Wow, great links! Really good stuff, Amizaur
This is enough leisure reading to last a few months.
I've always use FAS as a good source of informaiton for american ship stats.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/index.html
And there are a few articles on the Harpoon3 site that are interesting reads as well
http://www.harpoonhq.com/waypoint/
PS) if you don't want the thread to spread out, just take all the additional links that persons provide and edit them into your first post i.e.
LoBlo's links
link 1
link 2
that should keep things tidy