Re: Ship Naming Convention

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 06:13:13 -0600, "BEST, David" <dbest@shl.com> wrote:

>I'll just jump in once about this thread.  How about WWII Japanese
>ships.  I believe that many of them that weren't named after
>geographical areas had names that translated into "nature themes" like
>Cherry Blossom or Breeze from a mountain.

Yup. I used Japanese ship destroyer names for the names of the
destroyers in
my Age of Iridium PBEM game back in 1996. My favourite was the Sazanami,
which
means, "Curling Waves (ripples)" or "Pretty, Small Waves Raised by a
Zephyr."

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

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