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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 ...
Pun boat names inspired by summer, sand, and sea are popular picks, as well as inside jokes like a play on your name or a poke at a defining life event ("She Got the House" or "401K").
The name unveiling traditionally takes place at a boat christening, which involves striking your vessel—a not-prone-to-damage metal fixture, preferably—with a bottle of pre-scored Champagne.
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 ...
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A catboat (alternate spelling: cat boat) is a sailboat with a single sail on a single mast set well forward in the bow of a very beamy and (usually) shallow draft hull. Typically they are gaff rigged, though Bermuda rig is also used. Most are fitted with a centreboard, although some have a keel. [1]
Atropia: A fictional pro-Western dictatorship used for US and NATO exercises; exercise maps depict the country's borders as loosely corresponding to those of Azerbaijan. [5] [6] Averna: A fictional oil-rich principality on the Adriatic Sea in the novel, Sweet Danger (1933) by Margery Allingham. Axphain: Neighbor of Graustark.
In the September 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue 209), Lester W. Smith found Campaign Cartographer almost too good, and the 334-page manual almost too much, saying "For those who like to invest multiple hours into creating detailed maps for their campaigns, and who have the hardware to take advantage of the program, the Campaign Cartographer software allows them to create, store, modify, and ...