Re: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)

Allan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

> Well put, Tom. I'm sure with a little digging up, we could easily come
up with
> 50 or 60 names for Mark without having to go to Europe, Asia, or
Africa.
> 
> This, too, adds some great naming conventions. Picts, Caledonians,
Angles,
> Saxons, Britons, Gaul, Visigoth, Ostrogoth, Slav, etc., etc. Lots of
good
> names there.

How could you get the Picts without the Kelts or Celts (depending on 
your bent)?  

I'm sure you could also name ships after famous places and 
geography.

For example, your BB class could include the Himalayan, the 
Carpathian, the Ural, the Adirondack, the Blue Ridge, etc.  
Your CA class could include the Vistula, the Nile, the Deniepr, the 
Ganges, the Yangtze, the Fraser, the Columbia, the Mississipi, the 
Rideau, etc. 
Your CL class could include the Erie, the Huron, the Ontario, the 
Baikal, the Salt Lake, the Michigan, etc. 
Your CV class could include the Giza, the Paris, the Delphi, the 
Constantinople, the Jerusalem, the Vienna, etc. 
Your DD class could include the Sahara, the Mojave, etc. 

(You get the idea). 

One could follow some sort of a heroic naming scheme

BB: The MacArthur, the Schwartzkopf, the Powell, the Patton, the 
Montgomery, the Rommel, the Eisenhower.
CA: The Montcalm, the Wolfe, the Ney, the Bonaparte, the Wellington, 
the Adolphus, etc
CL: The Horatio, The Xenophon, the Agrippa, the Augustus, etc.
CV: The Nimitz, the Bishop, the Rickenbaker, the Richtoffen, the 
Jodl, etc. 
DD: The Geronimo, the Custer, the Sherman, the Sheridan, the Lee, the 
Grant, etc. 

I don't think one ever needs run out of fascinating and useful ship 
names. The world is so full of wonderful material that there is no 
shortage. 

Tom