bong's ship be like
>HMS Vengeance
>Vanguard
>Revenge
>Invisible
>Monarch
>Conqueror
google HMS + edgy word, there's good change they got it
why can't we give ship name like that ? instead we get some homosexual senator no one even remember
bong's ship be like. >HMS Vengeance. >Vanguard. >Revenge. >Invisible. >Monarch. >Conqueror
Probably because Britain has had only two people worth remembering. The guy that invented falafel and Big Ben.
>The guy that invented lalafel
What about the guy who invented butter chicken?
Name more than 2 Americans worth remembering who:
>arent military figures
>were born in the USA
Amanda Tapping
Naming your ships and bases after military heroes who received valor medals is the correct way to do it. Because then you can tell the cool story over and over.
Dude crawled into a Vietnam hillside tunnel complex and killed twenty NVA with a 1911, two grenades and a knife. Fricking badass.
There's obvious astronauts, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins (who I guess technically are "military figures" by virtue of being test pilots and aviators before being astronauts, but c'mon) and the likes of Katherine Johnson who did the calculations for the Apollo mission. You have Oppenheimer, becomer of sneed and changer of geopolitics from the 20th century onward. If we're including pop culture icons, you've got frickin' Elvis, Walt Disney, Dr Seuss, frickin' Sylvester Stallone, that list is endless. I'd include people like Frederick Douglas, John Brown, and others, but you'd probably include them as "military figures".
It's pretty dumb to say "were born in the USA" as a criteria though, the whole idea behind the United States is to act as a safe haven of liberty, everyone present in the USA today is the descendant of an immigrant, colonial or otherwise (except Natives, I guess, but even they immigrated from frickin' Indochina several millenia ago).
>the whole idea behind the United States is to act as a safe haven of liberty
As well as white people. It's important to state the two. Because that's how the United States ever came to be.
>The whole idea behind the United States is to act as a safe haven of liberty for the worldwide elite
FTFY
Imagine getting clapped by the USS Theodore Seuss Geisel.
Michael Jackson
>Elvis Presley (not including his service)
>Johnny Cash
>Gabe Newell
>Mikey Yackson
>Mark Twain
>Louis Armstrong
>Com Truise
>Mike Tyson
>Ernest Hemingway
>Bob Ross (not including his service)
>Uncle Rogers
>Uncle Ted (K)
>Donald Trump
>John Moses Browning
>Duke Nukem
I could go on.
>Today, USS Duke Nukem launched Tomahawk missiles at Iranian airfields
ngl that would be sick
>DUN-DUN DUN, DUN-DUN DUN
>"Nice miss-iles, nerd."
>DUN-DUN DUN, DUN-DUN DUN
>"Mine don't miss."
>-heavy guitar noises-
knaye west
The guys that invented your country were British.
They ceased to be British the moment they became Americans. This is something smelly foreigns never seem to understand.
The US didn't exist pre-declaration. The founding fathers were British.
This is something smelly mutts don't seem to understand.
Keep seething bongaloid, you aren't getting those back taxes.
>back taxes
Not so much then
It wasn't about taxes
it was about who levied the taxes
US has an (unsuccessful) rebellion about taxation almost immediately after independence for one
two, the founding fathers were most certainly, English and identified as such until their death, and considered their fledgling nation one that English first and foremost
The entire premise of the rebellion was because the colonies weren't being treated as the Englishmen they were with their enshrined rights in the English bill of rights
israelite suppression of history to divide the USA into a melting pot 1/64th load of bullshit is an unironic globohomosexual attack on our culture that so loves liberty
The bonggers can't catch a break.
we had USS Liberty but fricking israelites sink her
no they didn't, they attacked her. she returned to port under her own power.
HMS spear chucker
HMS Aryan killer
HMS CHina
HMS dublin
HMS California
>Her Majesty's Ship Lord wieneringhamshire
HIS Majesty. Not Her majesty.
>USS Tel Aviv
>USS Shepherd's Bane
>USS Nordstream
>USS Haliburton
It'd probably be more humiliating to be killed by the Harvey Milk or Gabby Giffords tbqh.
USS Rustbucket was not available, I guess?
HMS Spotted Dick
HMS Bangers and Mash
HMS Figgy Pudding
HMS Gay Viking is my favourite.
HMS Bong
HMS Fish N Chips
HMS Pious Inquisitor
HMS Shadow of Intent
HMS Long Night of Solace
HMS Terminus Est
HMS Forward unto Dawn
HMS In Amber Clad
HMS Two for flinching
UNSC names>> Covenant names
How could you forget the best one?
