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From: greg@ncelvax.UUCP (Gregory K. Ramsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Naval vessel naming conventions
Summary: Some CGs were DLG
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Date: 8 Nov 89 04:40:50 GMT
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From: greg@ncelvax.UUCP (Gregory K. Ramsey)
In article <11070@cbnews.ATT.COM>, nelson_p@apollo.com writes:
> 
>   The cruiser that was accidentally bombed in the Indian Ocean was
>   the Reeves, which sounds like a person's name.  But it was a cruiser,
>   right?  Is there a city called Reeves, somewhere?  And I seem to 
>   recall that we're also naming submarines after places sometimes, too.

If my memory serves me right, the Reeves was originally
commissioned as a DLG, (Destroyer Leader, Guided Missle) which
was a larger than normal Destroyer (for it's time) which when
they realigned Destroyer and Cruiser classes some years ago it
was placed in the CG (Cruiser, Guided Missle) pool.

So there is a reasonable excuse for not fitting the pattern
this time.

SSBNs (Ballistic Missle Subs) are supposed to be named after
states now (Ohio class) since we are not building new
battleships now.  They started naming SSNs (attack subs) after
major cities, (Los Angeles class), but there are so many
exceptions nowadays that I don't think you can really make a
case for any pattern any more.

Greg

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