What would other countries name their ships?

[Type-8]

In the show only three countries are shown to have Daedalus class ships (USA, Russia and China) and their names are reflective of their countries. So i was wondering, if other countries had ships what would they call them? Would the Australian one be called the Crocodile Dundee for example?

P.S. yes I'm from Australia and frankly id be surprised if our ship name [U]Wasn't[U] a massive stereotype of some kind.

[maneth]

How about the Waltzing Matilda as an Aussie ship?

[Type-8]

That could work, or maybe the Southern Cross?

[JadedWraith]

That could work, or maybe the Southern Cross?

I prefer those two to Crocodile Dundee No offense to Paul Hogan...but how about some aboriginal mythological hero to keep the myth references?

[Scofield]

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.

[darth_timon]

a British ship would probably wind up being called the Churchill. Or Duke of Wellington. Or Hood, since that's a popular British ship name.

[Type-8]

Another name for the Australian ship could be the Endeavour (the name of the ship that Cook commanded when he discovered Australia). i wonder if countries would be more likely to name their ships after famous people or mythological figures?

[thekillman]

Another name for the Australian ship could be the Endeavour (the name of the ship that Cook commanded when he discovered Australia). i wonder if countries would be more likely to name their ships after famous people or mythological figures?

Famous people i think. The problem with mythology is that a lot of it is shared (IE, classic Greek and Roman Mythology).

EDIT:

i looked up names for Dutch ships and the naming varies wildly.

-names of the royal family
-names of greek mythology
-names of animals
-names of famous people
-names of locations
-names of provinces


in english the dutch prefix is: HNLMS (Her/His Netherland Majesty's Ship)

[Flyboy]

I'd expect one of the following for a Brit ship:

HMS Trafalgar (famous Naval battle)
HMS Valiant
HMS Churchill
HMS Vanguard

Personally, I'd quite like

HMS Excalibur

or

HMS Spitfire

[Starfist]

For a British vessel my suggestions are...

HMS Ark Royal ( Well the 304's do carry F-302's)
HMS Invincible
HMS Illustrious
HMS Royal Oak

[garhkal]

Hows about the Auzzie ship, the Castlemain 4x!

[Starfist]

I think the Australian ship might be named HMAS 'Hammersley' ( I did see a couple of Sea Patrol episodes )

I know the Russians had the 'Korolev' (SP?)
But they might name any replacements after famous Cosmonauts...

The Alexi Leonov
The Yuri Gagarin

[Type-8]

thanks for the ideas guys!

[garhkal]

I think the Australian ship might be named HMAS 'Hammersley' ( I did see a couple of Sea Patrol episodes )

I know the Russians had the 'Korolev' (SP?)
But they might name any replacements after famous Cosmonauts...

The Alexi Leonov
The Yuri Gagarin

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

[Scofield]

Why couldn't we name all the ships "Starhsip Enterprise"? We could say: Here is enterprise 1! "We are waiting for Enterprise 3 to arrive."