>HMS Say My Name
Fish Don't Vote.
HMS Jorge shultzheimerbergstein
Doesn't america have a ship called the fricking USS hector Ortiz
having a call of duty gamer tag on your ship wont save it from an exocet or any similar weapons systems anon
Missiles aren't a silver bullet unless your opponent is sailing dysfunctional garbage fires where zero out of three missile defense systems work (Moskva). The race between aerial attack and air defense has been ongoing at sea since 1914
Sorry that you're to gay to give your ships cool names.
The British Empire went around spreading civilization, the American Empire goes around spreading homosexuality.
The names are perfectly appropriate.
7/10 bait
Go name your ship after a fricking tax form homosexual.
the US has way too many ships to follow a naming convention like that. bong ships get away with it because there are typically less than 10 in a class, and every class starts with the same letter, for instance HMS Trafalgar, HMS Trenchant, HMS Tireless. Those are referred to as T-boats, because of how they're named. If you applied this to the 90-something Arleigh Burkes, it wouldn't work.
They've always had cool names even at the globe spanning height of the RN.
In fiction maybe. In real life, they suffered from the same problem the US Navy does, where they run out of decent names and just toss shit on there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_names_of_the_Royal_Navy_(A)
No in real life. Look up any British ship you like and they ALL have a cool name.
You fricking monkey the royal navy has 1/10th the manning of the current USN. They have the luxury of doing "cool" names because they have no real navy. Even then, there are a lot of them named after battles or flag officers, just like the US. And then there's shit named after frickoff rivers in bumfrick nowhere
Hey homosexual do British Empire mean anything to you? Naming your ship something cool is a tradition the predates the navy even.
>Hey homosexual do British Empire mean anything to you?
no, I live in the 21st century
And have never picked up a history book? Globe spanning empire. Countless ships. Not all named after a fax machine.
>history book
yeah, that's my point
Your point is moronic.
I'm sure scared of HMS Unicorn and HMS Flower
Unicorn came too late in the war to do anything, but the Flower-class boats scared the shit out of the U-Boat crews. Fast enough to keep up and enough ammunition and fuel to outlast the subs batteries.
>the Flower-class boats scared the shit out of the U-Boat crews
I'm not saying they were ineffective ships, I'm saying they had a lame name.
i'd go for HMS Pansy tbh
the thing about the Royal Navy is that they've been around for so long that they've used every name, from badass (indefatigable) to lame (carcass)
quantity has a quality all its own
I mean there was the whole flower class. I also remember some quote about how they were running out of names for all the liberty ships and escort carriers that were being built.
HMS Unicorn is scary, especially if you are a collage student
Unicorns are a bad omen
Unicorns can only be shackled by a rightful anointed king. Its from the Heraldic supporters of the royal coat of arms, you'll note it has a crown and a chain round its neck.
the royal navy hasn't been relevant since ships were made out of wood.
They taught you how to make and operate an aircraft carrier.
>US navy invented Carrier and Submarine warfare (Nimitz)
>UK navy invented, idk, "having more guns" or smth
wow
much impress
very apex
Armatard these threads have to stop. It's pathetic at this point.
If it is a Russian it's even more hilarious, British officers literally trained the first Russian Navy for the Tsar.
>praising the USN means I'm armatard
You've lost the plot, my friend.
UK invented modern battleship
>wow
>much impress
>very apex
go back to your 132th ukrainian war threads
>war tourist tries to assert authority
adorable!
The Americans learned proper carrier air control from the British in the first place you dumb fricking Black person
Most of these ships are WW1-WW2 era ships, I'd say the British Empire was fairly meaningful. I don't know how you're seething so hard. Also quite funny that you need to tell everyone how great the USN is and how insignificant the Royal Navy is when the USN have a destroyer called the Winston S. Churchill in your fleet
Yes, and I quake in my boots when I hear a ship named after a braindead shooting victim
Churchill was American
They got to Cr- before they were stopped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-class_destroyer_(1943)
They were not done expanding, not by a long shot.
Actually it's really not difficult, you just need something in the region of 2,000 names. I could come up with 2,000 cool names out of the dictionary.
And it's awesome when her descendents redeem the name.
If you decommission a name everytime it gets sunk because you're too humiliated by the event, you will fast run out of good names.
If you don't use a name because you're afraid it gets sunk... then my dear, you were defeated before you even tried.
The Unicorn is a respected heraldic animal.
>The Unicorn is a respected heraldic animal.
For homos. Right up there with HMS Rainbow.
