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Subject: Lame ship names
scooter    8/17/2004 7:50:41 PM
What is the WORST name given to a warship And the BEST? My choice is the WW2 Royal Navy - HMS Pink. Not very macho or enspiring is it? Do you think the crew forgoed the traditional Rum and Beef for Tea and scones? I think HMAS Vampire - A Daring class Destroyer had the right choice. Could we see this name return for any of the proposed AAW Destroyers for Oz?
 
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doggtag    RE:Lame ship names   8/17/2004 11:30:40 PM
As far as having the longest ship names, that award goes to the Italians with the Abruzzi class cruiser, Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi (just thought I'd throw it in).
 
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bombard    RE:Lame ship names   8/24/2004 12:46:16 PM
HMS Kelly: Destroyer commanded by Earl Mountbatten, sunk under his command. Sad name. On the other hand, Warspite. Beautiful name for a fighting ship.
 
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PuckaMan    RE:Lame ship names   8/24/2004 10:07:02 PM
What about Iron Duke? I think it Should be updated to Rolled Homogenous Armour Duke or Tungsten Duke - or Depeleted Uranium Duke - Carbon Monofibre Duke........ Iron is compaitively soft by today's industrial standards. Pucka
 
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doggtag    RE:Lame ship names   8/24/2004 10:40:32 PM
Duca d'Aluminum? of course, the hull number could be the alloy type: 1435, 6061, etc).
 
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scholar    RE:Lame ship names   8/25/2004 11:02:18 AM
I remember listening to NPR during the early days of the Falklands war, when the British task force was still on its way. They did a whole program comparing British ship names with the Argentine ship names. Conclusion: the RN had some cool names for ships. The USN always seems to name its ships after people or places. No adjectives.
 
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HorribleSailor    RE:Iron Duke   8/25/2004 8:46:20 PM
Iron Duke is so named, not because of any attempt to sound 'tough', but because it was the nick-name of the 1st Duke of Wellington, famous 18th/19th c military commander. Oh, and he was so nicknamed because he was SO unpopular in his brief period as Prime Minister, that he had iron shutters put on his windows...
 
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PuckaMan    RE:Iron Duke   8/25/2004 10:11:21 PM
I know that, but updating the name to something harder..... In the tradition of that, what about the USS Teflon President (AKA Bill Clinton)? Also why does the US Navy have a USS Winston S. Churchill (an AB) and not the RN (unless I'm missing something). There are some Aboriginal names in the RAN that may seem funny - HMAS NILLUMBILLIK, or if we start to name them after Aboriginal groups, we could have the HMAS YORTA YORTA and HMAS DJA DJA WURRUNG. Pucka
 
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HorribleSailor    RE:Iron Duke   8/26/2004 4:37:34 PM
I'd imagine that, quite simply put, the RN doesn't have a Winston S Churchill because a) The RN doesn't name ships in that form, it would simply be the Churchill; and b) it doesn't fit into any of the current class themes. As a rule, at the moment, the RN tends to favour places over people as this causes more people to be interested in individual ships ('ooh, it's named after our town!' etc)..
 
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Marcus    HMS Churchill   8/26/2004 4:43:35 PM
was a valiant class submarine one of the first ssn of the rn
 
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RM-Nod    RE:HMS Churchill   8/29/2004 12:36:17 PM
The USS Winston S Churchill does have a link to Britain though, through virtue of it's name it permanantly has a British exchange Officer, the current is a communications officer I think.
 
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