21st Century U.S. Navy Ship Inventory with Facts and Figures for All Active Ships plus over 1800 Service Craft

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, and Dead Weight. Each Fact File also features a Ship History with a Builder listing, the Keel, Launch, and Delivery Dates, the Age of the vessel, and its Status.

The Ship Availability Database (SAV) contains historical information on US Naval vessels and completed shipyard availabilities. Shipyard availability is defined as a period of time that a ship is scheduled to undergo construction, critical repairs or maintenance, modernization, conversion, or other work that typically can only be accomplished in a shipyard. The SAV database contains approximately 15,000 completed availabilites from 1913 to 2001.

Over 10,000 pages of text and photos are presented in the easy-to-use Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for military or ship enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.