RE: UN Ship Nomenclature

[Niall Gilsenan <ngilsena@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
>"Elvis Aaron Presley, Sir. But most folks think he's dead now."
>
>Tom (who thinks there is a King, but he's unlikely to be 
>greatly revered in the Scottish, Welsh or Irish parts of NAC).
>

Odd that, eh?  Anyhow Elvis isn't dead he just hiding out on a small island
in Connemara.  Well thats what the voices in my head tell me...

On another point I always rather regarded Ireland (at least the part that
is separate from the UK) as being more likely to be part of the FSE (Being
pro-European mostly) or independent.  Perhaps part of that Celtic
(pronounced with a K unlike the fottball team) Alliance someone suggested
way back.

One thing that struck me is that we are making an assumption that UN ship
names 
are all in English.  Might it not be likely that some of these ships might
have African or Asian (or whatever) names as well?  I presume that the
Korean name for their country is different from the English version.

Is Mount Kilimanjaro (probably mispelled this) the same in  English as it
is in Afrikans?
Might present some interesting sounding names for ships.  
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Dublin 1,
Ireland.

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