Re: UN Ship Nomenclature

You wrote: 

>Niall,
>     As a point of interest,  I have been informed that 'Afrikans' 
>is a full fledged language derived from Dutch. 

It's spelt Afrikaans, and starts as a degenerate form of Dutch, with a 
French influence, a heavy English influence, and loan-words from a 
half-dozen native African languages.  It is the native tongue of the 
Afrikaaners, aka the Boers, aka those White guys that usta to run South 
Africa.

John M. Atkinson