re: #490 avanti

Hell, probably better then mine would have been. I’m impressed that you knew so much about my old ship. Are you a Navy history buff ?

Somewhat. My information is from M.J. Whitley’s Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. It’s a book I own that has entries for every class of cruiser that faught or was laid down during the war, even those that were not completed till after the war.