.[/size]
You’ll have to go argue with the Bu9 guys who spend an hour talking about this a few years ago, with slides and graphics. The ships are unbelievably huge.