Nope, 'tis moi - 'cause I so fly.
Obviously the only appropriate capitalist solution is to sell naming rights to corporations a la sports arenas. Fear the mighty USS ConAgra Foods!
Unfortunately, in an effort to streamline costs and maximize parts commonality, this carrier’s design was derived from work originally done on the Interstate Highway System…
While, admittedly, building a section of five-lane freeway in the drydock may not have been the best plan in itself, the real pain is trying to land on the lower deck.
ISTM the part of the old tradition by which Destroyers/Frigates were named after celebrated naval figures or war heroes remained mostly in place through the chaotization of the naming conventions that bump mentioned.
I would imagine part of the matter was that with the reduction in the total size of the fleet and the reduction in classes of ship (no more battleships, soon no more cruisers, frigates are on then off then on again, no more non-nuke carriers or subs), there came increased pressure for some of the “prestige” names to be kept alive on some ship afloat, and at the same time for the names of some “special people” to be given to prestigious “capital” ships. Once was you’d never dream of naming a fleet carrier after a living ex-Senator; now, well, do you or don’t you want his buddies still in the Senate to vote to approve your weapons system?
(The old general convention used to be IIRC:
Battleships: States (Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada, Iowa)
Carriers: historic battles, historic ships (Lexington, Saratoga, Enterprise, Bonhomme Richard)
Cruisers: Cities (St. Louis, Indianapolis, San Juan)
Destroyers: Heroes, historic naval figures (Farragut, Fletcher, Gearing)
Submarines: Sea creatures real and imaginary (Balao, Finback, Squalus, Kraken))
Batman.
This is silly. The lower deckis only for take-offs!
I’d pay real money to see that. Would have to be one of those stealth destroyers. Or maybe one of those special submarines outfitted for the Navy Seals.
Flattop, the Dick Tracy Villain.
If you have any doubts, look at his image from the Daffy Duck cartoon The Great Piggy Bank Robbery:
They should sell the naming rights. USS “Coca-Cola” is a GREAT idea!!! Big white sloop along the ballast line.
Who is going to shoot at the coca cola ship?
Uh-Oh, here comes the Pepsi ship!! WAR IS ON!
Mission Accomplished.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
I think Langley had one. How about the USS Mark Twain? or Tecumseh? didn’t Tecumseh try to get accepted into the Naval Academy, or am I dreaming
Well, we DID have a USS Wolverine, a USS Colossus, and a USS Cyclops…'though the latter has up and vanished on us.
If boomers are now capital ships, he got his:
And yes Langley had his carriers. The Navy’s first one in fact USS Langley (CV-1) - Wikipedia and another one USS Langley (CVL-27) - Wikipedia
Huh… for some reason the link-parse function placed the final parenthesis outside the url tag…
No one living.
Since carriers are all about projecting power, creating a “don’t fuck with me” image to potential trouble, then I vote USS Harry Callahan.
You KNOW what the squadron motto would be,
“Watch me yell at this empty chair!”?
No, that’s the USS Clint Eastwood. An easy mistake.
They had to take it out of service, though, because it started turning to the right and couldn’t stop.
In the Harry (“don’t fuck with me”) Callahan carrier class, the next two would be the USS Rocky Balboa and the USS John J. Rambo.