I don't think it can...USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides," ex-IX-21) is still in commission. Because of this, no other ship can have the name Constitution.

Exactly, I doubt the USN is going to decom Old Ironsides to insert a joke in to the name of a carrier. Although there are ways around the name already used thing. USS United States Constitution. Hay that’s an idea USS United States! That name got wasted so it would be nice to use it.

Personally I'd prefer if submarines were named in the more traditional way, after inhabitents of the sea. And, by the way, it's Virginia Class SSN not Victoria Class, no such class type in the USN submarine service ;) .

Twice: In 1958, the USS United States CV-58, the original supercarrier, was cancelled after her keel had been laid by Harry Truman. In the mid-1990s, CVN-75 was originally supposed to be named USS United States, but was later renamed USS Harry S. Truman.

The problem with this name lies in the implications if the ship is ever sunk. Headlines around the world would read: UNITED STATES SUNK!

Amen to that too! :up:

ON the subject of the Constitution I just discovered that their was to be a Lexington class Battlecruiser called Constitution but it was cannceld. They could do this since Old Ironsides was called "Old Constitution" at the time. :hmm:

Their was ANOTHER that go wasted a Lexington class Battle Cruiser CC-6.

BUT there was another USS United States that got built:

They had renamed her to free up the name for the battlecruiser, but once the battlecruiser wasn't going to be built, they gave Constitution her original name back.

I kind of like Japanese naming ie -kaze meaning wind and -ushio meaning tide. Poetic

Absolutely not. :down:

Absolutely not, what?

Grrr I didn't even see the date on this until too late. Looks like someone is having fun resurrecting ancient polls just for the fun of it.