Re: Re: FT: Ship Names

Dolorous Hauberk, but you're right, Azhanti High Lightning had some
fascinating ship names. AFAIK the Russians have always named their
destroyers, usually after qualities - e.g. Bravy (brave) or naval heroes
of junior rank - e.g. Leitenant Ilyin. The Germans are the folks who
mostly simply numbered their destroyers. In WWI the letter indicated the
builder, for example S for Schichau,G for Germania, V for Vulkan, and B
for Bloehm and Voss. So S113 for instance, was the 113th destroyer and
it was built by the Schichau yards. The pre-WWII German destroyers were
given both names and numbers such as Z6 Theodor Riedel, but all the
war-built destroyers had simply numbers, prefixed by the letter Z for
"Zerstoerer" (destroyer)like Z25. Germans also numbered torpedo boats
(T), and gunboats (K) although sometimes these were named as well,
escorts (G) and minesweepers (M).
-------Original Message-------
From: devans@nebraska.edu
Sent: 04/29/03 10:35 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: FT: Ship Names

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>With the  Re- Supply ships Vegimite and F*****s.....)

Now, Don, you should know better than to use that kind of language with
our
friends in Oz...

By the way, my personal FH:ESU unit had no names on purpose, as I
thought
the Soviet Naval model didn't have official names for DD's and smaller.
I
think they only used hull designations, but I could be way off base.
There
were two heavy and one escort cruisers in the unit, but they were, in my
fluff, ex officio additions to a Desron, and their 'names' were made to
disappear by the enterprising commander.

By the way, I don't think this made it into Indy's list; probably didn't
make sense with what he had.

I must say, though,  that in the case of some non-FH units, I've had
great
fun borrowing from Traveller, especially the list of Azhanti High
Lightning
class ships. Was it Dolores Hauberk? Gotta love it!

The_Beast

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