Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "History Buffs: The Terror" video.

  1. Whatever else anyone can say about the British, they are by far and beyond the world's best country at naming naval vessels. HMS Terror is an outstanding name. In America, it would be named after some congressman who spent 40 years in Congress and sponsored a few naval spending bills. In Japan, it would be named something really faggy sounding like "cherry blossom". Pretty much everyone else names their ships after people and places, which is boring. The Japanese come up with weird "poetic" names which are absolutely ridiculous for warships (IJN Zuikaku, one of the carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, has a name that translates to "Auspicious Crane". Absurd.). But the British give their ships names that would make the sailors proud to serve on them. HMS Vengeance is a ballistic missile submarine. How utterly appropriate for a second-strike doomsday weapon to be named Vengeance. And a lot of their old carriers had names like Glorious, Illustrious, Invincible, Courageous, etc (admittedly HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, their two current carriers, have lame names). I wish the US Navy would take a hint from the Brits when it comes to naming warships. It just doesn't sound as intimidating when USS John C Stennis is steaming towards your coast as it would with a ship named Indomitable or Victorious.
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  2. And a little bit later they learned the truth about cannibalism among British sailors. See R v. Dudley and Stephens.
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