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None of these are mine. They were downloaded mainly from several NGs. My apologies to the OPs but I did not record their names. -- HP, aka Jerry "And, that's all I'm going to say about that" - Forrest Gump |
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schreef in bericht news None of these are mine. They were downloaded mainly from several NGs. My apologies to the OPs but I did not record their names. A tribute to Einstein?;-) -- Greetings Bouler (The Netherlands) |
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Bouler added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
A tribute to Einstein?;-) I would think so given that the aircraft carrier is a CVN (CV is the designation for an aircraft carrier, as you probably know, and N is for nuclear. The other two vessels appear to also be nukes. -- HP, aka Jerry "And, that's all I'm going to say about that" - Forrest Gump |
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"HEMI-Powered" wrote: Bouler added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... A tribute to Einstein?;-) I would think so given that the aircraft carrier is a CVN (CV is the designation for an aircraft carrier, as you probably know, and N is for nuclear. The other two vessels appear to also be nukes. The other two ships are USS LONG BEACH (CGN-9) and USS BAINBRIDGE (DLGN-25) which was later reclassified as a cruiser with hull number CGN-25. These three nuclear-powered ships made a round-the-world cruise without any logistic support (fuel, food, water, spare parts, etc.) None! The purpose of the cruise was to demonstrate the tremendous mobility and consequent global striking power of nuclear-powered surface warships. This is the reason they spelled out "E=mc2" with a formation of the crew on the flight deck of the Enterprise. For the cruise, they had the designation Task Force 1. This was in the early 1960s. The three ships were all built just before then: -Enterprise at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA -Long Beach at Bethlehem Steel Fore River Shipyard, Quincy Massachusetts; the shipyard was later purchased by Electric Boat and then by general Dynamics -Bainbridge I think was built at New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, where USS TRUXTUN (DLGN/CGN-35), the next of the DLGNs was built. ENTERPRISE, LONG BEACH and BAINBRIDGE were the first three nuclear-powered surface ships of the U. S. Navy. Later, after much argument and promotion by Admiral Rickover against the opposition of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, new nuclear-powered warships were built: The NIMITZ-class carriers, and the CALIFORNIA and VIRGINIA-class cruisers. These ships repeatedly demonstrated the advertised mobility and reach of nuclear-powered ships. During the Vietnam War, ENTERPRISE steamed from Norfolk, Virginia to the Gulf of Tonkin in 1966, at high speed, without stopping. On the day she arrived, she flew more air strikes than any aircraft carrier up to that time, and then remained on the line for at least 30 days before going into port, flying hundreds of sorties daily against targets in Vietnam. At the time of the seizure of the American Embassy in Teheran, the aircraft carrier NIMITZ, with nuclear-powered cruisers CALIFORNIA and TEXAS, was heading back to Norfolk, Virginia, after a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean. The three ships were sent instead to the Indian Ocean. They steamed around Africa and spent ten months in the Indian Ocean before finally heading back to Norfolk. Their transit from the Straights of Gibraltar into the Indian Ocean was completed at high speed, without stopping. They provided the first naval air striking power in the region. All the CGNs have been decommissioned since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The nuclear-powered aircraft carriers remain, and today nearly all of the American carriers in active service are nuclear-powered. -- Bill Collins For email, change "fake" to "earthlink" |
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