The mystery of the U.S.S. Ahwahnee NCC-73620

[ussvwbeetle 0]

I was busy looking through my Star Trek encyclopedia the other when I noticed something strange. I was looking at the Inverse Tachyon Grid screenshot from the episode "TNG Redemption, Part 2" and noticed a starship that sparked my memory for a split second. It was the USS Ahwahnee. I then did a quick cross-referance and read further that according to the same book, that exact same ship was destroyed in the battle of Wolf 359. Now that brings up three questions, was it destroyed and then salvaged and rebuilt? Was it the sole survivor of the battle of wolf 359? If so, that would contradict the USS Endeavour's story of being the sole survivor of the same battle. Third, it could be just another ship of same name but no suffix to it's registary number. Could any one shed some light on this mystery please?

[Jack_Bauer 1]

It was at Wolf 359, damaged and left adrift and then was salvaged, repaired, and back in service by the time of the Klingon Civil War.

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/USS_Ah...%28NCC-71620%29