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In Norway only the Skjold-class corvettes have nice names. P960 – KNM «Skjold» - Shield P 961 – KNM «Storm» - Self explanatory P 962 – KNM «Skudd» - Shot P 963 – KNM «Steil» - Untranslatable, means steep impassable terrain, but then also implacable, unbendable, unwavering P 964 – KNM «Glimt» - Flash P 965 – KNM «Gnist» - Spark Everything else is boring place names, like islands for the mine hunters, rivers for the minesweepers, or explorers for the frigates. Oh no, Thor Heyerdahl is coming to spout wild theories at you in an atrocious accent! The subs are named for tiny villages or islands beginning with U, but they ran out it seems, so the 6th boat in the Ula class is named "Uredd" (Unafraid) instead.  Occasionally we get some cool norse gods, I hope we're due for some again soon. (Lol, we won't build new warships for decades).
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It was always fun looking over the names of Norwegian ships in Harpoon because they looked like random collections of letters: Lok, Dulf, Skurg, Bjek, Trov, Gval, Hfin...
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Not much related sea story, but Navy related, I used to love pulling into Norway, beautiful country, everyone's just insanely friendly, absolutely wonderful place, and first on my list to return to as a civilian. Relevantly, everyone there in a big city under like 40 speaks absolutely perfect English, I had less trouble understanding most Norwegians than I did any Scot. Anyways, I'm sitting in a bus in Haakonsvern, waiting to head into Bergen on liberty, the windows are down and my COB is sitting directly in front of me, there's two armed Norwegian guards sitting around chatting right outside the bus, they're chatting in Norwegian, because, uh, of course they are. I overhear the COB mutter "speak loving English" just softly enough for the guards not to hear him. And that right there tells you all you need to know about that fuckin' dude.
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Mar 29, 2023 10:56
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Elviscat posted:
Counterpoint: HMS Daffodil.
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Mar 29, 2023 11:39
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We hunted the Norwegian sub Bruinvis during an exercise in Scotland once. They told us it translates to Bear Fish which sounds kind of metal. I think I remember it being a big pain in the rear end to track as all things on the P-3 are.
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Mar 29, 2023 11:41
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Elviscat posted:I overhear the COB mutter "speak loving English" just softly enough for the guards not to hear him. I sat next to a salty as gently caress USN chief on the bus from Haakonsvern once who spent the entire ride into town talking poo poo about "the loving Germans promoting a 23 year old girl to CPO"
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Mar 29, 2023 12:50
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Wonder Free posted:We hunted the Norwegian sub Bruinvis during an exercise in Scotland once. They told us it translates to Bear Fish which sounds kind of metal. I think I remember it being a big pain in the rear end to track as all things on the P-3 are. Bruinvis is a Dutch boat, and although bruin is bear (literally just 'brown') and vis is fish, the english name would be porpoise like a whoole lot of other subs trough history.
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Mar 29, 2023 13:12
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I like the HMS Agamemnon . Try to get us yanks to say that one three times fast! Or HMS Indefatigable.
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Mar 29, 2023 16:27
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We waste all our good names on these smol guys.
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My PEP tour was onboard a German fast boat, Gepard class which are all named after small carnivorous mammals. Gepard (Cheetah) Puma Hermelin (Ermine) Nerz (Mink) Zobel (Sable) Frettchen (Ferret) Dachs (Badger) Ozelot (Ocelot) Wiesel (Weasel) Hyäne (Hyena) They’re all decommissioned as of 2016. 
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Mar 29, 2023 18:40
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Crab Dad posted:We waste all our good names on these smol guys. gently caress yeah. My first ship was the Guardian (MCM-5).
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Crab Dad posted:We waste all our good names on these smol guys. 
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Mar 29, 2023 18:47
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The Cyclone-class got some good ones, too.
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Don’t forget HMS Gay Viking. Sadly, to quote Rickover, “fishes don’t vote”.
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FrozenVent posted:Don’t forget HMS Gay Viking. The Gay class was armed merchant marines no?
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Blockade runners yeah.
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FrozenVent posted:Blockade runners yeah. Pretty metal actually.
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Mar 30, 2023 00:45
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I like the thematic naming. Like the OHIO class: State State State State U.S. Senator (deceased) State State State State State State State State State State State State State
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Cerekk posted:I like the thematic naming. Like the OHIO class: How about Fish President State gently caress it we're out of money.
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The State he was from was open as a name too, the boat itself is half heartedly WA and Seattle themed. Also universally known as "the HMJ" or "Her Majesty's joke" because it's a piece of poo poo and tied to the pier 24/7. USS Washington, a VA class, has a badass boat logo though. 
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Elviscat posted:The State he was from was open as a name too, the boat itself is half heartedly WA and Seattle themed. That is a badass logo. I super enjoy the form line art.