Yeah no. Those A names are pretty good.
if you're 14 and just read percy jackson maybe
The US could follow the same naming convention. The Royal Navy just reuses the good names but there were a lot of shit ones too, American ships however have exclusively shit names.
hms rapist
it's more humiliating when your ship call "invincible" is sunk
oh no no bongsisters...
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_names_of_the_Royal_Navy_(A)
looked it up and impregnable I-IV were training ships that overlapped at Devonport
Not just sunk, instantly vaporized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-class_patrol_boat#Ships
the british are right in this case
naming ships after people is stupid
but as i understand they started the trend of naming our tanks after generals which was also stupid
Yeah you're going to have some seasoned warships in the future
>be swede
>Name ship after dynasty vasa
>sinks in virgin voyage
>dynasty dies with that king
hm
>name your ship vasa
>centuries later normies will remember your name only cause of the dietarian biscuits
Is vasa similar to water in English
I feel like there might be a etymological link there
vann
vand
vatten
wasser
water
yes they have all the same etymology
No vasa comes from vase which means bundle of sticks
You're a bundle of sticks if you know what I mean
No, it comes from the norse word for a bundle of sticks (which is pretty similar to Latin fasces but no one knows if they have the same origin)
also voda in slavic languages: vodka is the diminutive meaning "little water."
it's not a biscuit it's just hard bread
and why the frick do the german put fricking yoghurt on it, you put the same stuff as regular bread on it
Just look up the names of the British Ironclads and pre dreadnaughts as well as dreadnaughts and fast battleships/battlecruisers on Wikipedia; the French too.
>why can't we give ship name like that ? instead we get some homosexual senator no one even remember
Who is this "we", you burgerc**t?
USS Goyjewer is a great name. That's what I think.
>Gave cool Mythology names to Repair Ships of all things
I guess the system of using States and Cities was too easy of a naming system too pass up, but the USN can name cool things when they want.
Bongs gave them to frigates since the 18th century
Pretty based really
And most are good names too
I think names like that end up turning up in a shit ton of scifi, you have Enterprise and Prometheus after all.
It should be more common in the USN imo, gives a sense of true historical weight to the institution, and since it's almost directly descended from the bongs I think it should reflect that.
They should continue naming after major cities though, I think that's also cool.
>Hear ye hear ye, by decree of his majesty's government, the Storm Shadow shall be deployed on the HMS Invincible
vs
>Congress has voted in resolution 3855/4 that the BXM-12 will be deployed on the USS John Smith
>his majesty
it just sounds off
I miss her too
>Pridham-Wippell
I think that list is arranged in convoy column order
It sure is. It's the list of ships to be used, for the departure of troops currently stuck in greece, after Germany successfully invaded and defeated greece.
One of the Royal Navy's finest defeats.
>It takes the Navy only three years to build a ship, but it takes three centuries to build a tradition
It's because the lower class favour Monty Pythonesque jokes, while the nobs like classical names
America's first experimental starfighter, clearly
I must say, there really wasn't all that much they could do, in that sort of situation. Although, the British could have sent in more aircraft for support; Especially when Germany was ONLY using aircraft over the mediterranean. In the end, it could have been much worse; the Italians could have joined in the ensuing carnage that was the retreat. But, fortunately, the Italians were worthless as both an adversary and as an ally.
tribal class also got cool name like zulu, mohawk, sikh, gurkha, etc
you get the idea
>Decoy
imagine being one of the hundreds of sailors who died when their ship was sunk by a boat named "wahoo"
Intimidation. The best battles are the ones you don't have to fight. It also goes the other way as well: making the enemy overextend to destroy HMS Indestructible and getting right into the trap.
>be named "USS Thresher"
>tear yourself apart
Well, that kinda tracks.
Sometimes it’s better not to tempt fate. The loss of a ship named “Invincible” is a lot more painful than the loss of a ship named “John McBurger.”
A bored magic genie has granted you a battleship with which you can sail the seven Seas, /k/. But, there is one condition: its name. The more badass the name, the more powerful your ship.
So, what will it be?
Bongs: HMS Vengeance
Also Bongs: pic related
>USS Barack Obama
Describe this ship to me
Piece of total shit but everyone still goes on about how great it is because first black guy to do a thing.
He wasn't that bad actually outside of foreign policy anon
He was a well meaning weakling but let's not go there, tis a /misc/ place
Everyone goes on and on about how much better is is than the USS George W Bush because of how it has less drones.
The vessel's air complement is comprised specifically and only of drones
> USS Barack Obama
Uhhh let me be clear, sailors will have gay sex aboard me
Black Ops 2 said it would be a futuristic aircraft carrier in service by 2025
We had a lot of ships named after predatory fish and battles. The USS Massachusetts was also called "Big Mamie" which is amusing to me at least.
