Re: [FT] Ship Names

Just to add to the themes, some of my favs that I have seen over the
years
in different settings:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [FT] Ship Names
> At 9:38 PM +1000 7/29/01, Andrew Ayres wrote:

<<SNIP>>

> but usually its either descriptive words, Invincible,
> Indefatigable, Illustrious, Valiant, Revenge, Terrible etc.

Dismay, Harbringer, Harken

> Typically the names followed a theme. For example the Admiralty S
> class DD had Scabre, Saladin, Sardonyx, Scimitar, Scout, Shikari, and
> the oddball name Tenedos. Birds are sometimes used as in the Black
> Swan class of Sloops. Black Swan, Snipe, Sparrow, Starliong, MAgpie,
> PEacock, Pheasant, Redpole, Cygnet, Wren, etc.

Peregrin, Raptor, Ringtail, Erne, Harpy

And some others, assorted: