What would you call a much bigger Dreadnought

Here is the Habbakuk in action in the TL of Admiral U. Fushita's Fleet.
There are plans out there to make floating bases, JMOB (joint mobile offshore base).
These sound like something out of the- Tom Swift - Books================ IIRC --Tom Swift and the Floating Airport.
 
I like Juggernaut. There's also Behemoth, Titan, Gargantuan, and Colossus. For carriers there's Mothership, Hive, Aerie... Thats all I got for now
 

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The floating base sounds like what they had in the Ammanda garret novel about peacekeeping in west africa Sea fighter is the title
 
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Assuming you've still got aircraft carriers, there's a really likely name: target.:D

Yes, I think the real question we need to decide is what type of ship this would be. If you could somehow delay the development of missiles then you could get a nuclear powered one. But I think that we should talk about battleships, because lets face it. Battleships look way better then aircraft carriers.
 
Sea Control Ships

In the old "Star Fleet Battles" board game, Space Control Ships were a dreadnought based ship, with close to the same armament and shields, but with one squadron of fighters and a squadron of "Fast Patrol Ships," a PT boat equivalent.
So, perhaps "Sea Control Ship" might work?
 
Let's suppose a JFK-type character, except that instead of a PT boat, he's on a corvette. He's elected president, and the Navy names its new super-battleship after his old command to please him/get the money flowing. However, his old command was a flower-class corvette.

Pansy class superdreads anyone?
 
Assuming Railguns are built in the Future-- We could have a type of ships called Railships, couple of very large railguns, able to launch cruise missile variants, without any propulsion on-board, and also have a lot of smaller railguns used as conventional artillery, in a way supplanting both carriers and battleships. It'll likely be powered by huge nuke reactor complex to provide the electric power, thus necessitating rather large sizes.
 
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