Alternative Dreadnought Names for the Royal Navy

[galveston bay]

there really should have been a "Thunderchild"... just saying

 

[Driftless]

How about about Boudica (however you chose to spell her name)? She gave the Romans hell for a while.

Or, reaching into the common ranks: James Watt, who's innovations made the modern RN possible.
(I had to do an after-the-post fact checks - there was an HMS James Watt, an 1847 Ship of the Line and several HMS Boadiceas)

 

[zert]

Another possibility, though not in the right time, would be...HMS Iron Lady.

 

[zert]

there really should have been a "Thunderchild"... just saying

Plus very fitting to help combat the dreaded Huns.

 

[New Deal Democrat]

HMS Braddock
HMS Elphinstone
HMS Tryon
HMS Burgoyne

 

[Admiral Beez]

there really should have been a "Thunderchild"... just saying

Great idea. HMS Thunder Child was the original Battlestar Galactica.

 

[NHBL]

Battleship names usually are recycled, part of the traditions of the royal navy to keep proud names alive. So, you need something special to add a new name to the register.

If a stray bomb from a Zeppelin struck HMS Victory, then there would be a call for a new Victory...

 

[galveston bay]

Great idea. HMS Thunder Child was the original Battlestar Galactica.

it was also sunk by the Martians in "The War of the Worlds"

 

[Admiral Beez]

it was also sunk by the Martians in "The War of the Worlds"

That's the ship I'm referring to as BSG. HMS Thunder Struck was tasked with escorting and protecting the fleeing mankind from the victorious enemy horde.

 

[cpip]

HCMS Canada, HCMS, Ontario, HCMS Quebec, HCMS New Brunswick and HCMS Acadia might be good for Canadian battleships.

The three battleships the Canadians had proposed under the failed Naval Aid Bill were expected to be commissioned as Ontario, Quebec, and Acadia.

For that matter, HMS Trafalgar had been paid off in 1911 and didn't get used again until a Battle-class destroyer; you'd think that most famous of battles deserves a dreadnought.

 

[New Cleo Genesis]

Is it really so that there has been no vessel named after James Cook other than this?

 

[Admiral Beez]

Is it really so that there has been no vessel named after James Cook other than this?

He was an explorer, so a survey ship seems apt. Along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Shackleton and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_William_Scoresby

Though Franklin got a warship named after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Franklin_(J84)

You'd not want to pick an explorer's name for a Dreadnought. Otherwise, we may end up with HMS Bligh (K467) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bligh_(K467)

 

[Tonrich]

Now I haven't had time to check if these names had been used in the HMS registry but how about:

• HMS Excalibur (watching an episode of the original Star Trek reminded me of this one)
• HMS Sherwood
• HMS Loxley
• HMS Tempest
• HMS Raleigh
• HMS Magna Carta

Anyways I'm sure others of you could build off of this list...

 

[perfectgeneral]

Royal William is free. Not really alt though.
Thunderer, Thunderbolt, Thunderoll, Thunder, Drake's Drum, Devastator, Decimater, Destructor, Doomster, Ariel, Agamemnon, Argo, Artemis
Battleaxe, Battlesword, Battlespear, Broadsword, Broadaxe, Champion, Conqueror, Commander, Captain, Commodore, Empire, Elephant, Elegant, Envoy, Echo, Faithful, Fateful, Feisty, Fighter, Gainsay, Greatness, Grittiness, Giant, Horace, Hector, Horatio, Henry

I don't know. Just spit-balling names really.

 

[Coulsdon Eagle]

I'd start here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_names_of_the_Royal_Navy_(I–L)#I

My reco for others in I class perhaps most apt at Jutland, HMS Infernal, HMS Ignition and HMS Incendiary

HMS Immolation?

