Gunfreak  | 21 Aug 2017 1:26 a.m. PST |
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| advocate | 21 Aug 2017 3:40 a.m. PST |
Boaty McBoat Face, of course! |
 The Nigerian Lead Minister | 21 Aug 2017 6:26 a.m. PST |
Judging by what I know of Royal Navy cuisine back in the day, they should have had HMS Inedible and HMS Indigestion. |
| Cyrus the Great | 21 Aug 2017 6:27 a.m. PST |
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 x42brown | 21 Aug 2017 6:45 a.m. PST |
Just a note there never was an HMS Pansy. A ship was ordered that was to be called that but the name was changed to HMS Heartsease before commissioning and served most of the war as USS Courage. x42 |
| robert piepenbrink | 21 Aug 2017 7:57 a.m. PST |
I can't believe the Shangri-la (CV-38) didn't make the list. Not many serious warships named after a fantasy novel--or a musical. |
| pvernon | 21 Aug 2017 8:39 a.m. PST |
Robert, I think USS Pinafore counts, even if it was just a tugboat. |
| robert piepenbrink | 21 Aug 2017 9:28 a.m. PST |
Maybe. But if someone tells me to report to the USS DOL AMROTH or the BREE, I'll be double-checking first. |
| SeattleGamer | 21 Aug 2017 11:33 a.m. PST |
Not a warship, obviously, but the best name I've ever seen on the stern of a private boat was "Unsinkable II". Makes you wonder what happened to the Unsinkable. Did it sink? |
| Frederick | 22 Aug 2017 6:20 a.m. PST |
There is a whole line of jokes about that in the Gotrek and Felix novel series "Then we made the Indestructible. What happened? It blew up" |
| robert piepenbrink | 22 Aug 2017 9:52 a.m. PST |
Not included in the poll, and rightly so, but does anyone else remember Aelred Glidden's Age of Fighting Sail AAR's in MWAN? The British fleet included HMS Incontinent, Insufferable and such, while the French Fleet included de Maintenon, de Montespan and so forth--every vessel in a fairly substantial force named after a royal mistress, and he only used two reigns! |
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