HMS Pansy; the Truth of the Flower Classes in WWI & WWII

[cwjian]

Hard to see today how the Royal Navy will build enough ships to require dipping into that bowl of names

[Temeluchas]

Well, one of soviet Project 56 destroyers had one of the absolute "best" ship names of all times and all navies. Apparently, the Soviet Navy ran out of cool adjectives to name all Project 56s, so one of them was named "Возбужденный", meaning "Excited", "Agitated" and... "Aroused".

So one can only imagine the nicknames and the amount of fun everybody had at the expense of the ship and sailors wearing hats with her name =)

[marcusfranconium]

The problem with so many ships around you do tend to run out of names ( age of sail had quite many werid and wonderfull names for warships) . then again a dutch 1915 torpedo boat Z5 that escaped the netherlands was transfered to the royal navy and was renamed HMS blade. a bit of a strange event as the other Z5 class torpedo boats transfered to the royal navy kept their number designation . Z5 or HMS Blade survived the war and after returning her to the netherlands she was sold and scrapped in scotland. .

[bjturon]

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[DanielsPolitics]

Is it nevertheless true that it was renamed because the admiralty realised?

[currybr]

Perhaps Churchill should have come up with a politician class of sloops.

HMS Boneless Wonder (Ramsay Mac)
HMS Undertaker (Neville C)
HMS Goat (Lloyd George)
HMS Holy Fox (Halifax)
HMS Soapy Sam (Simon)
HMS Ivor Novello (Eden)

[bjturon]

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