This post (from
here--which is pretty old, FYI...)
Looking through a TL, wait until May 1941, Only to see those dreaded words "Hood sunk by Bismarck"
It's like the Denmark Strait is completely unaffected by the other (sometimes massive) differences from OTL.
Rant over.
made me think three things.
First was, "Would you be happier if it was
Tirpitz?"
Then I wondered, "Could it
be Tirpitz? Could that name have been assigned first, instead?"
Then I wondered, "What might she &
Bismarck have been named, if those two names hadn't been chosen?"
Which leads me to this thread idea... What names might OTL ships, or classes, have gotten, instead? Presuming existing naming systems don't change. And presuming no radical changes in governments (so the USN won't have a
Benedict Arnold-class FBM


).
Pick the major power of your choice. CVs, BBs, famous DDs & subs, so (frex)
England or
Wahoo; cruisers if you want (I just don't care enough about them

); classes of DDs or subs; preferably nothing smaller except for really special cases (frex, the Israeli Navy missile boats {Yes, Virginia, Israel does actually have a navy.


}).
Surprise us all with how creative you can be.
