Re: "Enterprise" to honor the Columbia crew with season 4's 3rd episode

From: Andrew Gray (andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: 30 Jul 2004 19:29:51 GMT

On 2004-07-30, OM
<om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:50:36 +0800, "Neil Gerace"
><geracen@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>>Likely to have been named after the Queen of the Fairies from A Midsummer
>>Night's Dream. The king's name was Oberon; HMAS Oberon was a submarine.

HMS Titania was a submarine depot ship... ;-)

HMS Oberon was a submarine (in fact, two of them) as well, though when
Titania was launched the Oberon in service was a destroyer. Two previous
sloops, as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Oberon

> ...Yeah, well, most Limey ships tend to get named for faries :-P

HMS Fairy... HMS Flirt... HMS Spanker... stop giggling in the back
there.

I confess I still occasionally wonder what twisted mind felt the need
for some of these. http://home.swipnet.se/~w-11578/model_links.htm

"A quick check unearthed the destroyers HMS Fairy and HMS Frolic, the
light cruiser, HMS Sappho and the corvette, HMS Pansy. My first
assumption was that these names had been chosen by some fresh faced
innocent unaware of their connotations, but a careful reading of the
index suggested that the choice of such names was deliberate and
malicious. I have no proof for my theory, but I strongly suspect that
they were the creations of an embittered clerk." 

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk