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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
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Subject: Diesel subs (was Electric Warship Propulsion)
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.022642.25217@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 02:26:42 GMT
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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)

According to my most recent issue of Naval Institute Proceedings,
the commentors stating that there are no more conventionally powered
submarines in the US fleet are not quite right.

An article by Norman Polmar (Jan 91 issue, p 121) contains a table
of US Navy force levels and shows the USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) as in
commission in 1990 and projected to still be around in 1995.

Dolphin is a research submarine, which probably accounts for the
omissions from others' bean counts.

Rex Buddenberg