HMS Queen Elizabeth

[MBBlat]

mybrainhurts said:

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the name...

HMS Queen Elizabeth....not very fighty, is it?

The previous HMS Queen Elizabeth



Is that one fighty enough for you?

[ClaphamGT3]

In these pc, caring-sharing, everyone's a winner times, Dreadnought, Warspite, Repulse, Invincible etc are probably seen as a bit punchy.

I always find it slightly odd that the RN have never had an HMS Churchill. We could, in fact have a 'conspicuously whooped the Queen's enemies' class;

HMS Churchill
HMS Montgomery
HMS Thatcher
HMS Drake
HMS Wellington
HMS Nelson

[ou sont les biscuits]

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Duncan? Not fighty?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Duncan,_1st_Vis...

Edited by ou sont les biscuits on Wednesday 26th July 10:48

[ou sont les biscuits]

MBBlat said:

mybrainhurts said:

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the name...

HMS Queen Elizabeth....not very fighty, is it?

The previous HMS Queen Elizabeth



Is that one fighty enough for you?

3 of the other ships in the QE class had fighty names too - Valiant, Warspite and Barham. The other one, Malaya, was I think called that because Malaya paid for her. Happy to be corrected though.

As a class, arguably the best fighting ships of WW1.

[FourWheelDrift]

ou sont les biscuits said:

Nanook said:

Is a 'fighty' name important?

Is HMS Glasgow, or Sheffield, or Duncan, a fighty name?

Duncan? Not fighty?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Duncan,_1st_Vis...

And Glasgow and Sheffield on a Saturday night.

[FourWheelDrift]

It could be worse - https://forcesreunited.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/st...

[mikal83]

mybrainhurts said:

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the name...

HMS Queen Elizabeth....not very fighty, is it?

Comments like this from someone whose knowledge of anything military comes from Saving PVT Ryan etc, scares me

[FourWheelDrift]

mikal83 said:

mybrainhurts said:

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the name...

HMS Queen Elizabeth....not very fighty, is it?

Comments like this from someone whose knowledge of anything military comes from Saving PVT Ryan etc, scares me

Maybe we should have called it HMS Mybrainhurts

[MOTORVATOR]

FourWheelDrift said:

Maybe we should have called it MS Mybrainurts

FTFY

[bobmcgod]

FourWheelDrift said:

mikal83 said:

mybrainhurts said:

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the name...

HMS Queen Elizabeth....not very fighty, is it?

Comments like this from someone whose knowledge of anything military comes from Saving PVT Ryan etc, scares me

Maybe we should have called it HMS Mybrainhurts

Carrier McCarrierFace?

[mybrainhurts]

FourWheelDrift said:

mikal83 said:

mybrainhurts said:

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the name...

HMS Queen Elizabeth....not very fighty, is it?

Comments like this from someone whose knowledge of anything military comes from Saving PVT Ryan etc, scares me

Maybe we should have called it HMS Mybrainhurts

Now you're talking....

Blimey....

You chuck in a whimsy about a name, go away for a while and everybody thinks this is A Serious Proposition.

I shall now take refuge in my bunker, the one I call Warrior's Hole....I was going to call it BunkerMcBunkerface, but I knew that wouldn't end well....

[Dog Star]

ClaphamGT3 said:

HMS Thatcher

I'm liking this idea; I'm off to start a petition to have the second vessel renamed after The Sainted Lady Margaret.

[mybrainhurts]

I'm warming to the idea of HMS Queen Elizabeth now....

Imagine a huge sound system, pointed at the enemy fleet....

..MY HUSBAND AND I REQUIRE YOU TO SURRENDER, OR ONE WILL HAVE NO OPTION BUT TO LAUNCH ONE'S TIGER MOTHS AND CORGIs

This could work....

[yellowjack]

ClaphamGT3 said:

In these pc, caring-sharing, everyone's a winner times, Dreadnought, Warspite, Repulse, Invincible etc are probably seen as a bit punchy.

I always find it slightly odd that the RN have never had an HMS Churchill. We could, in fact have a 'conspicuously whooped the Queen's enemies' class;

HMS Churchill - (S-46) decommisioned 1991. Nuclear powered Fleet Submarine.
HMS Montgomery - probably too close to the SS Richard Montgomery, which might take a corner off Kent if it ever decides to explode.
HMS Thatcher
HMS Drake - already taken. HMNB Devonport
HMS Wellington - (U-65) launched 1934, she's still afloat on the Thames as HQS Wellington
HMS Nelson - already taken. A barracks that's part of HMNB Portsmouth

To be fair, if the RN was anything like the USN we'd already have an aircraft carrier called the HMS Margaret Hilda Thatcher. But then it'd probably have an air wing, too...

[mybrainhurts]

Nanook said:

mybrainhurts said:

Now you're talking....

Blimey....

You chuck in a whimsy about a name, go away for a while and everybody thinks this is A Serious Proposition.

I shall now take refuge in my bunker, the one I call Warrior's Hole....I was going to call it BunkerMcBunkerface, but I knew that wouldn't end well....

People obviously misunderstood you.

Whimsy implies humour, you see.

Exactly so. If anyone took me seriously, he's had a sense of humour bypass. Sadly, many of those afflicted dwell here.

You see....

[eccles]

Dog Star said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

HMS Thatcher

I'm liking this idea; I'm off to start a petition to have the second vessel renamed after The Sainted Lady Margaret.

It would be cheaper as well, no need to fit a rudder on it.

[andymadmak]

eccles said:

It would be cheaper as well, no need to fit a rudder on it.

Bravo sir!

[ou sont les biscuits]

andymadmak said:

eccles said:

It would be cheaper as well, no need to fit a rudder on it.

Bravo sir!

Took me a while, but I got there in the end!

[FourWheelDrift]

We had/have 2x HMS Iron Duke after the Duke of Wellington. HMS Iron Lady would also do.

[donutsina911]

HarryW said:

Any idea when she'll be 'home'

Rumour in Pompey today is the 21st August...