» »

Moderator: Community Manager
[Post Reply] [*]  Page 1 of 1  [ 5 posts ] 
[Print view]
Author Message
TimothyC
Post subject: PoW renamedPosted: May 2nd, 2011, 3:22 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 3765
Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:06 am
Contact: Website
No, Charles didn't get his name changed, but The carrier did
Quote:
Prince Charles 'saves Ark Royal’
The name HMS Ark Royal – one of the most historic in Navy history – will pass to a new aircraft carrier, after an intervention by the Prince of Wales.

By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent 7:30AM BST 02 May 2011
The Prince is understood to have privately agreed to allow HMS Prince of Wales, which is under construction, to be renamed Ark Royal, after the former flagship bearing the name was decommissioned.
A senior Navy officer is understood to have approached the Prince, who holds the rank of admiral in the Navy, who made clear that he had no objection to the name change.
A defence source said: “The Prince of Wales has been asked and he is pretty relaxed about it.”
A senior Navy officer said it was virtually unheard of to change the name of a ship that was already being built.
“But this does recognise that the name Ark Royal is iconic. The name conjures up the whole history of these islands and it would represent the future of the Navy and its past,” he said.
Clarence House said no formal approach had been made on the name change
A Ministry of Defence official said no decision had yet been made on naming the ship, which would be the sixth to be called Ark Royal.

_________________
𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐍𝐄𝐓- 𝑻𝒐 𝑪𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆
Top
[Profile] [Quote]
erik_t
Post subject: Re: PoW renamedPosted: May 2nd, 2011, 3:27 pm
Offline
Posts: 2936
Joined: July 26th, 2010, 11:38 pm
Location: Midwest US
Good of him.
Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Hood
Post subject: Re: PoW renamedPosted: May 2nd, 2011, 3:50 pm
Offline
Posts: 7233
Joined: July 31st, 2010, 10:07 am
Name changes during construction or ordering have often happened. During the later war years 1943-45 British cruisers and carriers seem to swap names continously between each other as did some destroyers.

Ark Royal is better, after all when the carrier completes he may no longer be Prince of Wales given the long building time.

_________________
Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft
Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Portsmouth Bill
Post subject: Re: PoW renamedPosted: May 2nd, 2011, 3:52 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 3220
Joined: August 16th, 2010, 7:45 am
Location: Cambridge United Kingdom
Well, I did have a word in his ear on Friday 8-)

But seriously - great news, the POW was not a lucky ship.
Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Novice
Post subject: Re: PoW renamedPosted: May 2nd, 2011, 6:16 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 4126
Joined: July 27th, 2010, 5:25 am
Location: Vrijstaat
Portsmouth Bill wrote:
great news, the POW was not a lucky ship.
Ark Royal of the same vintage, though led a somewhat charmed life was unlucky in the end, like POW.

_________________
[ img ] Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"
Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Display: Sort by: Direction:
[Post Reply]  Page 1 of 1  [ 5 posts ]  Return to “Off Topic”

Jump to: 

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 18 guests

The team | Delete all board cookies | All times are UTC


cron
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Limited
[ GZIP: Off ]