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To: Area Freeper

The Ferry can sail alongside the Aircraft Carrier "Pearl Harbor."


9 posted on 09/22/2004 9:45:13 AM PDT by pete anderson
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To: pete anderson
The Ferry can sail alongside the Aircraft Carrier "Pearl Harbor."

It can't - there is already a USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) in commission, and she's a landing ship (dock).

From the link above: "USS PEARL HARBOR is the last of the United States Navy's four new cargo variants of the WHIDBEY ISLAND class of Landing Dock Ships and is the first ship to carry the name Pearl Harbor and is named to commemorate the heroic actions of the members of the armed services as well as the citizens of the Island of Oahu during the attack on December 7, 1941."

In recent years carriers have been named for ex-presidents, but CVs were traditionally named for famous US battles. Not necessarily those in which the US was victorious - they remember the valor of those who fought.


16 posted on 09/22/2004 10:35:29 AM PDT by Denver Ditdat (Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us.)
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