Queen to name new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
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Looks like the real take-away here is that Canadians are far superior fighters. I think that the recent example of the GBR men's curling match against Canada would have really driven that point home
So you are comparing a game which involves chucking rocks over some ice to fighting in a major war?
Curling is all about strategy and execution. Clearly the GBR team was outclassed in every possible regard.
Even the BBC commented that it was a world class shaming delivered to the UK by the Canadian experts.
I'm sure that you watched the match - it was, after all one of the only hopes you mistakenly thought you had at an Olympic gold
But you're focusing on one sport. I'd love to see the Canadians play England in football, rugby or cricket. You'll be even more "outclassed" than our curling lads were. In fact, we'd probably outclass you in any sport not played on ice.
It wasn't an Olympic gold. It was a Winter Olympic gold. The Winter Olympics is a second rate Olympics held to benefit those countries which are no good at sports that aren't played on ice and snow, like Canada and Norway.
In the last REAL Olympics, in 2012, Great Britain won 29 times as many gold medals as Canada did.
Wait a moment... you're going to name one ship Queen Elizabeth and the other Prince of Wales... scary how? Based on ugliness? If so... you got us there.
And how can we forget the HMS. Antelope!
Cool names.
HMS Zebra
HMS Tuna
HMS Sturgeon
HMS Banshee
HMS Mohawk
HMS Cossack
HMS Amazon
HMS Saracen
List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Zebra
HMS Tuna
HMS Sturgeon
HMS Banshee
HMS Mohawk
HMS Cossack
HMS Amazon
HMS Saracen
List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I was an unholy beating Blackie, inhumane almost.
... And a sport invented by you to boot.
Oh, the shame.. The humiliation... The humanity of it all
More like the HMS Mens Curling Team.
A more appropriate name for how they will be schooled on the seas
What about these?
HMS Love and Friendship
HMS Mosquito
HMS Alice & Francis
HMS Monkey
HMS Nettle
HMS Moth
lmao... the list is endless
And here I thought the Japs were nuts. Even seen this piece of fruitcakery?
Japan Maritime Self Defense Force "Dance" - YouTube
in the UK it's Semenship for love.
Well, in both examples, the Brits took it up the rump and were shown up by Canadians so the comparison is valid
Yeah. In curling. A sport nobody in Britain outside of Scotland cares about.
Are they real names? I quite like them.
One of my favourite names for a ship was the G-class destroyer HMS Glowworm, which took part in the Spanish Civil War and WWII.
On 8 April 1940 Glowworm encountered German destroyers transporting troops to invade Norway in Operation Weserübung. The destroyers attempted to disengage while calling for help from the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. Glowworm was heavily damaged by Admiral Hipper, but still attempted to torpedo the German ship. The two ships collided, which broke the bow off Glowworm, and she sank shortly afterwards.
The other destroyers in the G-class were named Gallant, Garland, Gipsy, Grafton, Grenade, Grenville, Greyhound and Griffin.
There were also the H-class destroyers which were also built in the late 1930s, with heroic names like Hardy, Hasty, Havock, Hereward (an Anglo-Saxon hero who took on the Vikings), Hero, Hostile, Hotspur, Hunter and Hyperion.
I think the Royal Navy has always had a bit of a genius when it comes to naming its ships.