I am now accepting proposals of interest to join us, sometime within the next month or three, for a weekend trip to visit the battleship New Jersey. Wow.

By the way, I blame my interest in big ships on Winston Churchill. His WWII series infected me with his admiration for all things naval.

Realizing how little I knew, I got reading. For example, I had no idea about the size of the US Navy, except some vague notion that it was big. Actually, there are only about a dozen huge ships (carriers), eighty major ships (submarines + cruisers), and a bunch of smaller ones in support (destroyers, missile frigates, etc.), making around three hundred in total. That’s it for the largest navy in the world.