|
|
| Class-name |
Named after / for: |
Ahwahnee
|
? Hotel in Yosemite National Park |
| Akira |
Japanese animated series (which is named after Japanese filmdirector
Akira Kurosowa (1910-98) |
| Ambassador |
N/A (except the word "Ambassador") |
| Andromeda |
Galaxy (index # M31, NGC 224), about 2.5 million lightyears
from Sol |
| Antares |
* A red supergiant appx. 600 lightyears from Sol |
| Apollo |
The sun god in Greek mythology, as well as for the spacecraft
that first carried humans to the moon. Son of Zeus and Leto,
twin sister of Artemis. He is also considered to be the god
of music, healing and truth. |
| Bradbury |
The sciene-fiction writer Ray Bradbury. |
| Challenger |
The space shuttle, which blew up 73 seconds after launch,
due to frozen o-rings, killing all 7 astronauts.
|
| Cheyenne |
* An indian nation |
| Chimera |
A half-and-half, a combination of creatures. Based on the
fire breathing monster in greek mythology, which had a lion's
head, a goat's body and a snake's tale. Killed by Bellerephon.
|
| Constellation |
- "A group of fixed stars whose outline is traditionally regarded
as forming a particular figure"
- Dictionary
- * One of the first six US frigates in 1797, along with Philadelphis,
Congress, President, Chesapeake and ?
|
| Constitution |
The USS Constitution, the oldest commisioned warship still
afloat. HMS Victory is older, but is in dry dock.
|
| Daedalus |
Greek mythology. Father of Icarus and builder of the Labyrinth
of Minos. |
| Danube (Runabouts) |
The great river that runs through half of Europe. (As you'll
see all the runabouts are named after rivers.)
|
| Defiant |
N / A (The design prototype was Valiant, which resulted in
the book "The Art of Star Trek" mis-
identifying this as a Valiant class. But it is Defiant, Okuda said so himself) |
| Deneva |
The beutiful planet of Deneva. (in Star Trek) |
| Dreadnought |
"A type of battleship greatly superior in armament to
all its predecessors (from the name of the first
, launched in 1906)"
- Dictionary (that name comes from scripture "Fear God, dread nought.")
|
| Erehwon |
"Nowhere" backwards. Also the title of a utopian
novel by Samuel Butler.
|
| Excelsior |
"higher, outstanding (esp. as a motto or trade mark)".
- Dictionary. (HMS Excelsior is also an ancient name in the British fleet)
|
| Freedom |
* "Give me freedom or give me death" - Patrick Henry |
| Galaxy |
"any of many independent systems of stars, gas, dust
NCC-70637 etc., held together by gravitational attraction".
- Dictionary
|
| Grissom |
Mercury astrounat Virgil I. Grissom. |
| Hope |
- Alec Derwan Hope, australian satiric poet.
- Sir Anthony Hope Hawking, an English novelist.
- The ship was a medical ship, or a ship that brings
'hope'
|
| Hokule'a |
Hawaiin word meaning "star of gladness".
|
| Intrepid |
The carrier which played a crucial part in the battle at Okinawa,
WWII.
There has been an Intrepid in the US. Navy for a while The story there is,
there was a small ship captured by Commodore Edward Preble that was sent
into Tripoli harbour to burn the USS Philadelphia, which had been captured
by pirates in 1803. Also the name of the lunar excursion module of Apollo 12.
|
| Istanbul |
The city in Turkey, former capitol of the Eastern Roman Empire. |
| Korolev |
* Russian space program leader Sergei Korolev.
|
| Mediterranean |
* The Mediterranean Sea. |
| Merced |
* City 55 mi. North West of Fresno, California.
|
| Miranda |
Prospero's daughter, a character in W. Shakespeares play,
The Tempest. Also one of Unarus's moons.
|
| Nebula |
"A bright area caused by a galaxy or a large cloud of
distant stars."
- Dictionary |
| New Orleans |
- The city in U.S.A.
