Re: Ship Naming Convention

At 06:24 07/04/98 EDT, you wrote:
>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>>
SNIP

I can't quite remember;  they were happy enough with their own ship's
name,
and she was a Type 22; Battleaxe? Broadsword? 

Rob

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