RE: [FT] - Islamic Ship Class Names

>Is the first ship built the name of the class?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Even individual navies (real world) are not
consistent - eg: one class of the Royal Navy's	DDs are all named after
weapons, and generally called Broadsword class (after first ship in
class)
rather than "weapon" class; same goes for the older Leander class ships.
However there are also the old	DDs like HMS Norfolk, Devonshire etc.
which
are always known as "County" class, and I think the same goes for the
(WWII?) "Battle" class DDs......
Thus RL precendents apply for either naming after a first ship of class,
or
having an overall class name that doesn't actually appear on any one
ship.

Jon (GZG)
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>[mailto:owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Steve Gill
>Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:55 AM
>To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>Subject: RE: [FT] - Islamic Ship Class Names
>
>
>Bell, Brian K wrote:
>
>...
>> Now that I take a (serious) look at it, they may name their ships for
>> historical martyrs.
>> Jon, perhaps you should do just a little more back-fill of the
history.
>> Enough to get the names of the martyrs that nuked Israel. Chances are
that
>> some classes were named after those individuals or at least the code
name
>> for the plan that carried it out.
>...
>
>But that would be individual ships not classes.
>
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>Steve Gill
>Steve@caws.demon.co.uk