2008 Cyber Guide to the Navy Ship Register, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Authoritative Data on Thousands of Active, Inactive, and Historic Ships (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date and expanded electronic book on CD-ROM has a complete, official listing of all active, inactive, and historic U.S. naval ships, with reproductions of the Official Naval Vessel Register and the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection contains more than 54,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. NAVY SHIP INVENTORY, DIRECTORY, DICTIONARY - Naval Vessel Register, with information on ships and service craft, comprises the official inventory from the time of vessel authorization through its service life and disposal. Data includes fleet size, ship hull classification symbols, names, homeports, status, custodian assignments, planning yard (nuclear reactor plant) assignments, ships donated as a museum and memorial. Also, from the Naval Historical Center, the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) - a huge compilation of data with over 10,000 entries and summary histories of U.S. Navy ship literally from A to Z. The listings are presented in numerous formats and are cross-referenced: Alphabetical by Name, Status, Maritime Administration, Naval Defenses Reserve Fleet, Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force, Homeport, Ship Custodian Arrangement, Planning Yard (Hull) Arrangement, Ships Donated as a Museum and Memorial, Prepositioning Force (PREPO), Maritime Prepositioning Ship (MPS), Status Summaries, and by Coast. Each vessel is covered by a Fact File. Each Fact File contains specifications including Overall Length, Waterline Length, Extreme Beam, Waterline Beam, Maximum Navigational Draft, Draft Limit, Light Displacement, Full Displacement, Dead Weight; Ship History, Builder, Keel, Launch, Delivery Dates, Age, Status. Complementing the inventory and dictionary is an extensive collection of Navy material on the current fleet, weapons, ships overview, ships Program Executive Office, surface warfare, Navy budget documents, the DDG-100 Zumwalt destroyer program, and historic data on American battlesh