Re: Ship Naming Convention

On Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:55:30 +0000, Rob Paul
<rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

>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.

What was the ship's name?

And you'd think that if ANYONE had a right to complain about their ship
names
it would have been the crew of the Flower class destroyers during WWII.
I mean
Gladiolus (an actual name) sure strikes fear in MY heart, how about you?

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

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