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Title: US Navy ship names
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 23, 2013, 11:07:34 PM

IMHO I think most of the process is BS however Im not the SecNav.
carriers should be named after elements of the Constitution. assault ships named after Marine battles. SSN after cities and SSBN after states. my list goes on but its limited to US conventions. IMHO the British has the best naming system but those limey bastards own it and we cant copy it.

http://news.usni.org/2013/04/23/twenty-six-us-navy-ship-naming-controversies

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 24, 2013, 04:50:26 AM

I agree, the British have some great ship names.

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: Centurion40 on April 24, 2013, 08:35:45 AM

Like:

HMS Pickle
HMS Cockchafer
HMS Cockade
HMS Cockburn
HMS Arab
HMS Bacchus
HMS Badminton
HMS Bagshot
HMS Barbara
HMS Blackfly
HMS Buzzard
HMS Beaver
HMS Belzebub
HMS Blonde
HMS Bullfrog
HMS Cricket
HMS Chub
HMS Cat
HMS Date Tree
HMS Fanny
HMS Flirt
HMS Flamer
HMS Happy Lad
HMS Hospital Ship No. 22
HMS Leopard's Whelp
HMS Mullett
HMS Negro
HMS Peggy
HMS Postboy
HMS Pink
HMS Sappho
HMS Vixen
HMS Woodpecker

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: TheCommandTent on April 24, 2013, 10:09:04 AM

I never realized how politicized the naming process was now.

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: mirth on April 24, 2013, 11:32:55 AM

Quote from: TheCommandTent on April 24, 2013, 10:09:04 AM
I never realized how politicized the naming process was now.

+1 Redonkulus.

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 24, 2013, 11:41:15 AM

Quote from: Centurion40 on April 24, 2013, 08:35:45 AM
Like:

HMS Pickle
HMS Cockchafer
HMS Cockade
HMS Cockburn
HMS Arab
HMS Bacchus
HMS Badminton
HMS Bagshot
HMS Barbara
HMS Blackfly
HMS Buzzard
HMS Beaver
HMS Belzebub
HMS Blonde
HMS Bullfrog
HMS Cricket
HMS Chub
HMS Cat
HMS Date Tree
HMS Fanny
HMS Flirt
HMS Flamer
HMS Happy Lad
HMS Hospital Ship No. 22
HMS Leopard's Whelp
HMS Mullett
HMS Negro
HMS Peggy
HMS Postboy
HMS Pink
HMS Sappho
HMS Vixen
HMS Woodpecker

And those aren't even the best ones! ;)

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: Centurion40 on April 24, 2013, 12:23:03 PM

Imagine if your RN career path started out on the HMS Happy Lad, then to the HMS Flamer, HMS Chub, HMS Cockchafer, HMS Cockburn, HMS Cockade, HMS Hospital Ship No. 22, and then you retire on the HMS Barbara!! :P

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 25, 2013, 05:12:30 AM

I just read one of Patrick O'Brian's novels (The Surgeon's Mate, I think) and he mentioned an HMS Humbug. Not sure if it's true or not but it wouldn't surprise me.

Title: Re: US Navy ship names
Post by: bob48 on May 03, 2013, 04:17:26 PM

O'Brian's books are just so good.

I did a quick google for HMS Humbug, it would seem to be a fictitious name.

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