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"Nasty Nick" – USS Nicholas, name given by crew due to the proclivity of the ship's AC units to break down in hot weather. "Nelly" – HMS Nelson – also "Nelsol" – from fleet oilers with names ending in "ol" that the Nelson class looked similar to in silhouette. "Niffy Jane" – HMS Iphigenia "NO Boat" – USS New Orleans
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the " Flagships " were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake , and the " Super Dreadnoughts " were H.M.S. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and India , but few of these resembled the ...
USS United States – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (A US Navy aircraft carrier was to have had that name, but the ship was cancelled.) America, 2001 USS America – nuclear-powered attack submarine (Three former and one current US Navy ships share that name, none of them a submarine.) Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope. HMS Calypso; HMS Dido ...
Ship names comprises all articles relating to the naming of ships, as opposed to specific vessels. Articles on names attached to multiple vessels as well as those covering hull and pennant numbers and the like are appropriate for listing.
In fact, the abbreviated form "HMS" was not used until nearly the end of the following century, with the term "His Majesty's Ship" (formally altered to "Their Majesties' Ship" between 1689 and 1694, when William I and Mary II were co-rulers, and to "Her Majesty's Ship" between 1702 and 1714, and again from 1837 to 1901, when there was a queen ...
This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function. A two-masted schooner Aircraft Carrier
Barracks ship of the Polish Navy at Plymouth 1940–45 Parizhskaya Kommuna: 1911-07-10: Gangut class: Dreadnought Soviet Navy: Ex-Sevastopol, renamed 1921, recommissioned 1925, transferred to Black Sea Fleet 1929, reconstructed 1938–40, regained old name 1943 Patrie: 1903: République class: Pre-dreadnought French Navy: Pennsylvania (BB-38 ...
Ride an operational D-Day ship Cross Sound Ferry Services Inc, regular sailings. Daniel Adamson: 1903: screw steamer: canal tug: Cheshire: Daniel Adamson Preservation Society, regular sailings and charter cruises. Hikitia: 1926: steam twin-screw: floating steam crane: Wellington, New Zealand: Sister ship of scrapped museum ship Rapaki. [3] PS ...