Thread 63897981

>American WWII Ships: Albacore, Cod, Piranha
>British WWII Ships: Illustrious, Avenger, Emerald
>Italian WWII Ships: Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta, Giovanni delle Bande Nere, Marcantonio Bragadin di Marcantonio Colonna di Vettor Pisani
>Russian WWII Ships: S-2, S-3, S-101
>German WWII Ships: U-2, U-12, U-142
Do weapons benefit from having fancy names or functional names?

>>63897981 (OP)
I have never understood what 'Royal Ark' means (see ww2 carrier with that name). Is that a masonic symbol or something ?

>>63897981 (OP)
dishonest post

>>63898009
also, subs are boats, not ships

>>63897981 (OP)
>Do weapons benefit from having fancy names or functional names?
Functionality is what hull numbers are for. Ship names should always be good ones, so long as they're not overly verbose or the names of people unless said person has legendary heroic status.
Having ship naming conventions that are unique and distinguishable but also not too complicated is good. The US was good (in WWII) and the British did it the best:
>name new ship class after next letter of the alphabet (A, B, C, D...)
>give each vessel a cool name starting with that letter (Revenge, Resolution, Royal Oak, etc.)
Their exceptions were cool too, like when they named the Tribal-class after people and shitholes they conquered.

if you give something a cool name you have to make sure it does something cool

>>63897990
the Ark is the boat build by Moses
so it's the royal boat

>>63897981 (OP)
A good ship naming scheme should have ease of clarity over communications. Problem to me with numeric-based names is that U-23 and U-21 would be easy to mangle over battlefield tensions, where names would be much harder to confuse.

The Italian names were at least those of famous people, so they were probably more familiar than the names of lesser known sailors, even if they had accomplished great feats.

>>63897981 (OP)
>British ships
>Didn't choose HMS Spanker
You had ONE job OP!

>>British WWII Ships:
>Achilles, Arethusa, Athene
FTFY

>>63897990
It's "Ark Royal", not the other way round, and the name goes back like 5 centuries or something
So it complies with Shakespeare-era English, for example:
>Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
>Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
>Which pillage they with merry march bring home
>To the tent-royal of their emperor
Also:
>And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

"Ark" was of course a fancy word in those times for a big and strong ship
Noah's Ark = Noah's (big and strong) Ship

>>63897981 (OP)
>Do weapons benefit from having fancy names or functional names?
"The moral(e) is to the physical as three is to one."
The most important is to have a good name that soldiers like

>>63897981 (OP)
Are you fucking retarded? Plenty of German ships had names, like Bismarck, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, etc.

>>63898361
>Horst Wessel
>Albert Schlageter

>>63898078
HMS Glowworm had a cute name but was actually a badass and pretty hard core.

>>63897981 (OP)
>off topic
did another ruzzian ship blow up? I haven't been up to date on the rape of moscow