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No its not a hodge podge at all. I thought all along that they would be commemorating old battleship names.I had my suspicions that the repeating of the SSN line was coincidental to the fact that the names were all used on battleships. That was one reason I thought Churchill was unlikely (as well as the political aspects).On a sidenote however, this probably means the Navy will have the highest number of Royally-connected names than it has had for many years, probably since WW2. Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh never made through to being actual names during the post-war period (proposed for CVA-01 and GW96 cruiser respectively). In many ways its a shame the carriers didn't use some of the old aircraft carrier names rather than recycling two (albeit famous) battleship names.
No its not a hodge podge at all. I thought all along that they would be commemorating old battleship names.
I had my suspicions that the repeating of the SSN line was coincidental to the fact that the names were all used on battleships. That was one reason I thought Churchill was unlikely (as well as the political aspects).
On a sidenote however, this probably means the Navy will have the highest number of Royally-connected names than it has had for many years, probably since WW2. Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh never made through to being actual names during the post-war period (proposed for CVA-01 and GW96 cruiser respectively). In many ways its a shame the carriers didn't use some of the old aircraft carrier names rather than recycling two (albeit famous) battleship names.
