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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: U.S.S. Wisconsin
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Date: 12 Aug 90 21:43:07 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: voder!nsc!dtg.nsc.com!worden@decwrl.dec.com (Dennis Worden)
>I am interested in the fourth Iowa Class Battleship, the 
>USS Wisconsin.  The other three have been recommissioned,
>The Iowa, New Jersey and Missouri, but I haven't heard
>anything about the Wisconsin.

I dimly recall that Wisconsin was mothballed in a damaged state after
a collision (?), and recommissioning her would require major repairs.
This would explain her being left to last.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry