Alternate ship names?

NEVER the Bounty!!!!!
Type 22 Bounty class frigates

Batch 1
Bounty
Mars
Marathon (renamed Snickers on sale to Brazil in the 1990s)
Opal Fruits (renamed Starurst on sale to Brazil in the 1990s)

Batch 2
Milky Way
Milky Bar (The Milky Bars are on me)
Fruit and Nut (Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case)
Dairy Milk
Bournville
Whole Nut (Cadbury make them and they cover them with chocolate)

Batch 3
Lion
Kit Kat
Smarties
Galaxy
 
Agincourt & Resistance were cancelled OTL; what new ships might get those names, instead?
One of the seized Turkish dreadnoughts was named Agincourt. There was a Battle class destroyer named Agincourt. She was one of the 4 ships of that class converted to a radar picket.

Resistance is a possible name for the 5th British Polaris submarine that was cancelled in 1965. But the Wikipaedia entry says she was to have been called Ramillies.

Possible alternative names for the British Polaris submarines: Agincourt, Blenheim, Ramillies, Trafalgar and Waterloo.
 
A low class cruise ship line ships

SS Buzzed
SS Hangover
SS Adultery
SS Social Disease
SS Upchuck

A new class of USN Fire Support Ships

USS Audey Murphy FSS 1001
USS Alvin York FSS 1002
USS Daniel Boone FSS 1003
USS Carlos Hathcock FSS 1004
USS Nathaniel Bumpo FSS 1005
USS Sharpes FSS 1006
USS Hawken FSS 1007
USS Long Tom FSS 1008

USN amphibs named after USMC Medal of Honor winners instead of island landings
 
How about HMS Boaty McBoatface II in future memory of an attack by whoever for whatever reason on the original vessel after the Royal Navy opens a poll to name their next vessel...
That was a sad day for the British people, and for David Attenborough.

60 years of hard work and gets outed by Boaty McBoatface.
At least it wasn't HMS Jedwood
IIRC a similar competition in the 1990s was won by HMS Millennium Falcon.
 
SSN 21 Seawolf class renaming the second and third one

SSN 22 Skate (named after the 3rd SSN built being the Seawolf was the 2nd OTL it's the Connecticut )
SSN 23 Triton (OTL Jimmy Carter - he was a submariner but still give him a Carrier) (Subclass with extended hull so it does not follow the fish name pattern)

The Virginia class gets a small change it becomes to Connecticut class as the lead ship becomes the USS Connecticut SSN 774 then the 775 becomes the Virginia instead of the Texas.Texas could be used somewhere down the line.
 
What´s wrong with HMS Millennium Falcon at least it isn´t HMS MIllennium Dome ;-)
I think Millennium Falcon is a pretty good name for a ship, though likely the Americans would have her, rather than the British.
Because, ya know.
Nazis. In. Spaaace!
 
What´s wrong with HMS Millennium Falcon at least it isn´t HMS MIllennium Dome ;-)
I think Millennium Falcon is a pretty good name for a ship, though likely the Americans would have her, rather than the British.
Because, ya know.
Nazis. In. Spaaace!
Although Star Wars is nominally an American film it can be argued that it's really a British one because it was shot in a British studio, which is why most of the supporting parts were played by British actors. The Millenium Falcon set would have been built by British labour so it could be argued that the "actual" Millennium Falcon was a British spaceship.

It could be part of a class with sister ships named Anastasia, Liberator and TARDIS. (For the benefit of the non-British members of the board Anastasia was the personal transport of Dan Dare who was sort of a British equivalent to Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.)

And for those of you that don't know what the Liberator was...

 

Redbeard

Banned
I've always been quite impressed with the RN tradition of "letter classes" i.e. A-V class destroyers or the Inflexible, Invincible, Indefatigable etc battlecruisers. But above all stand IMHO "the big cats": HMS Lion and HMS Tiger. There of course should have been a HMS Leopard, HMS Panther, HMS Jaguar and a HMS Puma. Among sailors AKA the "Pussy class".

Other ferocious animals to consider: Rearing Stallion, Raging Bull, Charging Ram and Stinking Skunk.

In the naval arm of a merchant republic the foremost ships of course ought to be named: Profit and Credit

;)
 
In a world where the efforts of southern "Redemption" ending reconstruction were crushed, a USS John Brown and a USS Nat Turner, on ships with substantial shore bombardment capabilities, would send a message. Either that, or put the names on amphibious landing ships. (Or if the south did manage to get independence, names say "Our heroes are not forgotten--we will be back!)
If the south somehow manages to stay an independent and viable state into the nuclear age, put the names on ballistic missile boats.
 
That's one that always bit me. If the naming system remained consistent, how do you go from Lex & Sara to Hornet & Wasp? (Okay, reusing old names, but...) Something like Breed's Hill or Princeton might make sense...
Funny thing; the Hornet and Wasp were named after aircraft engines made by Pratt&Whitney! Here's a list of those engines.
 
Funny thing; the Hornet and Wasp were named after aircraft engines made by Pratt&Whitney! Here's a list of those engines.
No they were named in the same scheme used on most of the older CVs, previous ships of the USN that distinguished themselves, 8 USS Wasps between 1775 and 1917 and 6 USS Hornets between 1775 and 1898. Same with Lexington (4 ships), Saratoga (4 ships) Enterprise, Yorktown, Essex, Intrepid, Bonhomme Richard and others
 
For thematic names, I've always liked the Tribals & Flowers. (If you're naming corvettes, would there be enough names to limit to weeds?;))

Has there ever been a class named for beetles?
 
For thematic names, I've always liked the Tribals & Flowers. (If you're naming corvettes, would there be enough names to limit to weeds?;))

Has there ever been a class named for beetles?

The John, Paul, George and Ringo? or would you those connected to them also?
 
The John, Paul, George and Ringo? or would you those connected to them also?
I think that's Cricket class. Or maybe Locust.:openedeyewink:

Although catapult main battery seems indicated.:openedeyewink:

It occurs to me there might be a class named for impaired animals. Deaf Leopard, Dead Lizard, Blind Pig...
 
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I think that's Cricket class. Or maybe Locust.:openedeyewink:

Although catapult main battery seems indicated.:openedeyewink:

It occurs to me there might be a class named for impaired animals. Deaf Leopard, Dead Lizard, Blind Pig...

In today's athmosphere wouldn't it be good PR for RN to reuse names from conservative 1950's? Such as Gay-class, including Gay Bruiser, Gay Fencer etc...
 
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