Re: Ship Names (was Re: RE-Ship types names)

From: "Ranitzsch, Karl Heinz" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>

> A Gaukler really is jongleur, jester, joker or court fool, i.e. a
person,
> not an animal. Could be that it is either a regional name for some
kind of
> bird or the name used for some exotic bird, but I don't know for sure.

Gaukler in this context is the Bird, known I *think* in English as the
Mugwump.

> Sekretaer is, by the way, both an African bird and a (male) secretary.

Secretary Bird in English.

> A Gepard is the ultra-fast African/Asian 'hunting leopard' spotted
cat. I
> believe it is called the same in English.

Cheetah in English.