- US navy cruiser.
|
| Niagara |
* The U.S Brig Niagara, the flagship of the Great Lakes fleet. |
* The enormous waterfalls in Canada and U.S.A. |
| Norway |
* The country Norway in Scandinavia, Europe, Earth. Where
the Nobel Peace price is awarded. |
| Oberth |
* German physicist & mathematician Herman Oberth
|
| Olympic |
* RMS Olympic, Titanic's sister ship. |
| Peregrine |
- Peregrine White, the first white child born in New England, born
on the Mayflower. (1620-1704)
- A bird.
|
| Prometheus |
Son of the titan Iapetus. (Greek mythology) His name means
"forethought", as he was able to foretell the future.
Deserted the other Titans to fight at Zeus' side. Zeus delegated
to him and his brother (Epimetheus) to create man, and thus
he is know as the protector and benefactor of man.
He betrayed Zeus by stealing fire from the Gods and giving it to humans,
and was punished. |
| Reliant |
"Having reliance on something or someone: dependant"
- Dictionary
|
| Renaissance |
The period in European history when civilization as we know
it had a dramatic rebirth. |
| Rigel |
* Bright star in the constellation Orion. |
| Sabre |
* A cavalryman's sword. |
| Sequoia |
* A native indian tribe. |
| Sovereign |
* HMS Royal Sovereign. |
| Soyuz |
The Russian spacecraft that shuttled cosmonauts up to the
Salyut space station. Russian word for "federation". |
| Springfield |
* Statecapitol in Illinios.Founded 1818. Birth- and burialplace
of Abraham Lincoln. |
| Steamrunner |
|
| Surak |
* Father of the Vulcan philosophy. |
| Sydney |
* The largest city in Australia. |
| Wambundu |
|
| Whorfin |
|
| Yeager |
Chuck Yeager, first to fly faster than the speed of sound,
on 14th October 1947 in a craft called Glamorous Glennis.
|
| Yellowstone |
* River in the Yellowstone National Park (the largest park
in the U.S) Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. The Yellowstone-class
was an advanced runabout class, and all runabouts are named
after rivers. |
| Yorkshire |
* The county in Great Britain. |
| Zodiac |
* The constellations the sun seems to go through as viewed
from Earth.Also the year horoscopes goes after (i.e beginning
with Aries, March 21st->April 20th).
|
|
|
| Ships names |
Named after/for |
| Adelphi |
- University in N.Y
- a theater where Dickens found insperation
- ? Greek for brother.
|
| Aeon |
* From the Encyclopedia : "in Gnosticism and Manichaeism,
one of the orders of spirits, or spheres of being, that emanated
from the Godhead and were attributes of the nature of the absolute;
an important element in the cosmology that developed around
the central concept of Gnostic dualism--the conflict between
matter and spirit." |
| Agamemnonn |
The Greek mythological figure who was the commander of the
Greek forces during the Trojan war. |
| Ajax |
Two heroes from Greek mythology who fought in the Trojan War,
Ajax of Salamis & Ajax of Locris
|
| Akagi |
The Japanese carrier that fought the U.S.S Hornet during the
Battle of Midway. Admiral Nagumo's flagship
|
| Al-Battani |
An Arabic mathematician and physicist |
| Appalachia |
* A mountain region in Eastern USA. In 1763, the British banned
European settlement in its territories west of the Appalachian
divide. |
| Archon |
* The chief judge in ancient Athens. |
| Aries |
The constellation (the Ram). The beginning of the Zodiac-calender. |
| Arkos/Arcos |
An archeological word meaning a city all built into one building |
| Armstrong |
Neil Amstrong. First man on the moon. In case you missed the
Apollo 11 mission.
|
| Artemis |
* The Greek Mythological God of Hunt, daughter of Zeus and
Leto, her brother is Apollo. Hunts with silver arrows. Also
goddes of virgins and chastity, which goes back to causing Leto
no pain at birth.
Her tree is the cypress. |
Aurora
|
* A brilliant light show that nature gives us in the sky,
called "Northern Lights" up here and "Southern
Lights" down there. |
Beagle
|
* The ship Charles Darwin served on as a naturalisl, which
sparked his controversial theory of evolution. |
| Bellerephon |
- * The (mortal) hero of Corinth. Son of Eurynome, wife of Glaucus,
by Poseidon. Tamed Pegasus after having a dream at the alter to Athena.
Also slained Chimera.?
- A sci-fi reference to the classic movie "Forbidden planet",
in which the ship that arrives to Altair 7
is also called the Bellerephon.
|
| Berlin |
The capitol of Germany. |
| Biko |
Steven Biko, a South African civil rights activist, martyred
in 1977 |
Billings
|
* City in south-central Montana. Very likely since it was
in reference to Janeway, who hails from Montana. |
Birdseye
|
? Clarence Birdseye (1886->1956), the developer of freezed
food. |
| Botany Bay |
* The place where the Australian First Fleet of prisoners
were exiled in 1788, just south of Sydney. It was named by the
Swedish botanist Daniel Solander on one of James Cook's travels. |
| Bozeman |
Named by "Star Trek" writer Brannon Braga, after
his hometown of Bozeman, Montana.
|
| Bradbury |
See Bradbury-class |
| Brattain |
* Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987), Nobel prize winner physicist
(If correct, it was missspelled in the episode) |
| Budapest |
Named for the Hungarian capitol. |
| Buran |
The Russian space shuttle. Burran is russian for "snowflake"
|
| Cairo |
- * The capitol of Egypt.
- ? A city in Illinios, USA.
|
| Carolina |
* State in the USA |
Centaur
|
* A creature, part horse and part man, from Greek mythology. |
Chaffee
|
* Roger Chaffee (1935-1967), one of the three (Virgil Grissom
and Ed White) austronauts killed in the tragice fire of Apollo
1. The other two were Virgil Grissom and Ed White. |
| Charleston |
- The city
- * The Siege of Charleston, a major event
during the American revolution
|
| Chekov |
- * Russian playwriter Anton Chekov.
- * Pavel A. Checkov. TOS character played by Walter Koenig
|
| Clement |
* Hal Clement, Sci-Fi writer. |
| Cochrane |
Zefram Cochrane, the developer of human warp-travell. |
| Columbia |
- * The command module of Apollo 11.
- ? The space shuttle.
- ? South american country.
- ? Take your pick of american geographical places with names like Columbia.
("D.C" = District of Columbia, Columbia Univ., N.Y ...)
|
| Columbus |
The terrestrial explorer Christopher Columbus |
| Concord |
* 'The Skirmishes of Concord'. When British forces tried to
raid a colony in America, which started the Amercian revolution. |
| Constellation |
See Constellation-class |
| Constitution |
See Constituion-class |
| Constantinople |
Another name for the Turkish capital, Istanbul. |
Cortez
|
? Hernán Cortés, a spaniard who led the conquest
of Mexico. Conquored the last Mesoamerican empire in 1521. |
| Copernicus |
* Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer who is
considered the founder of modern astronomy. |
| Cousteau |
The explorer, inventor, writer & filmmaker Jaques-Yves
Cousteau. |
| Crazy Horse |
The Lakota Sioux chief, who was one of the most important
Indian leaders at the Battle of Little
Bighorn. |
| Crockett |
Davey Crockett, an american frontier political leader. |
| Curie |
Polish Nobel Prize winner physicist Marie Sklodowska Curie |
Curry
|
* Dan Curry, special and visual effects supervisor of Star
Trek. |
Dawkins
|
* Richard Dawkins, a Oxford Zoologist who made a career out
of trying to present science in terms that could be understood
by the general public. |
| Defiant |
See Defiant-class |
| Denver |
* The city in U.S.A |
Destiny
|
? "The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person
or thing is destined"
? "Manifest Destiny", the supposed inevitability of the continued
territorial expansion of U.S. boundaries westward to the Pacific, and
even beyond in which was heavily debated in 1845.
|
Dierdre
|
|
| Drake |
- * The British fleet commander, sir Francis Drake who the defeated
the Spanish armada in 1588.
- * Frank Drake. Astronomer that came up with the Drake equation, the
mathematical euqation showing the
probability of extra terrestrial intelligence: N=R(x)xf(p)xn(e)xf(1)xf(i)xf(c)xL
|
| El-Baz |
Former NASA planetary geoscientist Farouk El-Baz. |
| Eagle |
- * "The eagle has landed." Lunar landing module of Apollo
11
- * The bird
- * US Coast Guard training ship.
|
| Endeavour |
NASA's space shuttle, which was named for the British explorer
James Cook's flagship.
|
| Entente |
* French meaning "understanding" in international
politics, friendliness between nations.
|
| Enterprise |
* This name too has a very long record in the USN. First we
have the aircraft carrier during the War of the Pacific, WW
II (CV-6), participated in the Battle of Midway.
