Keep in mind, the plans everyone talks about for the Montana were not the final designs, merely what Norman Friedman arbitrarily decided that the US would have built (nobody actually has the builders plans anymore). The above linked design came after the plans Friedman claimed, and kept getting modified until the end of the war (even well after they had been canceled)... ending up a 1150 ft long, 137 ft wide, 33kt, 98,000 ton monster (just small enough [length wise] to fit through the new Panama Canal locks) with 12 x 18in guns and carrying what were effectively Seaplane Fighters (modified Curtis SC Seahawks) for indigenous (but limited) fighter cover.
There's a few height chart posts out there. One of the things I remember is that if you convert meters to centimeters, then destroyers are in the 4 foot range expected of a young girl, while cruisers are the expected teenager heights, but then battleships are LOL HUEG!
Making that same conversion, here, Connie's a "mere" 7' 3", while Iowa's a ceiling-bumping 8' 10" giant.
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