Re: FT: Ship Names

Bob Eldridge wrote:

>Check out hazegray.org, or get ahold of a copy of Jane's Fighting
Ships, Combat Fleets of the World, or Conway's All the World's Fighting
Ships 1946-1997. Fortunately the Russians built a large enough
real-world navy that there are plenty of names.  
>
Try older editions of Janes (the WW1 and WW2 editions can be bought from

bargain booksellers in the UK for around £5). These have stacks of old 
ship names (especially British, German and French) that are no longer in

use for whatever reason. Battleship names from the turn of the last 
century are much more interesting than current warship names. British 
destroyer classes generally had names starting with the same letter 
which is an easy way to name a class.

Many modern US warships are named after prominent military or government

figures. Assuming this trend continues then you have several centuries 
grace in which to make up as many names as you like - doesn't someone 
somewhere have a list of NAC destroyers & frigates named for members of 
this list (or its predecessor) ?

For Chinese names, http://www.geocities.com/jiawen6/Chinesenames.html is

unbeatable.

Tony