We also have the first nucleared powered carrier. (CVN-65) |
| Essex |
- * The first United States vessel to explore west of Strait of Magellan.
Commanded by David Porter. (D. Farragut served on this ship as Midshipsman)
- * A US carrier invovled in the Battle of Leyte gulf.
|
| Excalibur |
* The British legend of the sword Excalibur. |
| Excelsior |
See Excelsior-class |
| Exeter |
* City in England, once center of British resistance to Anglo-Saxon
invaders.
|
| Famin |
|
| Farragut |
* David Farragut, the American Navy genius, dedicated to by
the creation of the ranks Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral and Admiral.
(1801-70)
|
| Fearless |
* A British naval ship during WW II. |
| Fermi |
The physicist Enrico Fermi who developed the first fission
reactor. |
| Feynman |
Dr. Richard Feynman, a Nobel-prize winner. Also the only independant
in the team investigating the Challenger disaster 1986.
(Misspelled in the epsiode!)
|
| Firebrand |
? "A person who stirs up trouble or kindles a revolt."
|
| Fleming |
The Nobel Prize winner Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer
of penicillin. |
Fredrickson
|
|
| Gage |
- * British admiral Thomas Gage, the last royal governer of Massachusettes.
- * There were a whole family of Gages active in the US during the Revolutionary
War.
|
| Galaxy |
See Galaxy-class |
Galice
|
|
| Galileo |
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) inventor of the telescope and
thermometer. Helped disprove much of the medieval thinking of
science.
|
Gander
|
* River that feed the Gander Lake in north-eastern Newfoundland,
Canada |
| Gandhi |
The Indian nationalist leader Mohandes Karamchand Gandhi,
the father of passive resistance. |
| Ganges |
The river in nortern India and eastern Pakstan. |
| Gettysburg |
* The infamous US Civil War battle. |
| Goddard |
* Robert Hutchings Goddard, a rocket scientist. |
| Gorkon |
* The Klingon High Council Leader who took the initiative
to make peace with the Federation. |
| Grissom |
See Grissom-class |
| Hathaway |
Anne Hathaway, aka wife of William Shakespeare. |
| Havana |
* The capitol of Cuba. |
| Hawking |
The mathematical physicist (and ST fan!) Dr. Stephen William
Hawking. |
Helin
|
* Eleanor F. Helin, US planetary scientist, discoverer of
Ra-Shalom Aten-type asteroid |
| Hera |
Sister and wife (?) of Zeus. (Greek mythology) |
| Hermes |
* A Greek mythology messenger. Son of Zeus and Maia. The fastest
god, wearing winged sandals, a winged hat and carries a magic
wand. God of thieves and commerce. Guide to lead people to the
underworld. |
Hiroshima
|
* (Japanese for "Broad Island"). Japanese city that
was the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb. (Aug. 6th 1945) |
Hispaniola
|
* Second largest island in the West Indies. It was the first
land of the "New World" Chris Columbus discovered
in 1492. He named it "La Isla Española", but
it was later changed. |
| Hokkaido |
* The northernmost island of Japan. |
| Honshu |
* Japans biggest island with a population over 100 million. |
| Hood |
British admiral Sir Horace Hood. Also a British battlecruiser
during WWII which helped sink
the Bismarck.
|
| Horatio |
- * The character in Shaekespeare's 'Hamlet'
- * Horatio Hornblower, Cecil Scott Foresters character and explorer.
- * Horatio Gates, leader of the US troops during the battles of Saratoga.
See Saratoga.
|
| Hornet |
American ship that fought at the battle of Midway. |
Icarus
|
* (Greek Mythology) Son of Daedulus. He flew a bit too close
to the sun with the waxen wings and was killed. |
| Intrepid |
See Intrepid-class. |
| Jenolen |
The Jenolen Caves in New South Wales, Australia. |
| Justman |
ST veteran Robert H. Justman. |
| Kearsarge |
- An American carrier. Served as the recovery vessel for Alan Shepard's
Freedom Seven Mercury spacecraft.
