What would other countries name their ships?

[garhkal]

The person. Well to me at least.

[Icedragon]

EDIT: Posted the same thing 2 years ago. Forgot about it.

[McAvoy]

The person. Well to me at least.

You could but at this point both names are more closely tied with the Nazi ships than the founding fathers of German military and government after their Unification.

[thekillman]

You could but at this point both names are more closely tied with the Nazi ships than the founding fathers of German military and government after their Unification.

Agreed. I don't really think anyone would want to serve on a ship called the Bismarck. Maybe in another half-century perhaps.

[sueKay]

In one of my fics I gave Canada two ships named Iroquois and Huron

For UK ships, I think (and would hope) that the names would reflect the heritage of each individual country within the Union.

But for Scottish ship names, I think naming them after famous literary figures would be good, so maybe The Walter Scott or The Robert Burns or naming them after Scottish Islands - Skye, Arran, Mull, Bute etc

[garhkal]

IBut for Scottish ship names, I think naming them after famous literary figures would be good, so maybe The Walter Scott or The Robert Burns or naming them after Scottish Islands - Skye, Arran, Mull, Bute etc

How's about William Wallace!

[Queen Guinevere]

Na.. they would go with the Sputnik and the Mir!

Na... Sputnik and Mir are names for satellites, not ships.

I know I would call a Russian ship "Gordost' Dzhedaja". That's Russian. That's very patriotic. It means "Jedi's Pride"....

[garhkal]

Smirnoff!!

[Queen Guinevere]

Smirnoff!!

unfortunately, it will not take you long... But you could get the hell of the trip!

Seems stupid but the Neil Robertson ship could work. (Neil is an australian snooker player, very good one) I thought that this is a good name because it exists, well, existed the O'Neill ship, so i can't be the Neil ship.

Neil Robertson would work for me. But is we're talking the most famous Australian person here - we should name the ship Kangaroo!

[garhkal]

If we are going with famous Aussie people..
Croc Dundee
Kylie Minogue
AC/DC (they are from Australia)
The Hugh Jackman (or heath ledger!)

[Super Hive]

I've been thinking: what would the French name their ships? I've looked through some references to French icons, such as mythology, famous scientists and the like, but none of them really stood out to me as a cool name. I don't really buy into the idea that nations would necessarily name their space ships after their sea vessels, but if they're cool enough they might work.