A Rock in Troubled Waters shows the MilGov assets that are at Cape May and also touches somewhat on Norfolk
Cape May has a Forrest Sherman DD and a CG WMEC that are both active and fully armed, Norfolk has two Forrest Sherman DD's - plus other ships most of which are the smaller ones as you detailed. There is also a tanker tied to the dock at Cape May that is empty. You also have to add in John Hancock tht is also at Norfolk.
Its a canon article out of Challenge Magazine - I have it at home and if you are interested I can put together the pages and post them here
I do have this one quote from the article that I posted earlier - the article took place early in 2001 and mentioned Bigelow shelling casinos at Atlantic City that had marauders in them and destroying three of them. It also mentioned that if the gold was recovered in Armies of the Night that Bigelow would be the ship that recovers it along with other forces at Cape May.
USS Bigelow (Forest Sherman/HuICClass): Seven of
this class of warship were mothballed at Philadelphia. Work
began early in January 1997 to bring them into service. Only
by working overtime with a greatly swollen work force were
five of them combat-ready by Thanksgiving, 1998.Two were
destroyed in port; two others were subsequently lost at sea,
presumably to enemy submarines. Of the surviving three,
two are based at Norfolk (Mamley DD 940 and Blandy DD
943) and one (Bigelow) at Cape May. They rarely put to sea,
due to a lack of fuel. Their last mission was escorting the
TF34 convoy in for the final third of the journey to Norfolk."
There are two other articles, Inland Waterway and Rifle River that also detail ships on the East Coast but I dont have them yet. From what I understand Rifle River has a CG WMEC as one of the ships.
There is also a reference in Troubled Waters to a dozen ships surviving after the Norfolk nuking that were in hiding in the Chesapeake Bay region
So that would give MilGov at least three DD, one DDG, and one corvette sized CG ship under their control (as well as the SSN Corpus Christi) on the East Coast that have fuel and armaments (but fuel is limited) and are in commission and the Coast Guard having at least one over corvette sized CG ship as well under independent control that has fuel and is in commission between Going Home, Last Submarine, Rifle River and A Rock in Troubled Waters plus a variety of smaller ships
oh and there is a sailing brig as well at Cape May that is pretty good sized and very well armed as well - she is actually used like a coastal defense ship
(from what I understand the articles in Challenge Magazine are considered canon sources - is that correct?)
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