- * A ship that sank the Alabama, a Confederate raider
during the Amercian Civil War.
|
Kongo
|
? group of Bantu-speaking peoples related through language
and culture and dwelling along the Atlantic coast of Africa. |
Korolev
|
* Sergei Korolev, leader of the space program in russia,
died during the space race in 1966. |
| Kyushu |
A Japanese island, on which Nagasaki is located. There's also
an orbital launch facility located there.
|
| Lakota |
An Indian tribe. (see "U.S.S Crazy Horse") |
Lakul
|
|
| Lalo |
* French composer Edouard Lalo (1823-1892). |
| Lantree |
* Misspelled/pronounced. It might be Langtry, as in Lily Langtry.
A singer near the turn of the century. She was a favorite of
Roy Bean, who became a Justice of the Peace. He named the town
in Texas after her. |
| LaSalle |
* French explorer Rene Robert Cavalier LaSalle. |
Leeds
|
* City on West Yorkshire, Great Brittain. |
| Lexington |
The carrier which, alongside the Yorktown, fought of a Japanees
invasion in the Coral Sea, WWII, and sunk. And it was named
after the first battle of the American Revolution. |
| Livingston |
- * Robert R. Livingston (1716-78) signer of Decleration of Independence.
- * Homage to ST producer David Livingston
|
| Magellan |
The Spanish navigator Ferdinand Magellan. |
| Majestic |
* A class of small, rapidly built British carriers during
WWII. |
| Malinche |
16th century Mexican princess who was originally a slave given
as a peace offering to the Spanish conquistadors by the Tabascan
Indians.
|
| Mariposa |
Spanish word for "butterfly". |
| Maryland |
Named for several naval vessels that server the United States
Navy in the 20th century. |
Mayflower
|
* The boat that carried European settlers to the "New
World" (specifically Plymouth, Massachusetts) in 1620.
It has since been an icon for white-black racism in USA. |
| Mekong |
The river in Vietnam. |
| Melbourne |
Australian city. |
| Merrimac |
The first US iron-clad warship, fought the Monitor. |
| Milan |
* The Italian city. |
| Monitor |
Another Iron-clad warship, which fought the 'Merrimac' in
the Hampton roads, off Norfolk in the Chesapeake. Also the first
warship with a turret ? |
Musashi
|
* Miyamoto Musashi (1603-1867), famous Japanese soldier-artist
of the early Tokugawa period. |
Muir
|
* John Muir (1838->1914), advocate of US forrest conservation,
largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia and Yosemite
national parks. |
| Nautilus |
- * First submarine
- * Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's "2000 leagues Under
Sea".
- * The first nuclear-powered submarine (US ofcourse).
|
| Nobel |
Swedish (!) industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite,
and founder of the Nobel Prize. |
| Odin |
* The God of Gods in Scandinavian mythology. |
| Odyssey |
- * The epic saga of Odysseus return from the Trojan War, written by
Homeros.
- * The command module of the disasterous Apollo 13 mission.
|
| Okinawa |
Named for the islands in the South China Sea that were the
scene of heavy fighting near the end of WW II. |
| Onizuka |
Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka. (see "Challenger
class") |
| Orinoco |
The river in Venezuela. |
| Pasteur |
French chemist & biologist Louis Pasteur, father of antiseptic.
(I presume this is correct since the ship in question was a medical ship,
commanded by (Cpt.) Dr. Beverly
Picard, but I have no confirmation)
|
| Pegasus |
The winged horse in Greek mythology, tamed by Bellerophon. |
Philadelphia
|
* City in east-central Mississippi.Established 1830 on old
Indian site after the Dacing Rabbit Creek treaty |
| Phoenix |
The greek mythological bird which never gave up! |
| Pike |
Captain Christopher (!) Pike, one of the captains of the starship
Enterprise. |
| Portland |
- * Portland, the biggest city in Oregon.
- * Portland (Me), city burned by the British (1775)
|
| Potemkin |
Grigory Aleksandrovich (no joke!) Potemkin, a Russian military
figure under Catherine II.
The Russians named a battleship after him. In 1905 the sailors mutined in
Odessa, an act which was used as propagande for the Russian Revolution.
|
Princeton
|
* Town in western New Jersey. |
| Prokofiev |
The russian composer Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev. |
| Prometheus |
See Prometheus-class |
| Proxima |
Proxima Centauri, the closest (4.22 lightyears) star to us.
