To: Chewbacca
Ohio class was 16 inch, Ohio class? Maybe you're thinking of another midwestern state with lots of vowels. Iowa, perhaps?
There have been two battleships named Ohio. BB-12 (Maine class) launched 1901, commissioned 1904, finally decommisioned 1922.
BB-68 (Montana class) authorized 1940, cancelled 1943 before construction started.
17 posted on
02/27/2004 9:24:39 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(The idea of five Supreme Court justices appointed by President Kerry chills me to the bone.)
To: KarlInOhio
Yeah, your right.
I meant Iowa class.
Had a brain fart.
My father used to work on Ohio class subs and my brain was stuck on that name.
18 posted on
02/27/2004 10:12:48 AM PST by
Chewbacca
("Turn off your machines! Walk off your jobs! Power to the People!" - The Ice Pirates)
To: KarlInOhio
I think the Montana class was to have 18" guns or larger. She and her sisters were designed to counter the Japanese super battleships.
27 posted on
09/06/2004 1:36:45 PM PDT by
U S Army EOD
(John Kerry, the mother of all flip floppers.)
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