Naming a RN ship after Sunderland...

[moshpit]

I never knew about Trafalgar Square in Sunderland. Just read up on it, very interesting, thanks.

 

[KarenDent]

Would you support a campaign?

Just a toe in the water but there's a few frigates in the 26/31 city class that's gonna need a name in the next few years and according to one of the Ships Names Committee they're open to suggestions.

My first pitch was that the oldest Trafalgar Square in the country is in Sunderland in recognition of how many people lost their lives in the battle from our town. And they're all commemorated too.

Yes Mr.W of course I would

 

[Charmless Man]

HMS Chris Maguire has a ring to it.

 

[Jack Wolforskin]

HMS JOE FAB

VD and Scar.

 

[Stubbs ftm]

Perhaps the HMS Collins (made in Wales but the finishing touches applied on Wearside) could move slightly starboard to make sure of a successful passage.

Surely that would have to be a Brazilian naval ship?

 

[Ben Gardner]

HMS Save Seaburn, with a Flemish flag of convenience.

 

[cornish mackem]

HMS Wearside
Or HMS Tybarns

 

[Cockney Mackem]

HMS Wearside
Or HMS Tybarns

Taybarns would be a good name for a submarine with stealth technology, where the enemy was never sure if it's really there or not

 

[Headingley Slog Fest]

With HMS Ocean retiring, the Navy are affiliating a new Submarine that’s getting built with Sunderland

 

[Deleted User 11453]

I never knew about Trafalgar Square in Sunderland. Just read up on it, very interesting, thanks.

I hadn’t heard of it either.
Trafalgar Square, Sunderland | North of England Civic Trust

 

[andyw]

I hadn’t heard of it either.
Trafalgar Square, Sunderland | North of England Civic Trust

One of my favourite spots in Sunderland.

 

[Wearside Wanderer II]

Which will never visit as we don't have nuclear docking facilities.

Outside of my knowledge zone mate, thought you would just need deep enough water!

 

[Morse]

HMS Pound Shop
HMS Teen Pregnancy

Or, more positive,
HMS Shackleton,
HMS Swan.

Outside of my knowledge zone mate, thought you would just need deep enough water!

I’m amazed they got HMS Ocean up the Wear, I’d assumed it was maybe only 10-12ft deep. Didn’t they stop dredging decades ago?

 

[Wearside Wanderer II]

HMS Pound Shop
HMS Teen Pregnancy

Or, more positive,
HMS Shackleton,
HMS Swan.



I’m amazed they got HMS Ocean up the Wear, I’d assumed it was maybe only 10-12ft deep. Didn’t they stop dredging decades ago?

No mate, the river channel and Corp quay/greenwells are regularly dredged, probs every 3/4 months, usually the dredger works non stop for a couple of days and makes a right racket.
Me granda worked the dredgers in the 80’s down at the port, not relevant st all but thought I would mention it for no reason!

 

[Big Duke Six]

HMS Deathtrooper

 

[LondonBlackCat]

Lovely idea but unlikely unless the new class’s lead ship has a name beginning with S.

We’ve already got the city class destroyers, so naming the new ships after a city seems unlikely.

Not to say they can’t break with convention of course

 

[zwartekat]

Got my support.

 

[Morse]

No mate, the river channel and Corp quay/greenwells are regularly dredged, probs every 3/4 months, usually the dredger works non stop for a couple of days and makes a right racket.
Me granda worked the dredgers in the 80’s down at the port, not relevant st all but thought I would mention it for no reason!

Cheers, marra! Any idea how deep it is at that part of the river? I expect it’d have to be pretty deep to get something like HMS Ocean along it safely!

 

[Kevj]

Cheers, marra! Any idea how deep it is at that part of the river? I expect it’d have to be pretty deep to get something like HMS Ocean along it safely!

7.5m LAT with 8.5m LAT at Corporation Quay.

 

[Morse]

7.5m LAT with 8.5m LAT at Corporation Quay.

Crikey! I wonder how much clearance that gives HMS Ocean! They must be hoying stuff overboard when they arrive.