xj900uk -> RE: Air Groups staying fragments (1/26/2010 1:57:40 PM)
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You ought to be able to change the name of ships even after they are launched/commissioned. There was once an escort carrier called 'Midway' that had taken part in several actions before it was hastily renamed so that they could call one of the new advanced Essex-types 'Midway' (and in doing so, create a whole new CV sub-class). Oh, just for the record the escort carrier, which up until now had survived several nasty engagements with nary a scratch, was renamed 'St Lo' after the place in Normandy which had just been captured by US paratroopers just after the D-Day invasion. At the St Lo's next action, which just happend to be Leyte Gulf in October '44, it had a very nasty and fatal encounter with a Kamikaze... Of course, there is a train of thought which says you should never, ever change the name of a ship, even whilst it's on the slipway...
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