Funniest/Coolest ship names?

[Tomo]

Small advice from Japanese gamer.
Shokaku means flying crane
Zuikaku means super lucky(happy) crane
"Sho(Shou)" is same pronunciation as"laugh" but in this situation, this is "fly".
Pronunciation is same but Kanji letter is different.
You know that all Kanji letters have its own meaning.

Crane is symbol of super good fortune in Japan.
There is Proverb in Japan
"Crane is 1000 years, Turtle is 10000 years"
It means they live very long years. I don't know if it's true[&:]

So, Shokaku & Zuikaku could live longer than other Japanese CVs[:)]

website about Zuikaku
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~un3k-mn/ren-zuikaku.htm
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~un3k-mn/0815-4zuikaku.htm
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~un3k-mn/081 ... aku200.htm
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~un3k-mn/081 ... aku300.htm



Kaga is old name of Japaese state.
http://www.geocities.jp/y_80000001292585/3.html
http://www2.nsknet.or.jp/~te_rinok/teik ... v_kaga.htm
http://hush.gooside.com/name/k/Ka/Kaga/Kaga.html

Oops! this website has lotsof nice photos!
http://www.geocities.jp/y_80000001292585/Imperial_photo

Hiryu means flying dragon. I like her name.

[Feinder]

The ammo ship in PH on 12-07-41 is called the "Pyro".

I'm thinking...

He11 no!

-F-

[RUPD3658]

Must have gotten bad info from a History Channel Documentery. Thanks for setting it straight. I agree that Flying Dragon is a much cooler name.

[tsimmonds]

You can't make up names like these:

Kalamazoo, Passaconaway, Quinsigamond, Shakamaxon, Miantonomoh, Monadnock, Agamenticus, Tonawanda, Patapsco, Weehawken, Wachapreague, Caloosahatchee, Hassayampa, Androscoggin, Narraguagas, Ochlockonee, Chattahoochee

....barely scratching the surface. I think these are all named for US rivers.....

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

You can't make up names like these:

Kalamazoo, Passaconaway, Quinsigamond, Shakamaxon, Miantonomoh, Monadnock, Agamenticus, Tonawanda, Patapsco, Weehawken, Wachapreague, Caloosahatchee, Hassayampa, Androscoggin, Narraguagas, Ochlockonee, Chattahoochee

....barely scratching the surface. I think these are all named for US rivers.....

Don't know about the others but Weehawken is a city in New Jersey. Maybe an old Indian name.

[Mike Wood]

Hello...

Used to swimming at Lake Quinsigamond, when a child.

Think It Means 'Cool Water' in Narragansett...

Michael Wood

ORIGINAL: irrelevant
...Quinsigamond...

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

ORIGINAL: freeboy

"As a huge Star Trek fan I love any ship named 'Enterprise' "

The origonal show also had several other cv names, the Lexington was one if not mistaken. And some others, but my memory fails me....

OK, here comes my admission of trekkie geekness. Lexington, Exeter, Kongo, Constellation, Constitution, Intrepid, Potempkin...darn, what was the ship which the Enterprise's experimental computer nearly destroyed in that one episode?[&:][;)]

Uh oh . . . geekcheck . . . I think it was the Hood.

[vonmoltke]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

You can't make up names like these:

Kalamazoo, Passaconaway, Quinsigamond, Shakamaxon, Miantonomoh, Monadnock, Agamenticus, Tonawanda, Patapsco, Weehawken, Wachapreague, Caloosahatchee, Hassayampa, Androscoggin, Narraguagas, Ochlockonee, Chattahoochee

....barely scratching the surface. I think these are all named for US rivers.....

Chattahoochee is definitely a river.

[freeboy]

I was thinking that exact eposode, Enterprise attacks four similar ships, thought the one hit hardest was Lexington, too bad these old shows are not archived online.. maybe I can find a script .

[Mr.Frag]

Always loved the Battleaxe ... leave it to the Brits to name ships after mother'in'laws! [:D]

[Williamb]

You stole that from red storm rising [:-]

they supposedly had helos on board that were related to the name of the ship. The battleaxes helo was called "Hatchet"

OF course like shipname "Broadsword" myself.

Guess you could have a Scottish Freighter called claymore. Would be a "Sheep Carrier" with cargo bound for Australia.

[KevH]

Star Trek: The Next Generation also used the name Akagi and Yamato. Yamato has destroyed by a computer virus...

Vanguard is my choice for best name. Pity her constuction was delayed (for various reasons), but she was available anyway in 1946, it would be nice to see her in a scenario that extended into 1946.

[Tiornu]

No one matched the Japanese in their ability to give evocative names. Those destroyers are all cool:
Haziness Diffusing Moonlight
Wind of an Arrow Flight
White Clouds on a Mountain Peak
Mist of Flowers
The Germans should have taken a lesson. Z.27, sheesh...!
The RN has had five Black Princes.
The USN had destroyers named Craven and Coward. Is that like a Boy Named Sue?

[mdiehl]

Have to like the submarine USS Harder.

[Williamb]

doesnt Yamato mean something like "Blosiming Chrysanthemums(sp)"?

[Tomo]

Yamato means old name of Japanese state(south of Kyoto area, south east of Osaka).
Believed as one of origin place of Japanese people.
Yamato is almost same meaning as Japan.

Just like a Yamato is Japan, Japan is Yamato.
"Yamato Damashii" means Japanese soul(like a Samurai spirits though little bit different feelings).
"Show the Yamato Damashii--Yamato Damashii wo misero" this word is used very often when Japanese men fight against foreign enemy(not only war but also sports, such as a olympic[:)]).

[Williamb]

Domo Aragato Tomo.

Hope my japanese isnt too bad.

I think I misunderstood or confused the Yamato with another Japanese Ship.

Im sure many other posters here might ask you what other Japanese ship names mean.

Of course we could so the same for oversea posters.

[bradfordkay]

Always loved the Battleaxe ... leave it to the Brits to name ships after mother'in'laws!

Didn't Churchill have that one named for Lady Astor (sp)?



My favorite all time ship name is not in WitP, as it was a French ship of the Revolutionary era: "Sans Culottes". I can translate if necessary, but I'll let your imagination go to work.

[Ron Saueracker]

British and French names during 1700-1800s were phenomenal. My all-time favourites..."Royal Oak" (as the 74gun 3rd rate) and Jellicoe's Marlborough class flagship "Iron Duke" (no offence to Wellington but it is a great name for a dreadnought BB).

Sans Pareil is also a fabulous name.

Worst. Naming warships for flowers...HMS Pink just sucks. Ask Steve Buschemi.[;)]

[Platoonist]

Yeah...but everybody fights over who gets to be on the HMS Black.....well Black Prince anyway. [:D]