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Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:35 pm
by alecsandros
My favorite names are:
- Warspite
- Haruna
- Vengeance (though canceled)
- Graf Spee
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:34 am
by Karl Heidenreich
I like very much Agincourt.
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:09 pm
by RF
But not if you are French.......
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:14 pm
by RF
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......
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:35 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
But not if you are French.......
CanĀ“t care less...
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:36 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
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?
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:53 pm
by RF
Can you imagine Tovey carrying it out? And the headline in the Sun newspaper........
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:44 pm
by Patrick McWilliams
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!
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:43 am
by RF
Yes indeed Patrick.
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:06 pm
by Gary
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
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:19 am
by RF
Your mentioning of Richelieu is appropriate, as the statesman reference in the name approximates to Bismarck respectively of France and Germany......
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:59 pm
by P a R
AJAX-LEANDER-ACHILLES,etc
I like RN ships to named after characters from Greece mythology!!
Cheers Phil
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:22 am
by RF
P a R,
You would no doubt like the names of some of the ships of the Blue Funnel line, also so named.
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:41 pm
by yellowtail3
Bonhomme Richard
Re: Greatest Warship Name Ever
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:14 pm
by hammy
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