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My favorite names are:

- Warspite
- Haruna
- Vengeance (though canceled)
- Graf Spee

I like very much Agincourt.

But not if you are French.......

I have seen some accounts of the German naval Z Plan in which it was claimed that among the projected names for the H classe battleships was one of ''Der Fuhrer'' presumably in honour of and in deference to Hitler.

Quite what Hitler's superstitions and fears would have made of such a ship is interesting, particulary as the Allies could have had a policy of ''Sink the Fuhrer'' the very threat of which wouldn't comfortably sit with Geobbels' propaganda......

But not if you are French.......

Can´t care less...

Quite what Hitler's superstitions and fears would have made of such a ship is interesting, particulary as the Allies could have had a policy of ''Sink the Fuhrer'' the very threat of which wouldn't comfortably sit with Geobbels' propaganda......

Can you imagine Churchill telling that to Tovey?

Can you imagine Tovey carrying it out? And the headline in the Sun newspaper........

No doubt about it, it has to be Dreadnought: not merely for Admiral Jackie Fisher's oft-quoted remark that she should "dread nought", i.e. fear God only, but for giving a generic class name to every battleships built subsequently!

Yes indeed Patrick.

Yes "Iron Duke" sounds wonderful and is probably hard to beat.

Repulse and Revenge have certain strong qualities to them.

Yamato is a very catchy name as is Richelieu

Your mentioning of Richelieu is appropriate, as the statesman reference in the name approximates to Bismarck respectively of France and Germany......

AJAX-LEANDER-ACHILLES,etc

I like RN ships to named after characters from Greece mythology!!

Cheers Phil

P a R,

You would no doubt like the names of some of the ships of the Blue Funnel line, also so named.

Italian Light cruisers -- poetry to look at , poetic names too .

Giovanni Della Bande Nere

Alberico Da Barbiano

Raimundo Montecuccoli

Emanuele Filiberto Duca D'Aosta

Eugenio Di Savoia

Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi