Per canon, as in, printed by GDW, how much of the US Navy is left as fleet-in-being?
Matt Weiser wrote a pretty good "fanon" writeup in GLYOYO #1; just wondering where the GDW pubs outline what ships are left.
USS City of Corpus Christi, SSGN-981 an Ohio-class SSBN (
The Last Sub)
USS John Hancock, DD981, Spruance class (
Going Home)
USS Nashville, LPD-13, Austin-class transport dock (
The RDF Sourcebook)
USS Bellau Wood, LHA-3, Tarawa-class (
The RDF Sourcebook)
USS Clark, FFG-11, Oliver Hazard Perry class (
The RDF Sourcebook)
USS Boone, FFG-25*, Oliver Hazard Perry class (
The RDF Sourcebook)
USS Copeland, FFG-28*, Oliver Hazard Perry class (
The RDF Sourcebook)
USS Salem, CA-139**, Des Moines class heavy cruiser (
The RDF Sourcebook)
USS Yorktown, CG-45, Ticonderoga class (
The RDF Sourcebook)
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*=the ship registry numbers are flipped, Boone is FFG-28 and Copeland is FFG-25.
** = now, this is interesting. Salem was decomissioned in 1954. Per Wikipeida:
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The ship was surveyed in 1981 for possible reactivation as part of the 600 ship navy project, and while the inspection results showed she was in excellent condition, funding to reactivate Salem and her sister Des Moines could not be secured from Congress.
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So, even by Twilight:2000's timeline, she wasn't put back in service. However, at some point, she
was. She wasn't made into a museum ship until 1994, so that means she sat in the reserve fleet after the 1981 examination. But, again, "she was in excellent condition", so by the T2k timeline, she must have been returned to Naval service rather than given over to museum caretakers in the 1990s. Either that or she was brought back into service to bolster the Navy after losses. I lean towards the former, since finding personnel qualified and gathering the resources to re-tool and make fully combat-worthy a ship of that age would be at best very difficult after even a limited nuclear war...