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This is a space game, not a naval simulator.  The ships are not in water.  If they were in the water, then using only 2 dimensions to judge which is biggest might be appropiate if the displacement of the vessel is not availabile.  Space craft are more comparable to aircraft than sea going vessels.  Air craft are judged usually by longest wingspan, longest length, larget volume or largest carrying capacity.  The qualifier used in the statement 4th largest by volume is the words "by volume".  Not by length, not by width, not by height, not by weight, but by volume.  If the volume of the ship is the 4th largest out of all of the playable ships than the statement 4th largest by volume is correct.  If the statement had been fourth largest by lenght it would be incorrect.  Unless there is an international naval standard that says a ship is larger than another ship using some key metrics, and that naval standard is referenced as how the ship was determined to be the Xth largest in the statement (such as 3rd largest by naval standard XRQ547), then the statement that the ship is fourth largest by volume is more correct as it gives how it was judged to be so and can be checked to be so.  Removal of factual descriptions and substitutions for personal bias is not a good edit of this wikia.