Japanese ship-naming conventions
 

I'm sure many of you are already know most of this, but I stumbled upon a seemingly-exhaustive Wiki article on Japanese ship-naming conventions. I found it fascinating and thought others would appreciate it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...ng_conventions

Good stuff. :up:

The Japanese language tends to be poetic in nature, and it's not surprising that Japanese warships carried names which were very lyrical. It's certainly difficult to imagine US destroyers being named after various meteorological conditions.

Absolutely. The "USS Ripples on the Water Surface" just seems.... wrong. :rotfl2:

I think some WW2 USCG cutters were name after wind directions. Northwind, Eastwind , Westwind, etc.

They got it right with the hospital ships. They had names like Mercy, Comfort, Hope, Relief, Solace, etc.

Or, USS River Runs Through Forest.

In English, at least, some of them just lack that "intimidation factor".

Yeah! Not like the USS Trout!


Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. :D

JCC

Very nice. It's easy to find all the names, but the "why" sometimes eludes us. Thanks for posting that. :sunny:

Touche'

That's okay. The British 'Insect' class gunboats included HMS Cockchafer.

Does she have a sister ship? HMS Bumchapper?

:Kaleun_Cheers: :har: ROFLMAO :har: :Kaleun_Cheers:

In english our warships would sound like something out of Halo for pete's sake

You list your location as North Carolina. Would I be correct in assuming from your username that you're referring to the Deutsche Marine? (Rammstein fan here, BTW :rock:).

Nope, US navy lol