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How about British Interplanetary and Colonial Star Lines? By colonial of course, I mean Earth's colonies; it has a sort of 1930s sound to it.
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You're right, it does look "Liberal". And considering what that B@#tard McGuinty (Our beloved premier) just did maybe a WestJet logo would work better.
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A slight revision of the Canada livery using the goose from the real Canadia/en Airlines. Still no windows. Also, a British design using the traditional Speedbird emblem and the Union Flag tail flash.
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quote:Originally posted by Captain Boh: Does the Space Canada say Vancouver on it? Cool
I figure that ships still have home ports, even if they are launched from orbit. I suppose I could have chosen a landlocked city, like Calgary, but that sounded a bit funny to me.
Question: What's the name prefix for modern Canadian and UK civilian ships? I remember that Titanic used RMS, but do Canadian ships use some variation of it, such as RCMS? (RMS evidently means "royal mail steamer"?)
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I've had a look around and I'm fairly sure it's just SS (Steam Ship, originally) for Merchant navy ships. Unfortunately, most sites about civilian ships are a little erratic about prefixes. There also seem to be some with the prefix MV, I guess for Merchant Vessel.
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The newest Cunard liner, Queen Mary 2, still carries the RMS prefix, although it now stands for "royal mail ship" rather than "royal mail steamer."
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This looks so great. Quick question (and it is a bit embarrassing):
What exactly does a Destroyer Tender do? Does it carry extra ammo and fuel so the destroyers don't have to be bigger and less maneuverable as a consequence of carrying their own? I'd heard the term several times in the past and was always a bit foggy on what it meant.
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Yeah, something like that. They repair battle damage, and provide logistic and maintenance support for destroyers and other types of ship. Their crews are mostly technicians and repair crews. So, I suspect they'll carry torpedoes, spare parts, food, fluids, etc. and do repair and maintenance on anything that needs fixing. They might also carry spare antimatter bottles and deuterium, or perhaps other specialized ships carry those fuels.
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As I understand it, the idea of a tender is that it helps bring the repair facilities out to the combat ships, so the repairs can be done in the field rather than forcing the combat ships to travel all the way back to base every time they need to get something fixed.
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