The Kawachi-class was ordered on 22 June 1907 under the 1907 Warship Supplement Program after the Russo-Japanese War as Japan's first dreadnoughts, although their construction was delayed by a severe depression.
Meanwhile, the questions posed by the Cole bombing have carried American officials back to calculations made before the warship-refueling program began.
Currently, a committee representing all those coastal states is working with the Navy on plans to obtain 300 to 400 mothballed Navy vessels, including warships, said Mr. Figley, New Jersey's program coordinator.
The meetings, held at the border village of Panmunjom, were intended to prepare the way for more substantive discussions about the artillery attack, the sinking of a South Korean warship and the North's nuclear programs.
An estimated $26 billion can be saved by halting production of the troubled V-22 Osprey vertical lift aircraft and the hugely costly Virginia class submarine, slimming the still unproven missile defense program and refitting existing warships (not buying new ones) for Mr. Obama's new missile defense plan in Europe.
In 1907, the Brazilian government placed an order for two of the powerful new "dreadnought" warships as part of a larger naval construction program.
The talks, to be held at the border village of Panmunjom, are intended to set an agenda for future substantive discussions about the shelling, the sinking of a South Korean warship last March and the North's ongoing nuclear programs.
The Lee administration had responded to the North's offers in recent weeks by demanding that the North first take concrete steps to dismantle its nuclear program and apologize for the attacks on the warship Cheonan and Yeonpyeong Island.
The South has said the North must first agree to discuss the sinking of the warship, the Cheonan, the shelling of Yeonpyeong, and its nuclear programs.
A1 Civilians and Submarines The program in which civilians go on excursions aboard warships is hugely popular with the Navy brass and is likely to continue virtually unchanged despite the submarine Greeneville's collision with a Japanese ship, military officials say.
