From: dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose)
Subject: Re: Naval trivia
Organization: INEL EG&G Idaho
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:33:18 GMT


From dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose)

In article <BzB9L3.y8@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, CJohn Mace <zcjm0f@hou.amoco.com> writes:
> 
> 
> From CJohn Mace <zcjm0f@hou.amoco.com>
> 
> 
> I am in the need of some naval trivia, or just the answers to these 
> questions.
> 
> Submarines:  (two types, Ohio Class and Trident)
> 	1) approximate tonnage of displacement
> 	2) approximate dimensions
> 	3) classification  (boomer, attack, etc)
> 	4) date first set sail
> 
> [mod note -- I wasn't aware that the U.S. Navy had a Trident class sub.
> The 2 main classes I'm aware of at the current time are the Ohio, a Fleet
> Ballistic Missle (FBM) sub carrying the Trident D-5 SLBM, and the Los
> Angeles class attack sub 
> 
> Steve]

They are one and the same (i.e. USS Ohio class subs *are* Trident missile 
subs).  You have confused the class name (Ohio) and the missile type (Trident)
they carry, alot of people do since the US Navy uses both interchangabily.

> 
> Battlewagons: (heavily armored Iowa Class)
> 	1) number produced by the US
> 	2) date first set sail
> 	3) number active
> 	4) number scrapped
> 	5) number mothballed
> 
> [mod note -- 4 Iowas were built -- Iowa, Missouri, New Jersy, and
> Wisconson.  First sailed during WW-II (early 1944 or thereabouts).  I thing
> that during the Reagan years all 4 were re-commissioned, none were
> scrapped, and all 4 are heading back to the mothball fleet.  On a side
> note, does anybody out there have any information on what the U.S. Navy has
> in mothballs in the way of surface combatants?
> 
> Steve]
> 
> Carriers:  (E class WWII)
> 	1) number produced
> 	2) number active at the end of the war
> 	3) number sunk in action
> 
> [mod note -- The poster is either refering to the Enterprise class, which I
> think only 1 was built (the original U.S.S. Enterprise), but it may have
> been a member of another class, or the Essex class.  If he is refering the
> the Essex class, I don't think any of them were ever sunk in action
> 
> Steve]

Yes he is asking about the Essex class.  Some received tremendous damage due
to kamakazi attacks (USS Franklin I think is one to note)

> 
> I have heard contradictary information on the above and I figure that
> you guys will probably be a better source than what I am getting.  :-/
> 
> any help is greatly appreciated!
> cjohn mace
> zcjm0f@hou.amoco.com
> 	
>

The best source of info for current ships are "Jane's Fighting Ships" (of
course) and the annual US Naval Institute's _Proceedings_ Navy's of the World
which I believe lists all ship active and in "mothballs" but they call it 
something else (Inactive list?).

Good hunting....

Don Palmrose
"There are only two kinds of ships....  Those that project powere onto shore
and those that either support or protect the power projectors."






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