budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) (01/15/91)
From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) According to my most recent issue of Naval Institute Proceedings, the commentors stating that there are no more conventionally powered submarines in the US fleet are not quite right. An article by Norman Polmar (Jan 91 issue, p 121) contains a table of US Navy force levels and shows the USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) as in commission in 1990 and projected to still be around in 1995. Dolphin is a research submarine, which probably accounts for the omissions from others' bean counts. Rex Buddenberg