th name of german plan z battleships

Remember that Schlachtschiff A, Deutschland, was renamed to Lutzow shortly after the war began, to avoid the public morale effect of a ship named after Germany being sunk. I think the H-class would probably be named after peoplem like B through G were; Hindenburg and Friedrich der Grosse are common names in ATLs, and I've seen a TL in which they were named after the Norse gods - Odin, etc.
 
Some of the old battleship and battlecruiser names from WW I probably would have been used. Though Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Moltke, Fredreich der Grosse are four names I can think of off the bat. The type O BCs would have been named differently, the carriers after famous aviation pioneers (Graf Zeppelin as the lead ship, Peter Strasser was the reported name of the second of the class, while the liners that were considered for carrier conversion were to have kept their original names (Europa, Potsdam). Light cruisers would have maintained the tradition of city names, while the Heavies would have got the names of famous generals, admrials, or princes. Destroyers would simply have had a Z-number.
 

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Remember that Schlachtschiff A, Deutschland, was renamed to Lutzow shortly after the war began, to avoid the public morale effect of a ship named after Germany being sunk. I think the H-class would probably be named after peoplem like B through G were; Hindenburg and Friedrich der Grosse are common names in ATLs, and I've seen a TL in which they were named after the Norse gods - Odin, etc.

How demoralising it must have been to be a crewmember onboard a ship that changes name so that it can be sunk - and even to a name last used by a ship that was sunk!

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Steffen Redbeard
 
How demoralising it must have been to be a crewmember onboard a ship that changes name so that it can be sunk - and even to a name last used by a ship that was sunk!

Regards

Steffen Redbeard

Regarding the latter, interesting mix of things in history

For example, although Camperdown was a great victory at sea, there was no replacement battleship of that name after the Victoria rammed and sank said vessel in the Med

But the Russians didn't seem too bothered about the loss of Gangut in the 1890s and named another one so. And several of the ships lost at Port Arthur or TsuShima got new ones named or planned in the dreadnought era (Navarin, Poltava etc)

Invincible was of course lost at Jutland and later reused, and so with Indefatigable. Queen Mary I guess got obselete

As for the Germans... Cruiser names (cities) were definitely reused - Emden in WW1 though I guess it was viewed as a heroic ship, Koln though went down at Heligoland Bight and then spawned a whole new class of later WW1 light cruisers

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Grey Wolf
 
Invincible was of course lost at Jutland and later reused, and so with Indefatigable. Queen Mary I guess got obselete

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Grey Wolf

The name Queen Mary was later used by Cunard and probably is so greatly identified with the liner that it most likely won't be used by the British on another capital ship. Victoria won't make another appearance unless there is some monarch named that again - tho then again there is a liner similarly named. Alexandra definitely is left for the books.
 
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