Re: Ship Naming Convention

At 12:42 06/04/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Rob Paul wrote:
>> 
>>	   By the way, did anyone notice on the UK news last week, the
crew of
>> an RN frigate complaining about current RN ship naming policy?
>> 
>
>This is way off topic; but I'm curious; what didn't they like about RN
>naming policy?  (I thought the RN was sticking to their usual naming 
>policy, unlike the USN which is naming things after senators that they
>really like.  *sigh* )
>
>As for ship names; I tend to use a weird blend of USN and RN naming 
>traditions.  If a ship class is named after people, I tend to use the
names
>of people I know, which leads to weird situations where a friend I'm 
>playing against proceeds to blow his namesake out of space.  (8-)
>
>J.

>Jerry Han - jhan@idigital.net - http://www.idigital.net/jhan -
TBFTGOGGI

	Not sufficiently "hard as nails", apparently.  It sounded to me
as
if the Navy should be teaching a bit more history to its recruits.  Then
again, I do think we have plenty of better names and historic ships to
honour before starting a "Duke" (not even Duchy) class.

	When a few of us got into then-modern naval (1/3000 minis and
Warship Commander rules) when I was at school, I confess I always chose
the
most peculiar-sounding USN names I could find.	USS Moosbrugger was a
favourite.

Rob

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