Re: UNSC Ship Names

--- "Grant A. Ladue" <ladue@cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > >Lawkeeper class Patrol Cruisers
> > Dredd
> > 
>    He he.  Yeah, that will be one.  I'm thinking we need famous
> sheriff's and the like.  Who founded Scotland Yard?  Wyatt and Virgil

> Earp?  Hammurabi perhaps?

How about:
UNS Harry Callahan
UNS John McClain
UNS Nero Wolfe
UNS Baretta
UNS Starsky
UNS Hutch
UNS Riggs
UNS Murtaugh
UNS Friday
:)

or, keeping in mind my opinion of the UN:
UNS Vic Mackey
:D

> > >Hunter class Frigates
> > Nimrod "was a mighty hunter before Lord"
> > Artemis
> > Diana
> > 
>    These are good.  I need *lot's* of frigate names.	Anyone got
> non-fictional hunters?  I was going to use Hemmingway.  Who else is a

> famous big-game hunter?

UNS Hickock
UNS Cody
UNS Patterson

UNS Remington
UNS Winchester
UNS Beretta

> 
> 
> > >Storm class Strike Cruisers
> > Khamsim, Sirocco, similar windstorms
> > 
> 
>    I was wondering about this.  Are their enough storm "types" to
> use, or would we need to use the "names" of hurricanes and typhoons 
> instead?

http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames.htm
http://www.fema.gov/kids/r_hurrnames.htm
http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames3.htm
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/hurricanes/epachurs.shtm

J