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From: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Digression on Naval naming
Message-ID: <445@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 01:16:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 28 01:16:49 1985
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Reply-To: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur)
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>> Well, Herb, I'd like to ask how you know that.  The ENTERPRISE is a CVN,
>> not a CVA ("N" representing Nuclear-powered)...
>> 


   The Enterprise is now classified by the Navy Department as CVN. Before 
1975, it was classified as a CVAN. The change was made to reflect a multirole
capabilities ship instead of the (A) attack classification. Some many years
previous it to that, it was changed from CVA(N) to CVAN. 

  Roger Levasseur
  unmvax!nmtvax!maurice