Hehe, I've just gotten onto the Los Angeles Times! (Well, sorta...)
So, April 14. Two days after the Maersk Alabama rescue, and LA Times is running an
article, complete with a diagram showing the relative sizes of
Bainbridge and the lifeboat. I get to that page...
Wait a minute! Bainbridge is a Burke DDG...it doesn't have fore-and-aft Mk 26 launchers!
But, on the other hand, Bainbridge was also a CGN...
My class was quite surprised at my perhaps overloud reaction. Ditto my rush to the computer, but it
is Speech-and-Debate post-competition season, where the class is similar to a force of nature, only more random.
Long story short, the next day the
correction pops up. Naval geekery pays off!
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Vanvikan, Feb. 2009: ordinary human, KIA, night 4
HMS Thanatus, May 2009: ??? human, KIA, night 7