Mutt ships be like
>USS Some Dude Who Liked To Eat Dick
>No mention of Warspite
Anyways its because they/had have everything, for every edgy name there's a jovial one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pansy
Some yank ships have cool names. They named an aircraft carrier after Captain Kirk's spaceship.
Err.. got some bad news for ya lad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise_(1705)
Piccard chads can't stop winning
I have a few names for the US Navy's next ships:
USS Ronald McDonalds
USS Dr Pepper
USS Sasha Cohen
USS Ramon Sanchez
USS Rachel Goldstein
USS Michael Jordan III
Didnt the coca cola corporation own a shit load of surplus warships a while back? They missed a trick there, not renaming them after all the drink brands.
It was Pepsi, and IIRC they were only interested in trading soft drinks for out of date Soviet naval trash in order to get hold of the scrap value of those ships.
Generally British naming conventions (for operations as well as ships) are supposed to be fairly neutral sounding. So they go for random adjectives and nouns. Alternatively they are meant to invoke part of history/culture (invincible, taranis), or showcase the objective of the ship (victorious, vengeance, vigilant & victory)
In WW2 they had a WRAC who'd slowly go down a dictionary to supply them with innocuous codenames. This sometimes had unfortunate results when the name hinted too much at the nature of the operation.
Currently the British seem to like Saxon operation names when only they are involved, or native ones if fighting with local allies
USS Walmart
USS Caitlyn Jenner
USS Jazz Bono
USS Kim Kardashian
USS Tupac Shakur
Simple solution is
>Destroyers = county names (Clark, Harris, etc)
>Cruisers = Cities
>LHA/LHD = States
>Carriers = Important US battles (Yorktown, Bunker Hill, Gettysburg Shiloh)
>Subs = names of predatory sea-life (Dolphin, Pike, Great White, Hammer Head, Yellowfin, Bluefin, perch etc)
>Smol botes and auxiliaries = notable Americans/politicians
USS George Floyd
Simple, Americans are born without souls.
Sounds kinda gay, kinda like talking up our munitions such as switchblade or javelin or whathaveyou (actually those are pretty tame). I'd rather be killed by HMS BetterThanSupermanWonderWomanAndBatmanCombined than the USS limp dick.
Unlike in bongistan, the leader of America is literally the commander in chief. US presidents are warrior-kings..
You're aware that in the UK the monarch is still the commander in chief, aren't you? Or are you the sort of American who is fairly sure he's heard rumours about a world that exists outside of his home county but isn't entirely sure if they're credible or not?
>You're aware that in the UK the monarch is still the commander in chief, aren't you?
lolno
>Charles III declares war on the EU
>suddenly suffers a food poisoning accident
Do ... do you think the President is leading combat from the front lines like he's trying to LARP as Patton or something?
The POTUS can't declare war either. Only the Congress can.
>US presidents are warrior-kings
They are literally neither of those things.
The 2nd Escort Group is the most successful anti-submarine unit of the war, sinking 23 U-boats in 2 years. It was made up of six Black Swan class sloops with occasional reinforcements:
>HMS Starling
>HMS Cygnet
>HMS Kite
>HMS Wild Goose
>HMS Woodpecker (sunk)
>HMS Wren
early 20th century was pure kino
And the only thing we got was Jutland (and the travesty of scuttling the entire German fleet after the war), some French sitting in a port and getting fricked up, and before that some shit around the cape of South America and an eastern African river sit-in.
I really like these machines, but despite "Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!" the most destruction was from aircraft, mines, and torpedoes. Really missed out on some naval kino.
Bismarck vs Hood and Prince of Wales
Bismarck vs KGV and Rodney
Scharnhorst vs Duke of York
Surigao straight
Guadalcanal
Samar
Cape Matapan
Pretty sure there were a few more battles where big guns were fired
Don't forget the real vessels:
HMS gay bruiser
HMS gay fencer
Still think HMS Ambush is the sickest name ever for a sub.
HMS Vengeance for an SSBN
The one drawback to British subs is that they are only allowed to surface during equally evil-looking weather.
>"Sir, we must surface to assist those refugees struggling to land in France."
>"We can't, Number One, it's a sunny day topside."
Or in Scotland.
I'd actually like to go sub-spotting on the Clyde, but I'll never have the time and the bong police would definitely move me on in a matter of days.
Can't wait to see Harvey Milk on exercise with HMS Gay Viking.