# Baker’s Dozen III **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093 "2022-08-22T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 364
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7261 "2025-04-13T18:32:32Z")
**Museum ships** 1. USS _Constitution_, Charlestown, Mass. 2. USS _Wisconsin_ at Nauticus Museum; Norfolk, VA 3. Draken _Harald Hårfagre_, Jørpeland, Norway 4. HMCS _Sackville_, Halifax, NS 5. USS _Turner Joy_, Bremerton, WA 6. Battleship _Texas_, Galveston, TX 7. USS _Constellation_, Baltimore, MD 8. IJNS _Mikasa,_ Yokosuka, Japan 9. _U-505_ (German Type IX-C U-boat), Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL 10. CCGS _Alexander Henry_, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada A retired Canadian Coast Guard ship. It used to be a combination museum and B&B in Kingston on Lake Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7262 "2025-04-14T02:58:10Z")
**Museum ships** 1. USS _Constitution_, Charlestown, Mass. 2. USS _Wisconsin_ at Nauticus Museum; Norfolk, VA 3. Draken _Harald Hårfagre_, Jørpeland, Norway 4. HMCS _Sackville_, Halifax, NS 5. USS _Turner Joy_, Bremerton, WA 6. Battleship _Texas_, Galveston, TX 7. USS _Constellation_, Baltimore, MD 8. IJNS _Mikasa,_ Yokosuka, Japan 9. _U-505_ (German Type IX-C U-boat), Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL 10. CCGS _Alexander Henry_, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 11. HMS _Victory_, Portsmouth, England, UK Lord Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar, now in drydock but still flagship of the First Sea Lord: [HMS Victory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory) ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7263 "2025-04-14T15:43:42Z")
**Museum ships** 1. USS _Constitution_, Charlestown, Mass. 2. USS _Wisconsin_ at Nauticus Museum; Norfolk, VA 3. Draken _Harald Hårfagre_, Jørpeland, Norway 4. HMCS _Sackville_, Halifax, NS 5. USS _Turner Joy_, Bremerton, WA 6. Battleship _Texas_, Galveston, TX 7. USS _Constellation_, Baltimore, MD 8. IJNS _Mikasa,_ Yokosuka, Japan 9. _U-505_ (German Type IX-C U-boat), Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL 10. CCGS _Alexander Henry_, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 11. HMS _Victory_, Portsmouth, England, UK 12. USS _Kidd_, Baton Rouge, LA ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7264 "2025-04-14T17:52:50Z")
**Museum ships** 1. USS _Constitution_, Charlestown, Mass. 2. USS _Wisconsin_ at Nauticus Museum; Norfolk, VA 3. Draken _Harald Hårfagre_, Jørpeland, Norway 4. HMCS _Sackville_, Halifax, NS 5. USS _Turner Joy_, Bremerton, WA 6. Battleship _Texas_, Galveston, TX 7. USS _Constellation_, Baltimore, MD 8. IJNS _Mikasa,_ Yokosuka, Japan 9. _U-505_ (German Type IX-C U-boat), Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL 10. CCGS _Alexander Henry_, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 11. HMS _Victory_, Portsmouth, England, UK 12. USS _Kidd_, Baton Rouge, LA 13. USS _Silversides_, Muskegon, MI **Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7265 "2025-04-14T18:55:02Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7266 "2025-04-14T19:02:52Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India [Statue of Unity - List of tallest statues - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_statues#/media/File:Statue_of_Unity.jpg) max zoom this photo and look at the statue’s fourth toe to really grasp the scale of this thing ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7267 "2025-04-14T21:28:57Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 356 feet end-to-end, making it the largest man-made object in space. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7268 "2025-04-14T22:48:12Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China The list is supposed to be Really BIG man made things not moderately large ones. At 13,170 miles long the Great Wall truly is Really BIG. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7269 "2025-04-14T23:22:52Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7270 "2025-04-14T23:44:39Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) 7. Iran Mall, Tehran, Iran According to Wikipedia, it’s [the mall with highest “gross leasable area,”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall#World's_largest_malls) and by a pretty good margin. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7271 "2025-04-15T01:10:49Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) 7. Iran Mall, Tehran, Iran 8. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7272 "2025-04-15T01:37:38Z")
**Really BIG man made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) 7. Iran Mall, Tehran, Iran 8. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt 9. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7273 "2025-04-15T03:17:50Z")
**Really BIG man-made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) 7. Iran Mall, Tehran, Iran 8. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt 9. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE 10. [The Chunnel, between UK and France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel) 31 miles long, and 246 feet below the sea bed at its lowest point. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7274 "2025-04-15T05:33:19Z")
**Really BIG man-made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) 7. Iran Mall, Tehran, Iran 8. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt 9. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE 10. [The Chunnel, between UK and France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel) 11. Big Brutus, largest land moving vehicle, a steam shovel for coal mining. SE Kansas ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7275 "2025-04-15T14:15:10Z")
**Really BIG man-made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) 7. Iran Mall, Tehran, Iran 8. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt 9. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE 10. [The Chunnel, between UK and France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel) 11. Big Brutus, largest land moving vehicle, a steam shovel for coal mining. SE Kansas 12. [Terex Titan truck, Sparwood, Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terex_33-19_%22Titan%22) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7276 "2025-04-15T19:07:19Z")
**Really BIG man-made things** 1. NASA’s [Vehicle Assembly Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building), Kennedy Space Center, FL 2. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA 3. The Statue of Unity, Vadadora, Gujarat, India 4. The International Space Station, outer space 5. The Great Wall of China 6. Hughes H-4 Hercules (a.k.a., “The Spruce Goose”) 7. Iran Mall, Tehran, Iran 8. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt 9. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE 10. [The Chunnel, between UK and France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel) 11. Big Brutus, largest land moving vehicle, a steam shovel for coal mining. SE Kansas 12. [Terex Titan truck, Sparwood, Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terex_33-19_%22Titan%22) 13. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel New category: **Types of bird** 1. Penguin ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7277 "2025-04-15T19:14:15Z")
**Types of bird** 1. Penguin 2. Warbling vireo ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7278 "2025-04-15T19:19:16Z")
**Types of bird** 1. Penguin 2. Warbling vireo 3. Toucan ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7279 "2025-04-15T19:43:18Z")
**Types of bird** 1. Penguin 2. Warbling vireo 3. Toucan 4. Bald eagle Love 'em! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7280 "2025-04-15T19:51:01Z")
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