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From: welty@sol.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
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Subject: Re: Final museum list
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Date: 20 Dec 90 01:58:32 GMT
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From: welty@sol.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <1990Dec17.043212.23440@cbnews.att.com>, The Mad Mathematician writes: 
*Submarine Museum Cleveland Ohio USS Nautilus

is this the WWII vessel?  the nuclear sub is on display at
New London as is mentioned later on in this article:

*USS Nautilus Memorial, Groton CN
*	(USS Nautilus and US Sub Base Museum - great tour!!!)

i concur; this trip is well worth it, although i found an error
or two in the museum displays.  what my girlfriend and i did was
spend a day at Battleship Cove and a half day at the sub base;
these are about an hour's drive apart from each other.

..
*Also in DC, at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History (or whatever
*they call it these days- it changes a lot) they have the USS
*Philadelphia, the first U.S. warship, constructed in 1775 or 1776.  It
*was actually operated by the Army, since the navy didn't exist yet.

the designation USS wouldn't apply to such a vessel; there were no
United States at the time.  makes for a good trick question.

the first ships built for the not-yet-a-country were commissioned
by George Washington while he was investing Boston; there were
also a number built by the then-loyal Benedict Arnold in order
to contest Lake Champlain in the period immediately preceding
the Battle of Bennington and the Battle of Saratoga; the ships
built for Arnold included the first Enterprise in this country's
service.

richard
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