Aircraft Carrier naming

In article ,
(Penta) wrote:

Policy? What policy?
Besides the fact that most of the names suck. (When compared to, say,
the British naming traditions.)

We need standards. Badly.

You used to have quite reasonable ones, as far as I've deduced from
reading:

Battleships: States
Carriers: Battles
Cruisers: Cities
Destroyers: Err, well, anything - there are so many of them.
Submarines: Fish
Small craft: Integers.

And re-using the States and Cities for missile and attack subs was also
plausible, since they could fairly claim to have inherited similarly
important (though not really analogous) roles.

The really old names, like _Constitution_ and _President_ were quite
reasonable too, although there probably aren't that many "republican"
names that wouldn't sound silly. A few of those got used on semi-recent
carriers like _Independence_ and _America_, and you always ought to have a
carrier named _Kitty Hawk_.

But the naming of things after political figures has definitely gone too
far.

---
John Dallman

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:44:27 -0500, Penta wrote:

We need standards. Badly.

We have standards, and they'e followed fairly well. Yes, there are exceptions
and oddball cases (always have been), but those are only exceptions. The big
gripe seems to be naming for politicians, which is unavoidable.

--
Andrew Toppan --- --- "I speak only for myself"
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Would it not be great to have
in the fleet carriers again named USS Hornet, Lexington, Saratoga,
Oriskany. It would honor the sailors that served on these great ships.
BRBR

You bet, along with the Shangri-La....
P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer

You bet, along with the Shangri-La....
P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer

AND America

Hay, 'Old Phart'! Which carriers did you fly off/on? I was on ten? or so
(maybe more (can't remember exactly)).

"Pechs1" wrote in message
...
Would it not be great to have
in the fleet carriers again named USS Hornet, Lexington, Saratoga,
Oriskany. It would honor the sailors that served on these great ships.
BRBR

You bet, along with the Shangri-La....
P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye
Phlyer

beg- Hay, 'Old Phart'! Which carriers did you fly off/on? I was on ten? or so
BRBR

In airwings based on Independence, Midway and Forrestal. Have traps on Sara,
Ike, Enterprise, Lex, Kennedy, Nimitz....
P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer

The USNS Bob Hope is not a navy warship . It is U.S. Gov \ Navy ship .
Commanded by a Civ Capt. from M.S.C. With a civ crew from M.S.C. or can
be contracted out to private company to run . I spent 15 yrs with M.S.C.

T Bird wrote:
The USNS Bob Hope is not a navy warship . It is U.S. Gov \ Navy ship .
Commanded by a Civ Capt. from M.S.C. With a civ crew from M.S.C. or can
be contracted out to private company to run . I spent 15 yrs with M.S.C.

Yes I know that USNS Bob Hope is not a warship. My point being that the
ship (and the ship class) was named while Mr. Hope still alive.

ALV

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:45:55 -0500 (EST), (T Bird) wrote:

The USNS Bob Hope is not a navy warship . It is U.S. Gov \ Navy ship .
Commanded by a Civ Capt. from M.S.C. With a civ crew from M.S.C. or can
be contracted out to private company to run . I spent 15 yrs with M.S.C.

So? We all know this....

It's still a US Navy vessel, still completely relevant to the discussion of
Navy ship naming.

--
Andrew Toppan --- --- "I speak only for myself"
"Haze Gray & Underway" - Naval History, DANFS, World Navies Today,
Photo Features, Military FAQs, and more - http://www.hazegray.org/