Apart of the triplestar system Alpha Centauri. |
Pueblo
|
- * Indian tribe, the historic descendants of the prehistoric Anasazi
peoples.
- ? Spanish for "town" or "settlement"
|
| Rabin |
* Yitzhak Rabin (1922->1995), Israeli soldier and later
prime minister. Nobel Peace price winner for his efforts trying
to make peace in the middle-east. Was shot and killed during
a public speech on 4th November -95 by a jewish extremist. |
| Raman |
Indian Nobel prize winner physicist Sir Chandraskhara Venkata
Raman. |
Relativity
|
* "in physics, the problem of how physical laws and measurements
change when considered by observers in various states of motion".
See the episode "Relativity" if you have any doubts. |
| Reliant |
See Reliant-class |
| Renegade |
- ? Another "..to boldly go.."-motto.
- ? "The Great Renegade" Simon Girty, North American
soldier who deserted to lead British and
American Indians in raids during the Revolutionary
war.
- ? From the dictionary:
(1) Having deserted a faith, cause or religion for a hostile one.
(2) Having rejected tradition.
|
| Repulse |
British battle cruiser during World War II. Also helped chase
the Bismarck. Was sunk, along with
Prince of Wales by the Japanese in the winter of 1941 near Singapore. |
| Revere |
- ? Paul Rever, Bostonian silversmith and outspoken anti-British.
- ? From the Dictionary:
To show devoted deferential honor to.
|
| Rio Grande |
River which serves as border between the US state Texas and
the country of Mexico. |
Robert Fox
|
|
| Roosevelt |
American president Theodore Roosevelt |
| Rubicon |
Ancient name of the river emptying into Adriatic in neighborhood
of Rimini.
The river Julius Caesar crossed (and said "a´lea iacta est")
to start the final phase of the Roman Civil Wars. |
| Rutledge |
- ? Edward Rutledge, an American statesman. of Charleston.(see "U.S.S
Charleston")
- ? John Rutledge, helped frame the American States Constitution and
signed it. Also chief justice
, US Supreme Court. (brother of Edward Rutledge)
|
| San Paulo |
* State in Brasil with a population over 34 million. |
| Sacajawea |
Shoshone (indian) woman who guided the Lewis and Clark (not
Superman!) expedition to the Pacific Northwest. |
| Sakharov |
Russian nuclear scientist and peace advocate Andre Sacharov. |
| Santa Maria |
Christopher Columbus' flagship that reached the New World
1492 |
| Sarajevo |
Capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Saratoga |
* Another long-going name in the USN.
They were all named after the Battle(s) of Saratoga. Battles during the
American revolution, when British forces, commanded by General Burgoyne,
invaded present day U.S.A from Canada, but got their asses kicked by American
forces, commanded by Horatio Gates, which led to Burgoyne surrendering on
the 17th October 1777. The effect was French back-up of American independence,
and thus is considered the most decisive battle of that time.
(the carrier in "Space: Above and Beyond" is also called the Saratoga.) |
Scovil
|
|
Seaview
|
|
Sentinel
|
To watch over as a guard. To provide with a guard. To post
as a guard. |
| Shenandoah |
* Place of operations for Thomas Jackson's troops during the
US Civil War. |
Shepard
|
* Alan Bartlett Shepard (1923-1998), the first US astronaut
to travel in space. Had an ear problem which caused him to black-out
or loose oriantation, which didn't help him in his career. He
later commanded the Apollo 14. |
| Shiku Maru |
("maru" means "ship" in Japansese") |
| Shirkahr |
|
Silversides
|
? A type of fish |
| Sitak |
|
Spector
|
? Phil Spector, a music producer who have worked with Righteous
Brothers , Ike & Tina Turner, John Lennon, Leonard Cohen
and Ramones |
| Stargazer |
- * From the dictionary: "One who gazes at the stars as a)astronomer
b)astrologer"
- ? Astroscopus Guttatus. (=a fish!
|
Strata
|
? Latin for "layer" in scientific terms. |
| Surak |
See Surak-class |
| Sutherland |
Horatio Hornblower's flagship. (As in Cecil Scott Forresters
novels! Not real-life!) |
Syracuse
|
* REALLY old city located in east coast of Sicily. Established
734 BC by Corinthians led by Archias. |
Tecumseh
|
* Leader of the shawnee-tribe (1768-1813) |
Terra Nova
|
- * National park in Newfoundland, Canada.
