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Offline Clive G Herbert

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Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« on: October 09, 2015, 07:58:51 PM »
There is much specutlation regarding names for the new Type 26 Frigates `Global Combat Ships`.

They will be large warships displacing over 6,000 tonnes, with a length of 148mtrs. They will be armed with the new Sea Ceptre missile replacing Sea Wolf & have vertical launch cruise missiles. With thirteen ships they will form the backbone of the Royal Navy fleet.

There is a compaign to name one of the ships HMS Plymouth, in recognition of it`s fine service in the Falkland`s conflict, HMS Plymouth F126.
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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2015, 09:59:53 AM »
If the RN actually gets 13 ships I'll eat my bonnet.

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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2015, 01:11:28 PM »
You may well be right Malim,

if the Brazilians, Canadians, Australians or anyone else don`t come on board & order any ships, to help drive down costs, there may be only 9 or so built with possibly 4 smaller corvette sized patrol ships equipped with a helicopter & hanger ordered instead.

Possible names include the 14 previous Type 42 destroyer city names & those from the County class destroyers ie, Glamorgan, Fife, Hampshire, Devonshire, London (previously used as a Type 22 batch II), & Norfolk (previously Type 23).

Strong contenders, due to the fact that they haven`t been used since the 1950`s are the County class cruiser names : Suffolk, Berwick, Sussex & Shropshire.

Then there are previous frigate names of the 1950`s & 60`s, such as Lincoln, Exmouth, Torquay, Blackpool, Salisbury, Rothesay, & Chichester.

Lots of competition for names, a political hot potato.

Clive.

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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2015, 03:28:15 PM »
How about naming these new buildings for the capital cities of the UK countries i.e. LONDON , EDINBURGH, CARDIFF ,BELFAST  and similar naval ports name in these countries.
The Royal Navy is the navy of the whole UK.Hope at least 8 ships will be built.

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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2015, 06:26:39 PM »
So if the Type 26 Frigates are named after cities, these would be city names that have had previous warships named after them in order to perpetuate naval history. These are the possible names :

LONDON             MANCHESTER          LINCOLN            SALISBURY          CAMPBELTOWN
BIRMINGHAM         GLOUCESTER          BERWICK            LONDONDERRY        RHYL
GLASGOW            CHICHESTER          EDINBURGH          EXETER             EASTBOURNE
WHITBY             YORK                PLYMOUTH           YARMOUTH           SHEFFIELD
CARDIFF            ROTHESAY            LIVERPOOL          BRIGHTON           TENBY
NEWCASTLE          COVENTRY            BLACKPOOL          WEYMOUTH
HASTINGS           SOUTHAMPTON         EXMOUTH            FALMOUTH
NOTTINGHAM         TORQUAY             LOWESTOFT          CHATHAM       

That`s 37, apologies if i`ve missed any.

Discounted are HMS Belfast which remains on the Themes & HMS Bristol, which remains a training ship in Portsmouth harbour.

Would anyone like to choose 13 or even 8 names ?, imagine the political pressures....

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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2015, 06:50:32 PM »
None Type 42 names are going to be used for the foreseeable future.

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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2015, 09:40:02 PM »
Has it been officially announced then Jon, was it by a politician or by the RN ?

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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2015, 10:47:53 AM »
Can't remember where I had seen it but it was RN related site.

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Re: Names for the new Royal Navy Type 26 Frigates
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2016, 07:46:30 PM »
As it has been announced that there will only be 8 Type 26 Frigates, it is my guess that they will be named after counties, taking the names of previous County class Cruisers & County class Destroyers.

SUFFOLK
HAMPSHIRE
DORSET
FIFE
GLAMORGAN
LONDON
CUMBERLAND
SUSSEX

It has also been announced that there will be 5 `or more` Type 31 Frigates. These would most likely be named after previous Leander class Frigates. There were 26 of these excellent warships built, but the most previously used ship names in the Royal Navy are :

LEANDER
APOLLO
SIRIUS
CLEOPATRA
GALATEA

ACHILLES
ANDROMEDA
DIOMEDE
JUPITER
ARGONAUT
JUNO
PHOEBE
HERMIONE
BACHANTE



 

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