I play mostly ESU and FSE,and I tend to name my ships after ocean critters,
particularly sharks. Little ships like couriers and frigates could be named
Remora and Barracuda,while cruisers could be named along the lines of Tiger
Shark,the Thresher,Bull,Goblin (a really scary looking shark found in really
deep waters off Japan). For the really big ships,the Great White is a must
(that's a Superdreadnought name for sure). For ships like carriers,the Whale
Shark and Basking Shark are appropriate.
Don't forget the Australian native tribes either...
HMAS ARUNTA and WARRAMUNGA were WW2 Tribal class Destroyers and the names are
being reused for ANZAC Frigates 03 and 05 currently under construction in
Melbourne. I believe that the ARUNTA tribe resides around Alice Springs and
the WARRAMUNGA tribal grounds are in the vicinity of Darwin
By the way, did anyone notice on the UK news last week, the crew of an RN
frigate complaining about current RN ship naming policy?
No-one else seems to have mentioned the Iain M Banks "Culture"
ship names yet this time around, so I'll just point out that they're
especially good.
My own Scottish space fleet uses whatever historical Scottish ship names I can
dig up (Great Michael, Yellow Carvel, Klinkbellis, Unicorn,
Ly-by-the-fire amongst others) plus the odd fictional or otherwise
appropriate name (Vital Spark, Cutty Sark), plus assorted Scottish heroes
(William Wallace, James IV, John Maclean, Alex Salmond [only slightly
;-)]).
I rather like the idea of a 6-ship Marx Brothers class: Groucho,
Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo and Karl...).
Rob
> Rob Paul wrote:
This is way off topic; but I'm curious; what didn't they like about RN naming
policy? (I thought the RN was sticking to their usual naming policy, unlike
the USN which is naming things after senators that they really like. *sigh*)
As for ship names; I tend to use a weird blend of USN and RN naming
traditions. If a ship class is named after people, I tend to use the names of
people I know, which leads to weird situations where a friend I'm
playing against proceeds to blow his namesake out of space. (8-)
J.
> At 12:42 06/04/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Jerry Han - jhan@idigital.net - http://www.idigital.net/jhan -
Not sufficiently "hard as nails", apparently. It sounded to me as if the Navy
should be teaching a bit more history to its recruits. Then again, I do think
we have plenty of better names and historic ships to honour before starting a
"Duke" (not even Duchy) class.
When a few of us got into then-modern naval (1/3000 minis and
Warship Commander rules) when I was at school, I confess I always chose the
most peculiar-sounding USN names I could find. USS Moosbrugger was a
favourite.
Rob
> This is way off topic; but I'm curious; what didn't they like about RN
The complaint was that RN ship names are getting too 'soft' - the
particular example was a ship called the 'Beaver', I believe (you can
understand why no-one wants to sail on the beaver - <insert your own
smutty comment here, if you must>). The suggestion was that the RN returned to
old fashioned macho names such as 'Thunderer', 'Invincible', 'Dreadnought'
etc. Somehow the idea of a 3000 ton frigate being called 'Dreadnought' doesn't
work IMHO.
> As for ship names; I tend to use a weird blend of USN and RN naming
Just to add my two penn'orth, I have a friend / opponent (depends on
who's winning) who has named his fleet after various curries. The
largest ships get named after the most potent dishes - thus
you have the BattleDreadnought 'Vindaloo', the Fleet Carrier 'Phal', the
Frigate 'Bhaji' and so on. After sixty or so ships, he's running out of names.
AFAIK his fleet doesn't repeat on you the next day, however.
> Jerry Han wrote:
...Snip...(JTL)
> As for ship names; I tend to use a weird blend of USN and RN naming
Jerry, Some people will go to any length to gain even the smallest
advantage. (But I would have liked to see the look on his face
when he was informed of the ship name.)
Bye for now,
On Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:11:53 +0000, Rob Paul
<rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> My own Scottish space fleet uses whatever historical Scottish ship
Make sure you throw in an Alexander Bell, and a John A. Macdonald (Macdonald
was born a Scot and went on to become Canada's first Prime Minister). These
are particularly good for NAC ships (note on Bell: born a Scot, invented the
telephone in the US, but first patented the phone and set up the first
telephone exchange in Canada; nice bit of unifying there).
On Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:55:30 +0000, Rob Paul
<rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Not sufficiently "hard as nails", apparently. It sounded to me as
Then
> again, I do think we have plenty of better names and historic ships to
What was the ship's name?
And you'd think that if ANYONE had a right to complain about their ship names
it would have been the crew of the Flower class destroyers during WWII. I mean
Gladiolus (an actual name) sure strikes fear in MY heart, how about you?
Allan o complain about their ship names
> it would have been the crew of the Flower class destroyers during
...Snips...(JTL)
> [quoted text omitted]
In a message dated 4/6/98 6:22:38 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> agoodall@sympatico.ca writes:
<< On Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:55:30 +0000, Rob Paul
<rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Not sufficiently "hard as nails", apparently. It sounded to me as
Then
> again, I do think we have plenty of better names and historic ships to
What was the ship's name?
And you'd think that if ANYONE had a right to complain about their ship names
it would have been the crew of the Flower class destroyers during WWII. I mean
Gladiolus (an actual name) sure strikes fear in MY heart, how about you?
