Non-presidential Names for USN Carriers?

I had an idea for starting a thread about alternate names for USN aircraft carriers but you beat me too it! So here is a list of non-presidential/politician names. I think Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy would probably keep their OTL names due to the timing of their entry into service so I am giving them a pass.

CVN-69 Dwight D. Eisenhower: USS William Halsey

CVN-70 Carl Vinson: USS Bunker Hill (name the OTL Cruiser after Mr. Vinson)

CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt: USS Franklin. (Return of "The Ship that would not die)

CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln: USS Yorktown

CVN-73 George Washington: USS Lexington

CVN-74 John C. Stennis: USS Concord (Finally name a carrier after the second battle of the
American Revolution)

CVN-75 Harry S. Truman: USS Hornet

CVN 76 Ronald Reagan: USS Wasp (Save the name for the carrier do not use for LHD)

CVN-77 George H.W. Bush: USS Oriskany

CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford: USS Langley

CVN-79 John F Kennedy: USS Intrepid

Enterprise is one of those classic names I referenced...

This would certainly boost morale to fight on one of the successor ship to one of the WWII legends.
 
Eh there is a reason for that, the USN names carriers after presidents who served in the Navy (Bush, Ford) or who massively built up the Navy (Lincoln, Teddy, Eisenhower, Reagan, Washington), not Presidents who weakened it as much as they could get away with
Jefferson did send the Navy to fight the Barbary pirates. That should count for something.
 

Saphroneth

Banned
And HMS President!
It is also eternally funny to me that there was a CSS United States for a couple of months.


Hm, here's an idea. Naming carriers after ideas for states that were never taken up. So USS Deseret, Franklin, Jefferson, Superior, Delmarva, Abroska, Sequoyah and Lincoln.
 
Jefferson did send the Navy to fight the Barbary pirates. That should count for something.
It would, except almost all of the ships involved were ordered under Washington or Adams, and he paid the tribute anyways, then slashed the navy to the bone and left it ill prepared for 1812
 

Saphroneth

Banned
You are probably right. I don't think a Brit would want to bring up the Leopard. Rue Britannia for that one.
I do sometimes wonder about an ATL where the Jefferson administration agreed to the "rigid citizenship rules" law. No Chesapeake-Leopard and no War of 1812, for one.

But here's another somewhat silly suggestion or two for a source of ATL ship names:


Indian tribes (USS Cherokee, USS Seneca, USS Iroquois - a lot of them are also old US ship names but I think they'd mostly fallen out of use by OTL WW2)
Failed US presidential candidates (USS Fremont, USS McClellan again, USS Burr)
Ships that never got launched or completed (USS Stevens Battery, USS Puritan, USS New Orleans, USS Columbus)
 
You could have the McClellan as well. (no jokes please). He did make use of a grand amphibious operation, after all.
That strikes me as an LPH, not a CVN.

What about reusing CVL/CVE names? Lacking gravitas?

Given the low number of CVNs likely to be built, simply recycling the early (earliest) CV names makes more sense to me, & stays in keeping with USN tradition of reusing names of famous ships.
 

SsgtC

Banned
That strikes me as an LPH, not a CVN.

What about reusing CVL/CVE names? Lacking gravitas?

Given the low number of CVNs likely to be built, simply recycling the early (earliest) CV names makes more sense to me, & stays in keeping with USN tradition of reusing names of famous ships.

I agree, but it's easier to get politicians to open the purse strings if they think there may one day be an aircraft carrier named after them. Because when they're daydreaming about USS Your Name Here, they're not thinking about just how big that check they just cut was
 
I agree, but it's easier to get politicians to open the purse strings if they think there may one day be an aircraft carrier named after them. Because when they're daydreaming about USS Your Name Here, they're not thinking about just how big that check they just cut was
Oh, I know, that's why there's a USS Glenard P. Lipscomb. In an ideal world, there wouldn't be--& aren't ATL's ideal?;)
 
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