Re: [GZG] Re: NSL Ship Names

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to be named after runners, then I think somewhere in the
NAC fleet there needs to be a ship named the *Sebastian Coe*. He and
Steve
Prefontaine were my favorites when I was a cross-country runner.

On 3/14/07, Michael R. Blair <pellinoire@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Stealing a leaf from the Japanese book and following a
> scheme for the names, so for example
> super-dreadnoughts are named for states (Länder?).
> Other classes could be named for cities, towns,
> heroes, rivers, lakes, gods and so on.
>
> I used names plundered from the Austro-Hungarian
> section of Conway's All the Worlds Fighting Ships for
> the ships when I did our last Full Thrust campaign so
> it would be worth another look. I started with DD
> names from the ill-fated WW II German DDs as I
> happened to have a library book on them out at the
> time but I was careful to avoid any names which had
> associations with the Nazi era though this still left
> most of the famous WW II Kriegsmarine ship names free
> as they had more honorable origins.
>
> Wikipedia has some good stuff:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Navy
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Austro-Hungarian_Navy
>
> The idea of a class of scouts named for runners
> appeals to me though it is not a very NSL thing. You
> could have the Pheidippides class which includes –
> well the only runner I can name is Jesse Owens and he
> was American but you get the idea.
>
> Valkyrie class scout.
>
> For example.
> A little bit of theft from Wikipedia produces:
> Super-Dreadnoughts (Länder class):
> Baden-Württemberg
> Bayern
> Berlin
> Brandenburg
> Bremen
> Hamburg
> Hessen
> Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
> Niedersachsen
> Nordrhein-Westfalen
> Rheinland-Pfalz
> Saarland
> Sachsen
> Sachsen-Anhalt
> Schleswig-Holstein
> Thüringen
> This would probably be changed by the time of the
> official setting of Full Thrust but someone who knows
> more can handle that.
>
> I cannot see the new ships yet, the Star Ranger page
> is filtered here in work and I am out tonight so it
> will be Thursday before I get to see them.
>
> Michael
>
> It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of
this
> has done what he has done.
> - Richelieu
>
>
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