Allan Goodall agoodall@sympatico.ca>>
Remembering a certain freind of mines most feared ship design, (The system
escapes me it was about 16 years ago, though the name/ship keeps
appearing in
his fiction and he keeps threatining a re-design :) a Mercenary Cruiser
by the name of: (As translated from an alien language of the game)
"Little yellow Flower, repose on a field of Crimson"
As I recall, ship and commander took out a fair number of Heavy Cruisers and
at least one Light Battleship as I recall. Guess who commanded the BB(L)
:)
Randy
Hmph!
As all good Canadians know Bell invented the telephone in Brantford Ontario
and then took it south to the States.
David Best
> ----------
These
> are particularly good for NAC ships (note on Bell: born a Scot,
I'll just jump in once about this thread. How about WWII Japanese ships. I
believe that many of them that weren't named after geographical areas had
names that translated into "nature themes" like Cherry Blossom or Breeze from
a mountain.
David Best
> ----------
Then
> >again, I do think we have plenty of better names and historic ships
> I'll just jump in once about this thread. How about WWII Japanese
Last year some time I found this website:
http://www.skypoint.com/members/jbp/ijnnames.htm
that gives a listing of Japanese ship names. Some are pretty cool (Hosho
-
'how a phoenix dives'), some are kinda there (Nisshin - 'daily fort
patrol').
But my ALL time fave, and one I've used in the past, has got to be:
Mizuho - 'Juicy rice ears'
This the name of a carrier.
Mk
> At 06:24 07/04/98 EDT, you wrote:
Then
> >again, I do think we have plenty of better names and historic ships
SNIP
I can't quite remember; they were happy enough with their own ship's name, and
she was a Type 22; Battleaxe? Broadsword?
Rob
> Allan Goodall wrote:
I think somebody replied 'HMS Beaver' or something like that, earlier on.
> And you'd think that if ANYONE had a right to complain about their
Actually, this brings to mind a Star Trek book, "The Great Starship Race",
where at one point a discussion (much like this one) erupts over ship names;
at which point one character (McCoy) mentions something about the SS
ButterCookie.
Ahhh, never mind. (8-)
Actually, in an attempt to bring this back toward FT (8-); has anybody
thought of, or come up with rules to do starship racing using FT rules?
Formula One with Rockets. Gah. (8-)
J.
> John Leary wrote:
I was kind of hoping he would be merciful, sparing his own ship. Didn't work.
BAM.
THEN you should have seen what he did to a ship I had named after somebody I
was going out with at the time. It wasn't catastrophic damage, but it was
pretty close. ("Four sixes?" "Yeah. Too bad this is a threshold
check." (8-) )
J.
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:35:38 +0000
> >
Will that be the one made from everyone else's out of production models??
KR :)
-Actually, in an attempt to bring this back toward FT (8-); has anybody
-thought of, or come up with rules to do starship racing using FT rules?
-Formula One with Rockets. Gah. (8-)
-J.
At one point, I played with some simple pylon/slalom racing setups, both
without and with combat, as a way of teaching some neighborhood kids the fine
points of maneuver, but never got much past the thinking stage. GDW's Mayday
had this so a person could concentrate on just learning to fly.
I should think getting really tricky would involve docking(coming full stop at
a particular point and orientation) after a particularly long and
complex approach path, with a turn-clock running. ;->=
The_Beast (LCF/SFA)
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Warning: dates on calendar are closer than they
> appear wrote:
Great site. One of my favorites for ship names. One of my favorite names comes
from a Japanese anime series called Irresponsible Captain Tyler (now available
in the US and worth the rental if you love comedies).
Soyokaze - Gentle Breeze
> >I'll just jump in once about this thread. How about WWII Japanese
like
> >Cherry Blossom or Breeze from a mountain.
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Shld Wulf wrote:
> In a message dated 4/6/98 6:22:38 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
One of my friends had one of the most "interesting" ship names: I Luv U (you
had to hear him pronouce it)
Me: I firing at that ship. Him: Which one? Me: The I Luv U
The trick I guess was to get females to play, but that hardly ever happens.
> As for ship names; I tend to use a weird blend of USN and RN naming
We've been saving these for when we do the New Indian Republic fleet....
:)
> BEST, David wrote:
May the list forgive you for what they are about to receive!
CV/CVL
Hosho: Flying Pheonix Ryujo: Fighting Dragon Soryu: Blue Dragon Zuiho:
Auspicious Pheonix Shoho: Propitious Pheonix Ryuho: Dragon Pheonix Shokaku:
Flying Crane Zuikaku: Auspicious Crane SUB TENDER Taigei: Big Whale Jingei:
Swift Whale
These are all that I have.
Bye for now,
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:06:23 -0400, "BEST, David" <dbest@shl.com> wrote:
> As all good Canadians know Bell invented the telephone in Brantford
I thought that the initial invention (the famous, "Watson, come here. I need
you." line) was in Boston, but the phone was perfected in Brantford. I've been
to the Bell museum in Brantford and it's quite interesting.
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 06:13:13 -0600, "BEST, David" <dbest@shl.com> wrote:
> I'll just jump in once about this thread. How about WWII Japanese
Yup. I used Japanese ship destroyer names for the names of the destroyers in
my Age of Iridium PBEM game back in 1996. My favourite was the Sazanami, which
means, "Curling Waves (ripples)" or "Pretty, Small Waves Raised by a Zephyr."
[snip]
> We've been saving these for when we do the New Indian Republic
Insidious American propaganda designed to sap the strength of we who live in
God's Own Country hehehehehe!
David Best
> ----------
I've
> been