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Leuf wrote:
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:18:23 -0500, Guess who
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Also since when are submarine hulls round? I'm not sure of the exact
profile, but it tapers a bit towards the top I thought.
Since the 50s. USS Albacore. They may have the top flattened, but
surely it's easier to turn it round and then flatten the top if that's
what's called for.

I suspect that the pressure hull is of a circular cross-section and the
flat deck is built on top not unlike a deck one might build off of the
side
of a house.

Exactly. Round hulls shrink as you go deeper. I'd no care to see, in
person, what happens to an oval cross section hull.
Joe