New names for support ships announced

[Infanteer]

Royal Canadian Navy meet the pips and crown committee.  Seems they finished up with the Army and have turned their attentions to the senior service!

 

[The Bread Guy]

Royal Canadian Navy meet the pips and crown committee.  Seems they finished up with the Army and have turned their attentions to the senior service!

Does that mean there's some outsiders pushing for names the RCN don't like/want here, too?  >

 

[FSTO]

Well I am glad they have got off naming all our ships after cities.
My suggestions for Amphibs (if we ever got one)
Scheldt Estuary
Juno Beach (or just Juno)
Sicily (or Husky)
Louisburg

AOR
PROVIDER II

Destroyers
SIOUX
BLACKFOOT
LAKOTA
CREE
CHIPPEWA
etc

 

[NavyShooter]

Well, I do have some faith that since ISI is not involved, that we may actually see steel cut for these ships (soon) and that they'll probably hit the water within my lifetime.

NS

 

[Michael OLeary]

How about the HMCS Isaac Brock and the HMCS Tecumseh?  >

 

[cupper]

HMCS Shannon ;D

 

[Monsoon]

Well I am glad they have got off naming all our ships after cities.

Not exactly:

- http://goo.gl/maps/5V1l1
- http://goo.gl/maps/OM0On

At best they can be credited for having subverted the custom by doubling the names of towns and War of 1812 battles.

 

[OldSolduer]

Well I am going to form my own regiment.

The Elm Creek Rangers. I will be the CO

Our Armories will be the local hotel. The mess, parade square and kitchen are all in one facility.

Take that, you ship namers..... ;D

 

[MilEME09]

How about the HMCS Isaac Brock and the HMCS Tecumseh?  >

HMCS Tecumseh already exists as a stone frigate in calgary

 

[The_Dictat]

I for one am happy with HMCS Chateauguay, my home town on the river of the same name that named the battle.  ;D

 

[kratz]

From the suggestions above, both HMCS QUEEN CHARLOTTE AND HMCS TECHUMSEH are already commissioned,
so the new ships can not use those names.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I forgot about HMCS QUEEN CHARLOTTE, but then it's always easy to forget little P.E.I. .

As I read through the thread, however, I just realized we've been had (me included). The replacement program calls for three ships but they only released two names.

Does that mean they have already decided that the "fixed" amount of money they have can only go that far at Seaspan?

... Perhaps it's time for the government to take a look at what is going on at Canada's largest shipyard (yes - largest: it has the same capacity as all the others put together): http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Davie+shipyards+christens+first+large+boat+decades/9084519/story.html

 

[armyvern]

...

AOR
PROVIDER II

...

My call for new AOR:

HMCS Provisioner

 

[jollyjacktar]

My call for new AOR:

HMCS Provisioner

Yes, that's more like it.

 

[cupper]

HMCS 7-Eleven

Or better still

HMCS Canadian Tire.

They could even work up a deal for the naming rights, just like they do at sports stadiums.

The possibilities could be endless.

The RCN, sponsored by Old Navy.

 

[George Wallace]

I'd prefer to be sponsored by 'Old Spice'.  It would be more manly.  ;D

 

[Good2Golf]

I just can't see these naming decisions having been made by the naming committee without direct political interference. They just do not correspond to ANY of the naming conventions of the RCN in its 100 years + history.

If you are to name the ships after "battles" in a British/American war that predates confederation by more than 50 years, at least go for the naval battles that were part of that war.

The War of 1812 North American Naval battle honours include, IIRC: LAKE ONTARIO 1812-1813, LAKE ERIE 1812-1814, LAKE ONTARIO 1813-1814 (there were two distinct phases to the fighting) and LAKE CHAMPLAIN 1812-1814. Mind you, those are Royal Navy battle honours, but Canadian ships of the same name as their British ancestors have been allowed to wear them, such as HMCS CHIPAWA, HMCS STAR, HMCS MONTREAL, HMCS HURON, HMCS ST-LAWRENCE,  and so forth.

Personally if it must be "War of 1812, I say change those names to HMCS LAKE ERIE and HMCS LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

If and when we get "big-honking-ships", i.e. amphibs, then I would have no problem with naming them after  famous Canadian Army battles.

Just my 5cents opinion.

:nod:

How about HMCS Sackets Harbor, to pay homage to an actual 'battle' from 1812 that involved the Navy and indeed some embarked troops, and for Canada's desire to pat itself on the back with what a great job it thinks it always does?

Regards
G2G

 

[Lightguns]

HMCS Pork and Beans

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War

 

[Cloud Cover]

Our Armories will be the local hotel. The mess, parade square and kitchen are all in one facility.

Take that, you ship namers..... ;D

blast yer scuppers matey, you've disclosed the secret design of an NDP style Canadian warship >>> it's got everything but weapons.   

 

[MilEME09]

blast yer scuppers matey, you've disclosed the secret design of an NDP style Canadian warship >>> it's got everything but weapons. 

that's what the water guns are for