Posted on 02/09/2013 4:19:25 PM PST by Smartisan
Of course, just like the US, Britain has named carriers after carriers that sunk. They had Ark Royal. We had a Yorktown, Hornet, Lexington
The U.S.S. Ox Butt.....
The Brits buying and refitting an old US carrier would be like shopping for a new car by going to a salvage yard and rebuilding an old junker. Instead of buying an old, broken down maintenance headache, the Brits want to buy new, and with capabilities designed for their current needs, based on modern technology, and to keep their shipyards in the business of building warships.
Also a HMS Invincible fought at the Falklands 1982, after a previous HMS Invincible was sunk at Jutland in 1916, after it fought at the Falklands 1914, where is sunk the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
And Germany named a couple of later ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
Gah, a 1,000-tonne bow? I wonder what the arrows weigh.
Yes, that is a very graceful line. Sure, it has the underwater “nose” and the flat-top upstairs... But once in the water, she’ll be very pretty... Ok, maybe that’s the Jack talkin’. Hey, it is Saturday night...
Will be both the class and name. Second in class will be called Prince of Wales, probably.
Some voices (though not heard it said for a while) want the name ‘Ark Royal’ to be reprised for the 2nd in class, instead of PoW. PoW himself said a bit ago he wasn’t averse to the idea...
There should have been a HMS QE in the 60’s but the project was cancelled.
Personally, I’m a sucker for the classical names, like HMS Indefatigable (just post WWII).
A CV class names from UK ‘Overseas Territories’ would have been nice too, throwing in names like HMS Gibraltar, Falkland, Akrotiri or Ascension.
Twin screws, no angled flight deck and a ski jump launch. Well, it is a start....
They never re-named one The Bismark.
Maybe when Germany gets back into the big ship business, they may name a carrier the Bismark. Germany may yet reach he day in the sun.
Who cares? Its an aircraft carrier. It would be the target #1 anyway.
Yes that is odd. The last HMS Prince of Wales had a less than stellar career.
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