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Re: [OM] OT: Naval museums now (UK SSNs)

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Naval museums now (UK SSNs)
From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:53:49 -0500
At 12:44 PM +0000 1/7/04, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 06:27:15 +0000
>From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Naval museums now
>
>I think it was HMS Conqueror.  And the RN site lists 12 SSNs (Ship 
>Submersible Nuclear) - 2 or 3 indeed! ;-)

I recall the 2 or 3 numbers from news reports during the Falklands War, and 
those reports wre quite definite.  When were those 12 ships launched?

Piers later commented that there were (are?) three Churchill-class subs in the 
UK fleet.

Joe Gwinn

>On 7 Jan 2004 , at 2:53, Joe Gwinn wrote:
>
> > The sunk Argentine ship was the "General Belgrano" I think.   I don't 
> > recall the name of the British nuclear sub, but Britian only has two 
> > or three such subs.
> >
> > Joe Gwinn
><|_:-)_|>
>
>C M I Barker
>Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.


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