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And VIRGINIA is named for 28 states, 4 WW2 submarines, a former SECNAV, a former senator, and Rickover, and LOS ANGELES was 61 cities and Rickover, and STURGEON was 34 fish and 3 politicians. gently caress, stick with a theme.
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Mar 30, 2023 01:52
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Stultus Maximus posted:How about Also hull number shenanigans: SSN-773 SSN-21 BECAUSE IT'S THE SHIP CLASS OF THE 21ST CENTURY! SSN-22 uh, the ship of the 22nd century? SSN-23??? SSN-774 The actual ship class of the 21st century, instead of a fat short choad of a slightly improved 688.
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I think if you're going to name a ship after a person, it should be a person who served on that type of ship. Jimmy Carter gets a submarine, George HW Bush gets an aircraft carrier, that all makes sense. No naval service, no ship named after you, you can get your name on a barracks or a swimming pool or something. e: and the assorted John McCains just get one of everything.
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And soon we'll have the Columbia-class, the lead boat named after a city where the votes in presidential elections don't count.
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USS Columbia, which is distinct from the other, still in service USS Columbia, both SSxNs. Are they going to rename the old Columbia to the city of, or does anyone know the plan there?
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Elviscat posted:USS Columbia, which is distinct from the other, still in service USS Columbia, both SSxNs. Are they going to rename the old Columbia to the city of, or does anyone know the plan there? It'll technically be USS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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Elviscat posted:USS Columbia, which is distinct from the other, still in service USS Columbia, both SSxNs. Are they going to rename the old Columbia to the city of, or does anyone know the plan there? The boomer will have the full name USS District of Columbia. Not awkward at all.
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lol we're gonna have a boomer named for the city named after the female personification of the United States (see also: Britannia) who also has a submarine named for a different city named after her
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The boomer will have the full name USS District of Columbia. Not awkward at all. They'll just call it the Deecee, but it will rapidly degenerate into the USS DEEZ NUTZ.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The boomer will have the full name USS District of Columbia. Not awkward at all. The fast attack sub force and the boomer sub force barely acknowledge that each other exist so they will just call them both COLUMBIA in casual conversation and it will rarely have the opportunity to be ambiguous. Much like HENRY M. JACKSON is just "Jackson" and there's never a problem with confusion for the actual USS JACKSON.
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McNally posted:lol we're gonna have a boomer named for the city named after the female personification of the United States (see also: Britannia) who also has a submarine named for a different city named after her Technically the city is named Washington, so they should just name it USS WASHINGTON to avoid this. Ah, gently caress.
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Cerekk posted:The fast attack sub force and the boomer sub force barely acknowledge that each other exist so they will just call them both COLUMBIA in casual conversation and it will rarely have the opportunity to be ambiguous. Conversely I almost never heard of the Wayne E. Meyer referred to as just "Meyer" around the strike group, but maybe that's because it's fun to say "Waney Meyer" a lot. IDK how it is on board the actual ship. Cerekk posted:Technically the city is named Washington, so they should just name it USS WASHINGTON to avoid this. I'm beginning to suspect that we, as a country, might just suck at coming up with original names for things.
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Man I thought you guys were discussing chief test results with all this chatter.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I'm beginning to suspect that we, as a country, might just suck at coming up with original names for things. I originally hoped they'd retcon SSBN-826 to be named for the Columbia river and we'd have a whole class of subs named after rivers, but then they pushed out the retirement date of actual USS Columbia and also you rapidly run out of rivers that don't share names with states. But the USS SNAKE and USS ATCHAFALAYA would have been cool.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Conversely I almost never heard of the Wayne E. Meyer referred to as just "Meyer" around the strike group, but maybe that's because it's fun to say "Waney Meyer" a lot. IDK how it is on board the actual ship. I mean, we as an American population come up with the best original names, they are just relegated to Scifi. But scifi requires thought whereas politics....
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Crab Dad posted:Man I thought you guys were discussing chief test results with all this chatter. Congratulations on making ITC
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M_Gargantua posted:I mean, we as an American population come up with the best original names, they are just relegated to Scifi. But scifi requires thought whereas politics.... Anyone know the naming committee and can slip in a recommendation for USS FORWARD UNTO DAWN...
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Arrinien posted:Anyone know the naming committee and can slip in a recommendation for USS FORWARD UNTO DAWN... The "committee" is just the SECNAV and whatever random subordinate he tasks with giving him ideas to use, which is why random off-theme names keep popping up and also why naming ships for politicians is a thing.
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https://twitter.com/TheDreadShips/status/1641182160399880193?s=20 Looks at cabinet with all the coffee cups and the 3 I use during the week: Yeah, I think I should get this one
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