Why is Canada Naming its Warships After U.S. Defeats?

[bayonetbrant]

that's what I was thinking of, too :)

[MIGMaster]

I don't see any problems with it.  Unless you go forward to WW1 and ground combat (or further forward in history), what else would you name Canadian ships?

They used to name them after aboriginals - like the Tribal Class destroyers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal-class_destroyer_(1936)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_class_destroyer

[endfire79]

Names, names, names :)

British sailors must sail alongside current U.S. warships such as the USS Bunker Hill, USS Cowpens, and the USS Lake Champlain (at least the cruiser USS Yorktown has been retired). And the Japanese have to put up with the cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, the Germans with the USS Normandy and USS Anzio -- and I'm sure the Vietnamese will look forward to a port visit from the cruiser USS Hue City. Not even domestic enemies are spared; Confederate nostalgists can grit their teeth over the USS Gettysburg and USS Vicksburg. - See more at: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/08/revolutions_end#sthash.ZJrKhU8k.dpuf

[Windigo]

my my my.... a wee tempest in a teapot methinks

[Greybriar]

Ticonderoga, anyone?

That was the first thing that entered my mind when I saw the title of this thread.

[Jack Nastyface]

Conspicuously absent from this list is HMCS Men's Hockey 2010, HMCS Women's Hockey 2010, and HMCS Blue Jays Back-to-Back World Series.

I also won a game of beer pong back in '88 against a bunch of WSU frat boys who thought Budweiser was a real beer.  That should merit the naming of one of those crappy patrol craft that guard the Straight of Juan de Fuca from vacationing US fishermen who cannot seem to f**king figure out the salmon trolling right-of-way rules (hint...the boat with fish-on-the-line should turn away (not into) the trolling circuit, and has right-of-way over a boat with no fish-on).

Jack Nastyface

[undercovergeek]

Shipping lane grog!!