 

[Jeremak]

Some time ago i was a knee-deep in RN battleships and battlecruisers names for quite big XIX century and alternate "come later WW1" timeline. Royal Navy battleline was quite big in this timelines, so i needed to find some names. Some were recycled from armoured crusiers:
Guardian for 4th St. Vincent class (in theme of Vanguard), Poseidon for 4th Colossus class, Canada, Quebec and Viligant for additional QE class BBs, Resistance for additional Revenge class BB. For "Next Revenge" class was used ACR names: Devastation, Perseus, Warrior and Hector. For "Next QE" class queen theme was keeped: Queen Anne, Queen Victoria, plus Barlfeuer and Cerberus. "Post WW1 BB class/N3" would be "M class": Magnificent, Majestic, Mars, Jupiter, Caesar, Hannibal, Canopus, Ocean

Battlecruisers: Intolerant and Intransigent for additional Indeftigables, Valorous as a 4th Fisher folly, Victorious, Venerable, Vengeance, Formidable for G3 class (with all 4 Hoods build).

 

[Admiral Beez]

The names of the RN's ships today are rather lame, though they have only a few ships worthy of use on the Dreadnought. It is noteworthy that of the RN's current active ships, only a very few below made it onto any battleship, and mostly PDs. Of course Vanguard was used for two dreadnoughts, but there's no longer a ship of that name in the RN.

Astute-class
HMS Astute
HMS Ambush
HMS Artful
Trafalgar-class
HMS Torbay
HMS Trenchant
HMS Talent
HMS Triumph
Vanguard-class
HMS Victorious
HMS Vigilant
HMS Vengeance
HMS Ocean
Albion-class
HMS Albion
HMS Bulwark
Type 45 or Daring-class
HMS Daring
HMS Dauntless
HMS Diamond
HMS Dragon
HMS Defender
HMS Duncan
Type 23 or Duke-class
HMS Argyll
HMS Lancaster
HMS Iron Duke
HMS Monmouth
HMS Montrose
HMS Westminster
HMS Northumberland
HMS Richmond
HMS Somerset
HMS Sutherland
HMS Kent
HMS Portland
HMS St Albans
River-class
HMS Mersey
HMS Severn
HMS Tyne
HMS Clyde
Hunt-class
HMS Ledbury
HMS Cattistock
HMS Brocklesby
HMS Middleton
HMS Chiddingfold
HMS Atherstone
HMS Hurworth
HMS Quorn
Sandown-class
HMS Penzance
HMS Pembroke
HMS Grimsby
HMS Bangor
HMS Ramsey
HMS Blyth
HMS Shoreham
P2000 or Archer-class
HMS Archer
HMS Biter
HMS Smiter
HMS Pursuer
HMS Blazer
HMS Dasher
HMS Puncher
HMS Charger
HMS Ranger
HMS Trumpeter
HMS Express
HMS Example
HMS Explorer
HMS Exploit
HMS Tracker
HMS Raider
Scimitar-class
HMS Scimitar
HMS Sabre
Echo-class
HMS Echo
HMS Enterprise
Other
HMS Scott
HMS Protector
HMSML Gleaner

 

[Battleshiplover]

Heres some more:
Henry V
Samuel Pepys
Jervis

 

[Driftless]

Depending on timing, How about a "HMS Falklands" commemorating the victory over von Spee?

 

[Admiral Beez]

Depending on timing, How about a "HMS Falklands" commemorating the victory over von Spee?

That reminds me of the current RN, all the names commemorating British victories have been scrubbed. It's as if they don't want to offend anyone and have forgotten that the RN exists solely to break stuff.

Yesterday's RN had no such qualms about shaking the British ballsack in the face of its former combatants....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Blenheim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Culloden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Waterloo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agincourt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ramillies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barfleur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Aboukir

Interestingly, most of the above are land battles, not naval engagements.

Heck, they don't even want to annoy the Dons with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gibraltar so they're never going to even make a sideways "unintended" reference via a renewed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Falkland

At best we can hope a new HMS Trafalgar is made, but I'm not sure what ship under construction or planned would be suitable, perhaps a unit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor-class_submarine , which in itself is a stupid and hopefully temporary name for a class of vessels.