Victoria Class USS Princess Diana

[JSLTIGER]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

If not Enterprise then Constitution would be my pick for the 1st of the new CV class. Come on admit it everyone wants to see a Constitution class USS Enterprise.

Although I doubt that can/is going to happen.

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.

[TLAM Strike]

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.

[dbf574]

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 .

[JSLTIGER]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Hay that’s an idea USS United States! That name got wasted so it would be nice to use it.

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!

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by dbf574

Personally I'd prefer if submarines were named in the more traditional way, after inhabitents of the sea.

Amen to that too!

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:

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by JSLTIGER

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!

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

BUT there was another USS United States that got built:

The first United States was a sailing frigate that saw action during the War of 1812 and was later captured and commissioned by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, thus becoming the "Confederate States' Ship United States."

[JSLTIGER]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Amen to that too!

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:

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.

[GunnersMate]

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

[Jakobs]

Absolutely not.

[JSLTIGER]

Originally Posted by Jakobs

Absolutely not.

Absolutely not, what?

[jmr]

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.