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Subject: Re: Nuclear Navy
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Date: 10 May 91 07:52:00 GMT
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> From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)
> jwstuart@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jesse William Leo Stuart) writes:
>>The USN has many other nuclear ships, which include Destroyers, Cruisers 
>>(i.e. USS Long Beach), Reasearch Subs, etc...
> 
> This is news to me.  A DDN?  Or would it be DDGN?  Never heard of it....

Its been a while since I had Naval History, but I seem to remember that
the Long Beach was originally designated as a destroyer (DGLN I
think).  I also beleive that in the early stages of some of the
subsequent nuke cruisers they too were considered destroyers.  I'm not
sure when the change took place classifying the ships as CGN's.

At present, however, the Navy has only one class of destroyer - the
Spruance - and it runs an a LM2500 Gas Turbine as do many of the
DDG's.  I don't think the Navy currently has any nuclear destroyers.

.... But I could be wrong.

Huey