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Here you'll find classic and classy boat names of the more serious sort (like the "Honey Fitz" yacht that once belonged to JFK and Jackie O.), as well as funny boat names that your fellow captains ...
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.
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality. In the modern environment, prefixes are cited inconsistently in civilian service, whereas ...
Ship names comprises all articles relating to the naming of ships, as opposed to specific vessels. Articles on names attached to multiple vessels as well as those ...
For older ships predating the modern pennant/hull number system, the most widely recognisable fact about the ship is its date of launch or construction. This is a unique identifier for a ship with a particular name in navies where names are customarily re-used and is applicable generally to all ships, unlike local naval identification numbers:
HMS Cutlass – name given to four ships of the Royal Navy – the first a battleship present at the Battle of the Nile; the second an ironclad sunk in World War I; the third a World War II destroyer, and the most recent ship a Cold War-era destroyer.
The Ohio-class of ballistic missile submarines has 17 boats with state names, and the Seawolf-class (attack subs), the Columbia-class (missile subs) and the San Antonio-class of amphibious transport docks use one name each, for a total of 48.
Only disambiguation and shipindex pages (both used to detail multiple ships of the same name) should be included in this category. Individual ships (including those that are the only one to bear the name) should instead be categorised in Category:Ships of the Hellenic Navy, or the relevant subcategory for the type of vessel.