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From: waynea@cadnetix.COM (Wayne Angevine)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Coast Guard and Navy Information Wanted
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Date: 6 Nov 89 05:02:58 GMT
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From: waynea@cadnetix.COM (Wayne Angevine)

   I have two requests for information.  These are for model
   building and documentation purposes and for my general
   curiousity.

   I would like references to books showing the types of Coast
   Guard vessels in use from approximately WWII to the present.
   I'd prefer something a bit more entertaining than a Jane's,
   and a lot of color pictures would be helpful.

   Secondly, I'd like to know how naval vessels are classified.
   (Perhaps I should say "categorized.")  What, for example,
   makes a destroyer a destroyer, not a frigate or a cruiser?

   Thanks.