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The name unveiling traditionally takes place at a boat christening, which involves striking your vessel—a not-prone-to-damage metal fixture, preferably—with a bottle of pre-scored Champagne.
Q Boat – Q's fishing boat, The World Is Not Enough, 1999; Queen Anne's Revenge – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011; Queen Conch – To Have and Have Not, 1944; Rachel – Moby Dick, 1956, 1998; Reaper – Dog's ship in Cutthroat Island, 1995; Red Dragon – civilian yacht, Rush Hour 2, 2001
In Nicholas Monsarrat's original book, HMS Saltash was a larger River-class frigate) Rockhampton (in the 1955 John Wayne film The Sea Chase ; portrayed by River-class frigate HMCS New Glasgow ) Sea Tiger (submarine, in the 1943 film We Dive at Dawn ; portrayed by Turkish S-class submarines P614 and P615)
This guideline describes Wikipedia's conventions for naming articles about ships and for referring to ships in the body of articles. See Wikipedia:Article titles for more general naming conventions. See WikiProject Ships for more guidance on writing articles about ships. Ships share names with people, places, animals and other things.
First class torpedo boats (and over 120 tons displacement)—birds Hayabusa (隼) Peregrine falcon; Second class and third class torpedo boats (less than 120 tons displacement)—consecutive number from '1' Torpedo boat No. 21 (第21号水雷艇) And after 30 May 1931—birds Chidori (千鳥) Plover; Kiji (雉) Pheasant; Submarines
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
A California man who was ordered to keep his boat out of sight has had the last laugh, by commissioning an artist to paint a realistic image of it on the fence that obscures it.