Re: Ship Naming Convention

In a message dated 4/6/98 6:22:38 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
agoodall@sympatico.ca writes:

<< 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>>

Remembering a certain freind of mines most feared ship design, (The
system
escapes me it was about 16 years ago, though the name/ship keeps
appearing in
his fiction and he keeps threatining a re-design :) a Mercenary Cruiser
by the
name of:
(As translated from an alien language of the game)

"Little yellow Flower, repose on a field of Crimson"

As I recall, ship and commander took out a fair number of Heavy Cruisers
and
at least one Light Battleship as I recall. Guess who commanded the BB(L)
 :)

Randy