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From: gunter@antlia.cc.uwa.OZ.AU (Gunter Ahrendt)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: seawolf submarine
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Date: 17 Nov 90 02:02:33 GMT
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From: gunter@antlia.cc.uwa.OZ.AU (Gunter Ahrendt)
deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman) writes:

>Hull numbering sequence is peculiar, as U.S.N. hull numbers are by regulation
>to be sequential, yet SS 21 dates to 1912!  Anomaly apparently came about
>when "SSN-21" was applied as the project title, indicating "Sumarine for
>the 21st Century."  Name is still unofficial, and hull number may be changed
>to SSN 774.

I believe the original General Dynamics Electric Boat SSN-575 Seawolf is still
in service? (This being the rival to the Nautilus in testing nuclear propulsion)
If so, this presents another anomaly, and dictates a renaming of the original.
But I believe it is more likely to be decommisioned if not already....