Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: IA80024@maine.maine.edu (Nicholas C. Hester) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Nicknames (was Re: Battleship Nelson) Message-ID: <1990Aug5.042758.29161@cbnews.att.com> Date: 5 Aug 90 04:27:58 GMT References: <1990Jul24.024932.21117@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Maine System Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Nicholas C. Hester In article <1990Aug2.042311.3031@cbnews.att.com>, c8636248@cc.nu.oz.au says: > > A book I have at home on modern submarines and submarine warfare has a >similar reference to the Royal Navy submarine HMS Explorer ( I think the >class name was Safari ). This had been fitted with an experimental hydrogen >peroxide propulsion system of such dubious propensities that the crew took to >calling it 'HMS Exploder'. Sorta reminds me of the US Carrier, the Forrestal. After so many accidents and fires it acquired the nick, the ForestFire. I told this to my father who was one of the origninal crew when it was first commissioned, and served on board for a couple of years, and got the steeliest glare and warning about talking about the Forrestal like that, that I never mentioned it to him again! Nicholas C. Hester "Quis custoiet ia80024@Maine.Bitnet ip sos custodes?" ia80024@Maine.Maine.edu