uss winston churchill

[pabloback]

for the first time a united states warship has been named after the head of government of another country other than the usa the ship is the uss winston churchill

 

[bluntforcemama]

Next it'll have to be a different species, I think. The U.S.S. Imp.

 

[Merelan]

Was wondering what class it is? (Isn't that what they call it?) And where the info comes from. I am not flaming or anything, just curious.

 

[Bob Peale]

Class of ship:
Arleigh Burke

Type of ship:
AEGIS guided missile destroyer

Mission of ship:
Anti-air, anti-surface, anti-sub, and land attack

Number of ships in class to be built:
51 (CHURCHILL is the 31st)

Number of ships named after a Briton:
5 (CHURCHILL is the 5th)

Number of warships named after foreign nationals:
16 (CHURCHILL is the 16th)

Active U.S. warships named after a foreign national:
1 (CHURCHILL)


http://www.spear.navy.mil/ships/ddg81/


Bob "Master of the Web Search" Peale

 

[sexy-girl]

its in england portsmouth at the moment ... they are holding the biggest maritime event in the world apparently

 

[Merelan]

Thank you both so very much. And i love the site.

 

[Bob Peale]

Not a problem...happy to help

 

[p_p_man]

You might want to read this:

It was the last thread about the USS Winston Churchill, back in March...the debate got quite heated at times!!

http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26337

 

[WriterDom]

The armed merchantman Alfred went into commission in December 1775 as the first ship of the Continental Navy, named after Alfred the Great, the English king who has been called "Father of the Royal Navy." During the Revolutionary War, the frigate Raleigh was named in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh, while another frigate was named Effingham in honor of the Earl of Effingham, who resigned his commission rather than fight against the American colonists.

No Brit ships named for Yanks?

Perhaps a tug boat HMS W. Bush?

Slow, dull, steady, plodding along the choppy water hoping to pull the UK into a missile defense shield.

 

[p_p_man]

Copied from WrterDom' Post:

"No Brit ships named for Yanks?

Perhaps a tug boat HMS W. Bush?

Slow, dull, steady, plodding along the choppy water hoping to pull the UK into a missile defense shield."




Now that's a damned good idea!!

 

[rambling man]

It would seem reasonable that, as much as I hate the francais, we should have a ship named for the Marquis de Lafayette or even Louis XVI. Without them, the War for Independence (it was not a revolution in any sense of the word) is just another colonial uprising that was inefficiently put down, a Boer War type thing just a century or so earlier

 

[Dharwal]

Aus Navy

The state of our navy ships, subs espescially, hmm, this doesnt even warrant a comment 8(