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Re: Ships Penant numbers.
Posted by: David H ()
Date: September 25, 2003 05:47AM

<HTML>Len
I presume you mean under the NATO system of pennants. I believe that 'R' was chosen simply because the letter 'A' was allocated to Auxiliaries and the letter 'I' was too similar to the figure 1; 'C' could not be used as it was for Cruisers, so the 'R' became the obvious choice.

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Ships Penant numbers. Len Inglis 09/24/2003 02:49PM
Re: Ships Penant numbers. ROBERT M. 09/25/2003 04:10AM
Re: Ships Penant numbers. David H 09/25/2003 05:47AM
Re: Ships Penant numbers. Len Inglis 09/25/2003 10:29AM
Re: Ships Penant numbers. Ian Sadler 09/26/2003 10:07AM
Re: Ships Penant numbers. john 09/30/2003 07:07PM
Re: Ships Penant numbers. Jim McFaul 10/19/2003 07:04PM


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