Re: Ship Class Nomenclature

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:37:21PM -0400, Laserlight wrote:
>> Reading Schott's Original Miscellany, I came across Wine Bottle
>Sizes, and thought that they would make a good series for naming
>classes, they are from smallest to largest:
>Or gun sizes for early cannons -- depending on your source, something
>like:

Brewer's Phrase and Fable is a great source for lists of this type.
Famous swords, parts of the hawk, the Cato Street conspirators...

...but nothing beats the battleship named _Sredni Vashtar_. :-)

R