amebruz
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Post by amebruz on Sept 4, 2008 18:56:39 GMT -6
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Atoz 77
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Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 5, 2008 8:37:23 GMT -6
Talking about ship classes, there's one thing that confuses me. A committee of naval architects will come up with a design. The ship is built and named (say, the "USS Galaxy"). If the design turns out to work pretty well, the navy might decide to build a second ship using the same plans. All other ships built from the same design are in the same CLASS, and to show that they are given similar names, that is names that have something in common. Maybe you can see where this is going. The only two examples of Galaxy class ships we know are the Enterprise and Yamato. The only thing I can think these two names have in common is that they are also the names of famous World War II era warships. The Enterprise was an American aircraft carrier and Yamato was a Japanese battleship. So if they are Galaxy-class starships, there must logically have been another starship named the Galaxy (the "class ship" or prototype), and I can only surmise it was named for another famous warship, maybe from the early days of space exploration.
The original Constitution-class starships were also named after famous warships of the past -- Constitution, Constellation, Enterprise, Defiant, Intrepid, Potemkin, Hood, and so on. But if you have too many classes that are just named after famous ships of the past, the class designations would stop meaning anything. Ideally, you should be able to at least make a good guess what class a ship is just by knowing her name, shouldn't you? For example -- destroyers, frigates and cruisers might be named after famous warriors, famous battles or military terms. Science and survey vessels might be named after famous explorers, scientists, and so on.
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amebruz
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Post by amebruz on Sept 5, 2008 11:40:17 GMT -6
pretty confusing.. youìre right
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