Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: sun!Central!uokmax!jkmedcal@uunet.UU.NET (Jeff K Medcalf) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Battleship repairs Message-ID: <7397@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 13 Jun 89 03:23:32 GMT References: <7365@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: No, it isn't really. Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Jeff K Medcalf >From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) > In today's paper, I saw a short item about the Battleship that recently >(7 weeks ago) had the turret explosion. It is supposed to be sailing to the >Meditterranean Sea for duty. Did they repair the damage that quickly? Or, >did they just clean up the mess and send the ship back to sea? Does anyone >out there have further details that they can provide publicly? The Iowa will not use her damaged turret during the cruise. It was a preplanned training cruise, and apparently the Navy is using the time for long-lead items for the turret repair. -- I dream I'm safe jkmedcal@uokmax.UUCP In my hotel womb Jeff Medcalf Soft and so nice It's a wonderful womb <-The Church, "Hotel Womb"