Comments by "That Car Guy" (@ThatCarGuy) on "What it's like serving on a state-of-the-art Royal Navy destroyer" video.
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Also name them after famous people who did great deeds in the military among others like Presidents, states, etc as well. There was a cool story in Vietnam of a US destroyer that was about to fire on a US Battleship since it didn't respond and was under radio silence for the mission. It went something like this as in US archives that even had a UK name in it as the captain liked the Dreadnought name :
"The USS Turner Joy, a destroyer with three 5"-38's spotted a target off the coast of North Vietnam.
Assuming it friendly, a radio call was put out:
"This is the USS Turner Joy, Please identify yourself."
No response.
Signal lights were used:
"This is the USS Turner Joy, identify yourself, friend or foe."
No response.
Signal lights again:
"This is the USS Turner Joy, identify yourself or we will commence firing"
Answer:
"This is the Battleship USS New Jersey, You may open fire when ready, fear naught dreadnought"
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