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To: BenLurkin
It's the first U.S. ship to use electric propulsion...

Maybe long-term, but other US Navy craft have had electric propulsion. I'm thinking of all the diesel-electric subs in WWII...

22 posted on 04/13/2014 9:04:03 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“Maybe long-term, but other US Navy craft have had electric propulsion. I’m thinking of all the diesel-electric subs in WWII...”

The aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington (Built in the 1930’s) used a Diesel Electric propulsion system like a locomotive. Would those count?


24 posted on 04/13/2014 9:09:55 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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Some WWI era battleships had electric propulsion, as well as the USS Saratoga and USS Lexington carriers.


45 posted on 04/14/2014 3:11:24 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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