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- From: PFAN000 <PFAN@music.lib.matc.edu>
- Subject: Re: USS Abraham Lincoln
- Message-ID: <C02wB2.Gt6@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Milwaukee Area Technical College
- References: <BzH568.B37@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <Bzo8oD.C0M@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:28:14 GMT
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- From PFAN000 <PFAN@music.lib.matc.edu>
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- >USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72 - Handle: UNION) had keel laid on 3 Nov 1984,
- >and was commissioned 11 Nov 1989. Overall length is 1,092 feet, extreme
- >breadth is 257 feet, 5.5 in. Full combat load displacement is approx.
- >100K tons. Speed is listed as "in excess of 30 knots"; on the way back
- >into Alameda, the monitor displayed our speed as 32 knots. At 100K tons, I
- >found this to be rather impressive.
- >
- >For the very curious, Lincoln also consumes 20,000 meals a day, and churns
- >out 250 haircuts a day. Really! :-)
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- Here's some additional info out of my cruise book on TR. It's
- probably similar with ABE:
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- Type of Vessel: Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
- Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding
- Propulsion: Two Nuclear Reactors
- Speed: Over 30 Knots
- Length of Flight Deck: 1092 Feet
- Widest Point: 257 Feet
- Height: 244 Feet
- Area of Flight Deck: 4.5 Acres
- Number of Aircraft: 86 Aircraft
- Weight: 97,000 TONS
- Total Crew (Air Wing Embarked): Over 6200
- Weight of Anchors: 30 Tons Each (2 anchors)
- Weight of Anchor Chain: 360 Pounds Per Link
- Height of Propellers: 21 Feet Each (4 Propellers)
- Weight of Propellers: 66,200 Pounds Each
- Number of Telephones: Over 2,000
- Structural Steel: 60,000 Tons
- Weld Metal: Over One Million Pounds
- Length of Electrical Cable: About 900 Miles
- # of meals Per day: 20,000
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- Lots of stats....
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- Pete Fanning
- Computer Operator
- Office of Information Technology
- Milwaukee Area Technical College
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- Internet: pfan@music.lib.matc.edu
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