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

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Jerry Han wrote:

> Rob Paul wrote:
> > Stalingrad?  Debacle?  There was I thinking it was a famous
victory... ;-)
> 
> How true.  
> 
> Perl Harbour and the sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales were great

> victorys for the Japanese.  The burning of Washington was a great
victory
> for the British.  

There are probably Americans who wish Washington had stayed
burnt...there
are probably also Canadians who wish Toronto (it was York then) had
stayed
burnt...no offense to the Torontonians on the list...:)

>New Orleans, 1814, was a great victory for the Americans.
> And so on.
> 
> One side's debacle is the other side's great victory.  
> 
> (My historian side demands I say this.  My Canadian side still winces
when I
> hear the words Dieppe, especially since my hometown of Windsor is
where the
> Essex/Kent Scottish (one of the reg't involved in the raid) was and
still
> is home based.)
> 
No kidding - Dieppe, while I understand the thinking behind the raid
(recon-in-force, basically), still causes me to wince...

There is some justice in the world, however: After D-Day, the Canadians
got the job of clearing the French Channel ports - so we went back to
Dieppe, properly this time - and from the land side...

My DS2 force, nomially NAC, has its vehicles named after Canadian,
British
& (some) US generals/officers, mostly from ww2, some from other eras. So
the Wellington SuperHvy tank, MacKenzie MBT, Crerar & Patton APCs,
etc...

I don't play FT personally, but when I did with a friend's ships, I
tended
to name my vessels after cities, provinces/states, and famous RN, RCN, &
USN ships...I think I had the CL 'Toronto' blown up several times...also
the 'Vancouver', the Montreal, the New York, etc (I lost a lot of
cruisers
of various types, all named after cities...)

Later,

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)