User blog comment:TheAlphatheOmega/Rise of the Megalodon/@comment-25373667-20150511193839/@comment-12161342-20150511201318

Actually, it's for practical reasons. It gives a good size comparison, it isn't really in use by any navies so it doesn't look odd appearing next to multiple navies' ships, it's not too fast, so I don't overshoot where I want to be when taking a pic from it, and its one of the very few ships I have that isn't oversized or slow.

It also does look cool.