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From: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams)
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Subject: Re: CGN/DLGN Classification
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Date: 16 May 91 13:07:50 GMT
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From: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams)


>From: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams)
>
>>(CLGN/DLGN) = Destroyer Long Range Guided Nuclear
>
>Correction: USS Belknap used to be classified as DLG 26 (Light Guided
>Missile Destroyer) in the FY 1961 program; she was reclassified as CG
>26 (Guided Missile Cruiser) on 30 June 1975.

Correction: USS BELKNAP was a guided missile frigate (DLG), not a long
range guided destroyer, as I saw in the original posting and carried 
over to my posting.  My apologies.

Some more interesting information on USS BELKNAP:  she was severely
damaged in a collision with the carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67)
on 22 November 1975 near Sicily.  Repair and modernization began 9 January
1978.  Included Flag accommodation in ront of the bridge and the hanger
converted for additional accommodation.  Estimated cost $213 million
and includes new improved 5 in gun, updated missile armament, sonar
communications and radar suites as well as improvements in habitability.
Recommissioned 10 May 1980.

Source: Jane's Fighting Ships 1974-74 & 85-86

Steve Williams