What's in a Name?
What is everyone's Favourite/ best/ luckiest ship name, and everyone's Least favourite/ worst/ unluckiest?It does seem that naming a ship "Invincible" is just asking for trouble, you might as well...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
If the RN ends up sharing two with the French we should insist on them being called Agincourt and Trafalgar - just to show them who's boss.
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
Throd wrote: If the RN ends up sharing two with the French we should insist on them being called Agincourt and Trafalgar - just to show them who's boss.The tricky part is that the Royal Navy already...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
The CV-6 was certainly one of the most famous ships in the US Navy, but the tradition of the name being lucky started with the schooner USS Enterprise in the Quasi-War with France, the Barbary wars...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
When the Royal navy was laying down the Invincible Through-deck cruisers', there was a public outcry that none of the ships would be called Ark Royal. Under public pressure the Navy caved in, but I...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
Are nicknames allowed? Just because "Big Mamie" sounds so catchy to me. Ise would have to be my least favourite name.
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
HMS Troutbridge wrote: When the Royal navy was laying down the Invincible Through-deck cruisers', there was a public outcry that none of the ships would be called Ark Royal. Under public pressure the...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
I always thought Devastation was a perfect name for a battleship... Captain Aturo Prat was killed at the Battle of Iquique leading a 20 year-old wooden corvette against a modern ironclad during the...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
The RN has a unrivaled number of fantastic historical ship names that for some unfathomable reason it does its very best to ignore. Look at the fine names of the old 'Leander' class for instance:...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
Ah yes the RFA's Bay Class LSD's ... honestly who came up with those namesThe first two RFA Largs Bay and Lyme Bay, have been nicknamed the Lager and Lime!Then there are RFA Cardigan Bay and Mounts...
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
Always felt Ardent was asking for trouble. Prinz Eugen and Eugenio Duca de Savoie, axis ships both named after Prince Eugene of Savoy who was Marlborough's stoutest ally.
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
I may have found the silliest ... the Royal Navy's HMS Sappho !!!
View ArticleRe: What's in a Name?
Prinz Eugen some how survived WW2 to end up being turned into a radioactive wreck. With Britain struggling with a steel shortage the US could have donated her to the Brits to be scrapped. Two names...
View Article
