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Re: Enterprise CVN-80
Good point. Carrier naming is very political in the US and I assume it would be similar to the British political system.
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Not as much actually - Parliament doesn't hold nearly as much sway over the details of foreign policy as Congress does. They're there to debate legislation and rubber-stamp the budget, not to micro-manage government policy. The closest we've come to "political" influence over a ship's name was a (successful) grass-roots letter writing campaign when the old Ark was due to be scrapped to keep the name alive, which had nothing to do with Parliament.McAvoy wrote:Carrier naming is very political in the US and I assume it would be similar to the British political system.
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With the Ark Royal, if I were the RN, I'd wait until a ship worthy of the history came along. Putting the name to a jeep carrier or a destroyer would be just plain insulting to a legacy of that scale.
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That's why I'm miffed about the QEs - they're proper fleet carriers. Not up to the scale of a Nimitz, but the largest warships we've ever built, and far more impressive than the Invincible-class escort carriers (which included the fifth Ark Royal).Deepcrush wrote:With the Ark Royal, if I were the RN, I'd wait until a ship worthy of the history came along. Putting the name to a jeep carrier or a destroyer would be just plain insulting to a legacy of that scale.
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While I'm not bothered as to the RN building a fleet of ships to match a Nimitz. I am very strongly of the opinion if England wants to reclaim a spot as a world power, then their should be at least one ship in the fleet to match that of the USN. That being as much to show that the RN can do so as much as actively doing so.
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So you have not named ships after living politicians? Just wondering. I understand about naming the two carriers after living monarchy families as that is tradition.
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Not sure if thats a rule or just whats happened so far.
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There's been some talk of doing just that.Captain Seafort wrote:That's why I'm miffed about the QEs - they're proper fleet carriers. Not up to the scale of a Nimitz, but the largest warships we've ever built, and far more impressive than the Invincible-class escort carriers (which included the fifth Ark Royal).Deepcrush wrote:With the Ark Royal, if I were the RN, I'd wait until a ship worthy of the history came along. Putting the name to a jeep carrier or a destroyer would be just plain insulting to a legacy of that scale.
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I cant see Charles giving a shit, he's always hated the lime light.
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Aye. The ship isn't even named for him personally.
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That's if you guys even get those ships. I keep hearing one will go into mothballs and the other sold or rented. Or one or both will be scrapped.
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The official line on what those ships are going to be, what they'll fly, and what's going to happen with them changes every few months.McAvoy wrote:That's if you guys even get those ships. I keep hearing one will go into mothballs and the other sold or rented. Or one or both will be scrapped.
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Re: Enterprise CVN-80
Nope. Most of our larger surface combatants are named after places at the moment (cities such as HMS Edinburgh or counties such as HMS Kent). Our submarines and now the latest line of DDG's all have a name or quality that begins with the same letter as the class name. The Daring class ships so far are Daring, Dauntless, Diamond and Dragon; submarines have been named this way for quite some time. The carriers are usually named for Monarchs are named after past carriers. Other ships have quality based names like Endurance. I think politicians are greeted with such apathy by our general population naming warships after them would garner a public outcry.McAvoy wrote:So you have not named ships after living politicians? Just wondering. I understand about naming the two carriers after living monarchy families as that is tradition.
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Heh. I imagine no one for a generation at least over here would want to serve on the USS George W Bush.Reliant121 wrote: I think politicians are greeted with such apathy by our general population naming warships after them would garner a public outcry.
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At least you haven't got a USS George W Bush to serve on. Yet.
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