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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: more stuff
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 13:41:54 EST
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> <A bug, Jim>
> 
> >...The Enterprise is dead, let her rest in peace!...
> >You name houseboats or yachts "<whatever> II", but not starships!!!!!!
> [About Kirk getting a new ship called "Enterprise" or "Enterprise II"]
> 
> I'm under the impression that once a ship is destroyed/scrapped in the
> present day navy, the ship's name is free to be used again.  This would
> permit Kirk's new ship the be christened "Enterprise" since no other
> ship in the fleet has this name.  Personally, I prefer names like the
> "Vincible", the "Pervious", or the "Pregnable" (I mean, calling a ship
> the "Indestructable" is asking for trouble :-).
> 
> Merlyn Leroy


Wasn't there a carrier in WWII named "Enterprise"?  Was this decommissioned
(scrapped) before the current nuclear version?

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