Any question answered...

Interesting, 1200000kg is also about the yield load for a 5" diameter 4130 steel bar.

Odd coincidence of the day; if you attached cables of the same number and gauge as her main battery to HMS Belfast, they would just about be strong enough to lift her out of the water.

pretty amazing though when you consider that Dyneema is just(!?) another form of polythene :)

Albeit an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene...