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I've written some Daedalus conjecture for UP3. My article says that the Daedalus originated from Earth's defense fleet, being developed during the 2140s-2150s. It was one of the first classes to operate under Starfleet, but the high regos (173 and 189, I believe that were the Essex and Archon, respectively) refutes the theory that it might be the first. According to my conjecture, about 30 Daidaloi enrolled service, starting off with NCC-160. I assumed the first Fed ship to carry the rego NCC-100. However, I think that the first generation of Starfleet ships were carried over from member world fleets, so the ship that carried NCC-100 would not really be the 'first' Fed ship, just the first to got a number assigned.
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Masao, the first battle ship was the Maine, the one that blew up in the Havana Harbor in 1898. Thios battleship was reclassified to second-rate battleship sometime before she was commissioned. She and her slightly different sister were prototype battleships.
I think the first ships in my own opinion was the Dautless class. What I mean is that why would the the entire crew of Voayger think that is a right registry compared to a different one? The USS Daedalus was perhaps NX-150 to give a good number of ships ranging from 30 to 50 ships. In my opinion I also support that the Deadalus class was the first multi-hulled ship for Starfleet.
The first ships of Starfleet was probably converted civilian ships into military ships. These ships were phased out as soon as properly designed ships were available.
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I believe Dauntless is the first Federation ship, NCC-01, but that she was civilian, and of another class. She was merely the first ship they picked to retrofit and reregister.
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Matrix: According to my Encyclopedia of Naval History that I borrowed from my school's library today, the first examples of battleships were the French Ironclad La Gloire and the British Warrior. It classifies the Maine as a cruiser, weighing in at 6682 tons.
On a side note, the first battleship without sails was the Devastation, weighing in at 9300 tons. What a heavyweight. Well, pithy compared to the 21 250 metric ton HMS Dreadnought, which rendered every existing battleship obsolete in 1906...
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I meant the first US battleships, becuase those ships never recieved the BB classifaction like the others have. Yes the Maine was orginally supposed to be a cruiser but later on redesignated to be second-rate battleship. What's the name of the book anyway?
The Daedalus like the Constitution class, was probably was the back bone of the early Starfleet fleets. As larger and more powerful ships came along these came obsolete due to their size.
The weapons on the Daedalus are perhaps hidden from view to give the impression that she and her sisters are exploratory ships and only will show their teeth when they need to.
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Ok, so Maine was only retroactively named a battleship (originally an armored cruiser, IIRC), but that doesn't really matter. What matters is that the US military numbering system for planes and ships doesn't use zeros before single digit numbers! So, I think that NX-01 is a load of hooey. After all, if Starfleet could expect that they would have at least 10 ships and put a zero ahead of Dauntless's "1," why didn't they expect that they would some day have at least 100 ships and put two zeros in front of the "1"?
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The book is called An Encyclopedia of Naval History. It only features peoples, places, events, and ships which the authors considered important enough to mention. It doesn't list every single ship produced by every single country ever. That would be one big book.
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See if you want to spend the money on Jane's All the Worlds.... Ships, Aircraft, etc, they are big books, and very expensive last I looked. Of course they put their books on CD also. The last I had was an old copy of All the Worlds Aircraft that they sold when Wurtsmith AFB closed....mid seventies I think....... If I ever hit the Lotto.....
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enrolled service, starting off with NCC-160. I assumed the first Fed ship to carry the rego NCC-100. However, I think that the first generation of Starfleet ships were carried over from member world fleets, so the ship that carried NCC-100 would not really be the 'first' Fed ship, just the first to got a number assigned.
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