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

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Naval museums now (UK SSNs)
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:17:05 +0000
Good point: The Trafalgar class subs seem to have been launched and commissioned after the Falklands War (e.g. Dec 82), but HMS Sceptre was launched in 1978, the tenth nuclear-powered sub according to the RN website:

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/2307.html

I must admit that we have more SSNs than I originally thought, but only 2 or 3... well!

;-)

Chris (who would not fancy a job in the deep, and rather admires the skippers who manage these machines... )

On 7 Jan 2004 , at 13:53, Joe Gwinn wrote:

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
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