From Norman Friedman's US Small Combatants, pages 319-323 (most of those pages are pictures of PBRs, a Coast Guard 82-footer and a 57-ft Minesweeper Boat)
Table 12-5. Schemes for Ocean Reconnaissance Ships, 31 March 1966
A
B
C
D
E
May 1967
LBP (ft)
317.5
311
311
315
—
374
LOA...
1960s
anti-submarine warfare
cold war
late 1960s
maritime reconnaissance
oceanographicresearchresearch ship
sonar
strategic reconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
u.s. navy
united states navy
Some good news, along with a bit of background:
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acoustic research
anti-submarine warfare
cold war
cold war ii
department of the navy
early 21st century
experimental
late 20th century
oceanographicresearch
office of naval research
post-cold war
researchresearch ship
research vessel flip
scripps institution of oceanography
sonar
u.s. navy
united states navy
uss flip
war on terror
Over the last couple of weekends, I've come into ownership of a couple of volumes of Janes Fighting Ships. Some people might call this a problem, but not me. In several of these, the earliest one in my possession being the 1982-1983 edition, the following statement (or one very much like it in...
1970s
1980s
cold war
deep sea operations
deep submergence vessel
nuclear powered vessels
oceanographicresearch
underwater search and recovery
united states
united states navy
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