- ? Latin for New Earth
|
| Thunderchild |
HMS Thunderchild, a fictional British warship from H.G Wells's
classic novel The War of the Worlds |
| Thomas Paine |
The American patriot & writer. |
| Tian Nan Men |
In honor of the victims who died fighting for freedom in China,
June -89 in The Tian Nan Men - square. |
Ticonderoga
|
* City in North Eastern NY, US. Strategically important during
the American revolution. |
T'Kumbra
|
|
Tombaugh
|
* Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906->1997), american astronomer who
discovered of Pluto in 1930. |
| Tolstoy |
The Russian author Leo Tolstoy. |
| Trieste |
The bathyscaphe in which oceanographer Jacques Piccard (coincidence?)
explored Earth's Marianas Trench in the 1960's, also used in
locating the missing sub-marine USS. Thrasher. |
Trinculo
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* Another character in Shakespeare's "The Tempest". |
| Tripoli |
- * Capitol of Libya.
- * The site of the raid to burn the USS Philadelphia in 1903
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Truman
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* Harry S. Truman (1884->1972), 33rd president of the USA.
"Won" the WWII against Japan by dropping nukes on
them. |
| Tsiolkovsky |
Russian space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. |
| Ulysses |
- * Latin name of Odysseus (see "U.S.S Odyssey")
- * Hiram Ulysses Grant (1822-1885). Chief of the union army late (1864-65)
in the US Civil
War, 18th US president (1866-77)
- ? International Polar satellite, designed to fly over the sun's poles.
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Valdemar
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- ? Valdemar Birgersson (1250-1275), King of Sweden
- ? Valdemar I (1157-1182), King of Denmark
- ? Valdemar Poulsen, then inventor of the first tape recorder
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| Valley Forge |
* Place where the US Continental Army under George Washington
wintered 1777-78. Washington and his advisers took the winter
to drill the army and reform them. |
| Valiant |
* Great Britain's nuclear weapon bombers, manufactured by
Vickers. |
| Venture |
- * "An undertaking of a risk"
- Dictionary
- ? City in California.
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Veracruz
|
* City and Chief port on Mexicos eastern coast. Place for
an international crisis between Mexico and the US, when Woodrow
Wilson (US president) seiged the port to stop a german arms
transport. This played a crucial part in the Mexican Revolution
in 1914. |
Verne
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* Jules Verne (1828->1905), a legendary French sci-fi writer. |
| Vico |
* Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) |
| Victory |
* Admiral Nelson's flagship, which fought at the battle of
Trafalgar. |
| Volga |
* Big river in Russia |
| Voltaire |
The French philosopher. |
| Voyager |
- * A space exploration program by NASA to send out probes to explore
the other planets in our solar system.
- ? From the dictionary:
"to take a trip", sail or traverse.
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| Wellington |
- * British general who fought, and won, at Waterloo.
- ? Capital of New Zealand.
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Whorfin
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Woden
|
? Another name for "Odin", a principal god in Norse
mythology |
| Wyoming |
* State in the US |
Yamaguchi
|
* District at the extreme western part of Honshu, Japan. |
| Yamato |
The Japanese WW II battleship, Adm. Yamamato's flagship in
the Battle of Midway. |
| Yangtzee Kiang |
* A great river in China. |
| Yeager |
See Yeager-class |
| Yellowstone |
See Yellowstone-class |
| Yorktown |
The carrier which, alongside the Lexington, fought of a Japaneese
invasion in the Coral Sea, WWII.
Severly damaged, but repaired in time for Midway.
Named after the final battle of the US Revolutionary War. |
| Yosemite |
The Yosemite National Park. |
| Yukon |
River in northwest Canada and central Alaska flowing 1.979
miles (3185 km.) to the Bering Sea. |
| Zapata |
* Mexican revolution-leader Emiliano Zapata. |
| Zhukov |
Russian General Grigori Konstantinovich Zhukov. |
