Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] New-style FSE SDN ready!! :-)

sax@soundingrocket.com wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
 >>> Well, you've already got the Athena class, but otherwise the 
wonderful  world(s) of Graeco-Roman mythology remain untouched. So how 
about:
 >>> Zeus class -- Zeus, Jupiter, Jove, Poseidon, Neptune, Hades, Pluto,

Uranus <<<

 >> Not to be too silly about it, but Uranus?  God, jokes about that 
ship could almost kill the sheep meme around here.
 >> Honestly, has there *ever* been a ship, class, whatever named
Uranus? <<

 > See http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/u1/uranus.htm <

Interestingly, the RN, who in the past have plundered the classics for 
ship names like they were about to expire, doesn't seem to have used 
that name. The only mention I could find of an "HMS Uranus" was in a 
novel by Stephen Coulter called "The Shroud", in which the Uranus is a 
nuclear sub that "plunges to the bottom of the ocean in forbidden 
waters." Sounds a tad foreboding... <g>

Phil

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