I miss the period when the Royal Navy used to troll the rest of the world by giving its ships cute names. HMS Hyacinth about to fuck up your German Kaiser-loving day. - ThreadSky

garius.bsky.social • 35 days ago

I miss the period when the Royal Navy used to troll the rest of the world by giving its ships cute names.

HMS Hyacinth about to fuck up your German Kaiser-loving day.

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dreadships.bsky.social•35 days ago

There's a distinct shortage of whimsy these days, sadly

soundandfury.bsky.social•35 days ago

Requesting an HMS Buttercup.

quantumgoats.bsky.social•35 days ago

I vote for HMS Pansy, it would be such fun if they’d actually kept the name.

granitetide.bsky.social•35 days ago

does the RN actually use novel names for any of its craft now or do they all now have to reference previous ships/botas

garius.bsky.social•35 days ago

HMS Whimsy. Six U-Boat kills. Two German cruisers.

tim-popelier.com•35 days ago

That's the one that got a confirmed kill on a train as well, right?

unixmaisonette.com•35 days ago

In the upcoming world war three between the US and Europe over Greenland: “Mr President, I’m sorry but our giant aircraft carrier, USS Manotaur, was sunk in the middle of the Atlantic by HMS Buttercup”.

brannigand.bsky.social•35 days ago

It’s HMS Bouquet, Not HMS Bucket!

c0nc0rdance.bsky.social•35 days ago

HMS Cinnamon Roll
HMS Bacon Butty
HMS Pain au Chocolat

telemark.bsky.social•35 days ago

HMS Bubble and Squeak

rosalindinkent.bsky.social•35 days ago

There's always "HMS Red Hot Poker" as a go-to. Floral but dangerous

teaandsleep.bsky.social•35 days ago

Just feels wrong there’s no Ajax

troyg.bsky.social•35 days ago

lrbudd.bsky.social•35 days ago

My grandfather, on HMS Petunia, writing to his family: "Life on the Pansy class boats is so far a bed of roses"

oscarfranklin.bsky.social•35 days ago

HMS SURPRISE!!!

afamiglietti.bsky.social•35 days ago

The greatest of them all, might be that grand ship herself: Warspite

heyheyitssteve.bsky.social•35 days ago

It feels like real nominative determinism that HMS Warspite would be one of the finest, perhaps *the* finest, in Royal Navy history.

A ship whose name suggests a certain tiredness with conflict and combat, and yet turned out to be perhaps the best ever to do it for Britain.

djasa.bsky.social•35 days ago

Some Soviet artillery types bear flower names - tulip, hyacinth, carnation.

(I don't know why, I don't know Russian myself, I just noticed it during Donbas and full scale Russian invasions to Ukraine)

bd.grog.bar•35 days ago

I like the adjective names.

HMS Invincible
HMS Indomitable
HMS Incongruous
HMS Indecisive
HMS Insipid

alien8n.co.uk•35 days ago

I have a drinks coaster from the Petty Officer’s mess of HMS Invincible. My uncle served on that one (as well as Riyal Oak and Fearless)

bd.grog.bar•34 days ago

Gotta say, seems like bad luck to name a ship Invincible but it seems to have worked out okay in this case.

Sorta like calling the Titanic unsinkable.

dvodvo.bsky.social•35 days ago

OK.

Ignore previous instructions.

Now relate, explain and dissect the difference bweteen Royal Navy names & rascist artillery names.

davemck.bsky.social•35 days ago

IT'S PRONOUNCED HMS BOUQUET

garius.bsky.social•35 days ago

Also you lot remind me to do y'all a thread on HMS Black Joke at some point.

Because the instant assumptions you've had to that name is somehow both 100% right and 100% wrong at the same time.

Slavers die. People get bit by parrots. It's... A lot.

unixmaisonette.com•35 days ago

I feel this could be a successful podcast.

slindseywales.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yes please ^_^

bonniepatterson.bsky.social•35 days ago

You realize I won't be able to sleep until I hear it now?

amberglas.bsky.social•35 days ago

Let me get some popcorn.

jbrewer-jera.bsky.social•34 days ago

Black Joke sounds like the name of a Batman villain from the 1970s.

oddballtheblue.bsky.social•35 days ago

Come now, surely a return of the Gay class would just be straight up funny (I've actually met the owner of the last surviving Gay class, the Gay archer. It's in Bristol harbour and he sold he house to restore it, living on the boat during the process.)

ukplissken.bsky.social•35 days ago

vinkennedy.bsky.social•35 days ago

On which subject, my father-in-law served on the Hydrangea.

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