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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