Re: FT: Ship Names

At 1:22 PM +0100 4/29/03, Robin Fitton wrote:
>I am so full of subjects today.....
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>When I finish painting I name my ships and stick a little printed strip
of
>paper on the base, there is  no official naming ceremony but I like to
think
>that I can identify the craft and will remember its victories and
defeats by
>name. I also then use Illustrator to print a copy of the FT ship build
>details and print / laminate the result.
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>My names mostly come from books by Iain Banks (Culture Works) , Ian
Hamilton
>(Nightsdawn) and Stephen Donaldson (Gap Series).  These include such
great
>names as; Tranquil Hegemony, The Ends of Invention, Gut Buster, Lux
>Interior, Calm Horizons and No More Mr Nice Guy.

I added some names to a standard cheat sheet for certain types. As I 
mostly run NAC, the ship names I tend to use as based on current and 
past names for craft. As there is an Invicible class CVL, it stands 
to reason that the NAC is using a mix of historical names. Some I've 
pulled out of history, Black Prince, Iron Duke for a fast Battle 
Cruiser model I bashed together, others are still in use, Hermes. For 
a FAC tender based loosely on the Invincible, the class is named 
Mekong Delta (based on the standard of naming assault ships for 
battles/beach assaults, this works well as that was a key location of 
20th century brown water navy ops). Or for other ships that went 
before, Ocean Class as the basic assault ship modeled off of the 
Invicible hull (more bits added, small single flight deck for 1 
fighter group and a big open bay/well deck for landing shuttles.
I also have a Cassin Young and Wainright classes of DDs and DDL/Hs 
(Leader/Heavy DD).

A good source of names is www.hazegray.org.
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