Bob McDob
Better Health Through Less Flavor
Guess what? I'm posting a list of German ship names for no damn reason whatsoever! (Don't worry, it's NOWHERE as long as Cadfael's 
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Bismarck: Prussian statesman, 1870s; German battleship, destroyed battlecruiser HMS Hood, sunk by HMS Ark Royal And King George V.
Luzgow: battlecruiser, WWI.
Scharnhorst: battlecruiser, WWI; battleship, WWII.
Gneisenau: battlecruiser, WWI, battleship, WWII.
Deutchland: name for Germany; German battleship, WWI; WWII.
Nassau: battleship, (1908) German response to the Dreadnought; generally accept4ed as inferior but served with distinction during battle of Jutland.
Kaiser: German clas of pre-dreadnought battleships, late 1800s; class of German WWI battleships; name comes from rulers of Germany (Kaisers).
And (just for kicks) Japanese names!
Kirishima: WWI\II battleship; sunk by USS Washington and South Dakota 14 November 1942.
Kaga: Originally slated to become battleship; later converted to aircraft carrier. Launched Pearl Harbor attack with Akagi, Hiryu, Soyu, Shokaku, and Zuikaku, and sukn at battle of Midway with the first three.
Yamato: name for Japan; Japanese battleship (1943), sunk by massive air and sea attack April 1945. Also seen in Space Battleship Yamato; Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Mogami: WWII cruiser.
Nagato: WWI\II battleship; survived war, sunk at Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests 1946.
Haruna: WWI\II battleship; sunk near end of war.
Mikasa: Admiral Togo's flagship at Battle of Tsushima Straits, 1905; now museum at Yokosuka.
Soryu: WWII Carrier. One of four aircraft carriars that launched the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, sunk the following year at Battle of Midway 1942.
(BTW, native German or Japanese speakers are welcome to help work out the TRUE meaning of these names ^_^).
):Bismarck: Prussian statesman, 1870s; German battleship, destroyed battlecruiser HMS Hood, sunk by HMS Ark Royal And King George V.
Luzgow: battlecruiser, WWI.
Scharnhorst: battlecruiser, WWI; battleship, WWII.
Gneisenau: battlecruiser, WWI, battleship, WWII.
Deutchland: name for Germany; German battleship, WWI; WWII.
Nassau: battleship, (1908) German response to the Dreadnought; generally accept4ed as inferior but served with distinction during battle of Jutland.
Kaiser: German clas of pre-dreadnought battleships, late 1800s; class of German WWI battleships; name comes from rulers of Germany (Kaisers).
And (just for kicks) Japanese names!
Kirishima: WWI\II battleship; sunk by USS Washington and South Dakota 14 November 1942.
Kaga: Originally slated to become battleship; later converted to aircraft carrier. Launched Pearl Harbor attack with Akagi, Hiryu, Soyu, Shokaku, and Zuikaku, and sukn at battle of Midway with the first three.
Yamato: name for Japan; Japanese battleship (1943), sunk by massive air and sea attack April 1945. Also seen in Space Battleship Yamato; Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Mogami: WWII cruiser.
Nagato: WWI\II battleship; survived war, sunk at Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests 1946.
Haruna: WWI\II battleship; sunk near end of war.
Mikasa: Admiral Togo's flagship at Battle of Tsushima Straits, 1905; now museum at Yokosuka.
Soryu: WWII Carrier. One of four aircraft carriars that launched the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, sunk the following year at Battle of Midway 1942.
(BTW, native German or Japanese speakers are welcome to help work out the TRUE meaning of these names ^_^).
