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From: Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
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Subject: Re: seawolf submarine
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Date: 20 Nov 90 02:22:52 GMT
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From: Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)

In <1990Nov17.020233.29926@cbnews.att.com> gunter@antlia.cc.uwa.OZ.AU (Gunter Ahrendt) writes:



>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....

I believe you are right.

The Seawolf (SSN 575) was originally fitted with a liquid-sodium cooled reactor.
For one reason or another, it was replaced with a pressurized-water reactor.

I believe it was decommissioned sometime in the 1980s.
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