Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!gatech!amdcad!military From: ehr@uncecs.edu (Ernest H. Robl) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Navy vessel designation questions Message-ID: <27341@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 19 Sep 89 06:35:36 GMT Lines: 30 Approved: military@amdcad.amd.com From: Ernest H. Robl Thanks to all of you who emailed me responses to my inquiry about U.S. Navy ship numbering/identification. Most of you pointed out the same general things: -- "A" means auxilliary (non front-line combat) ships and is implied in the designation of ships. In other words, SR 6 really means ASR 6. -- Combat ships do not have type designations on hulls, only numbers; auxilliary ships do have the letter designation. -- Aviation ships (carriers, etc.) have the number on the island, rather than on the hull. -- The reason that some of the ships that I saw in Norfolk may not have had hull numbers is that (a) they may have been new; (b) they may have been in the process of being repainted with the numbers not applied yet; or (c) they may have been inactive ships. -- Janes -- available in most large libraries (Yes, I *do* work in a large library) has additional information on the various ship designations. -- Ernest My opinions are my own and probably not IBM-compatible.--ehr Ernest H. Robl (ehr@ecsvax) (919) 684-6269 w; (919) 286-3845 h Systems Specialist (Tandem System Manager), Library Systems, 027 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706 U.S.A.