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2010-03-22 Britain

RN Naming Dispute: Ark Royal v Prince of Wales

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 And the same battle rages in the US over naming our navy's ships. There is no 'Hornet', 'Ranger', Lexington,' just to mention a few. Intrepid is a museum, so naming a successor would be problematic.
Just so long as we never, ever, have a Barry Obama. One question immediately comes to mind if that were to happen : where would it be built and what would the papers say? ( if we could even see the papers)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-03-22 00:37|| 2010-03-22 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't know, a combination garbage/sewage incinerator ship would be appropriate as the USS Obama.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-03-22 00:44|| 2010-03-22 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 What about HMS Blasphemous?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-03-22 01:43|| 2010-03-22 01:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Captain Clink- now there is a name out of military history.

Posted by Grunter 2010-03-22 07:38|| 2010-03-22 07:38|| Front Page Top

#5 USN, Ret., Isn't the Lexington also a museum? In Corpus Christi?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-03-22 07:48|| 2010-03-22 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Rumor has it that the America class LHAs will get the great old carrier names, including Enterprise. Way too much precedent has been laid down now for naming CVNs after politicians.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-03-22 08:15|| 2010-03-22 08:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Two additional submarines of the Yuri Dolgorukiy class are reported to be under construction at Sevmash -- the Alexandr Nevskiy and the Vladimir Monomakh. A fourth unit is planned.

The Barryn Soetorov?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-22 08:24|| 2010-03-22 08:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Blackadder and the Baldrick are still available, arguably the most famous Englishmen ever.

Just so long as we never, ever, have a Barry Obama.

The way his poll numbers are sinking, a submarine, ala Jimmy Carter, would be a bad idea.

Posted by ed 2010-03-22 10:07|| 2010-03-22 10:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't worry with the looming price of health care, the US will have to cut it's military force significantly. We shall have everything the EU has (problems and all). FOAD Nancy Pelosi

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-03-22 10:25|| 2010-03-22 10:25|| Front Page Top

#10 The Barryn Soetorov?

byt' mozhet, the ChomskyObamsky

Posted by lex 2010-03-22 14:35|| 2010-03-22 14:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Very appropriate Lex. Let's go with your selection of ChomskyObamsky. If we plan well enough ahead, perhaps we could convince Rahm to dance Nureyev's 'The Sleeping Beauty' from the bridge as she slips down the quay.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-22 15:10|| 2010-03-22 15:10|| Front Page Top

#12 With Biden as Court Jester, Hillary s the Stepmother and Michelle as The Wookie. Scenery by Shep Fairey

Posted by lex 2010-03-22 15:46|| 2010-03-22 15:46|| Front Page Top

#13 POW & Repulse... they go together.

Posted by Shipman 2010-03-22 16:41|| 2010-03-22 16:41|| Front Page Top

#14 POW & Repulse... they go together. Ahem,,, that did not work out so wel the last time.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2010-03-22 19:14|| 2010-03-22 19:14|| Front Page Top

#15 that did not work out so wel the last time.

Somehow, I suspect a nym like Shipman may have been aware of that.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-03-22 20:50|| 2010-03-22 20:50|| Front Page Top

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