You've just been given your very own battleship!

[Jark212]

USS Grey Dawn A Guided Missile Cruiser. I'd paint my ship in Chinese colors then attack North Korea, then re-paint my ship Stranded Grey and watch the show...

 

[Fleischer]

and by the way:
USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned naval vessel.

Nope. She's just the oldest commissioned vessel in the US Navy.

 

[Shock and Awe]

1. Trade it for a nuclear carrier

2. Name it the USS Fuckthehaters

3. ?????????

4. Profit

 

[Ham_authority95]

A certain country has decided that your skills in games (that don't have to involve stupid realistic simulators) make you the perfect captain for your ship.

What will you call yours and why?

I would christen my warship the ss.Chundering Rhino. Its funny, intimidating and it'll make documentaries about it pretty awkward.

I'd say "fuck you" to the nation in question and turn it into a porn/music studio and I would live in it.

I would call it the "SS Fuck While You Sing". Yup.

 

[Averant]

The USS Raincloud. Why? It's simple. Here's a textual aid:

"You see those guys? Fuck them and their entire neighborhood. HERE COMES THE RAIN!

EDIT: Or the USS Candlejack. None of the crew would say its name, but all my enemies would, and then they'd

 

[cheywoodward]

I would call mine the U.S.S. Slut because that's what my crew-members would be. It gets lonely at sea.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Don't you just love how everybody's got hammer on about inconsequential technicalities instead of just going along with the bloody game? Esp. when they can see that someone else has already pointed out that particularly unhelpful technicality. ¬__¬

Anyway, I'd probably call my ship the S.S. Apocalypse Rising

 

[EHKOS]

The Obelisk.
Or, the Collumn of Fall. Or the Normandy Beech. Maybe The Sky Tiger. Or the USS Venture.

 

[breadsammich]

U.S.S. Eastwood. Get off my waters.....

 

[Project Uziel]

Probably the: Yggdrasil or Scheherazade

 

[Vryyk]

I'd cal it the HMS Valiant. I mean,why not? [Fires on B5 as well]

Miss. E5?

 

[Ulfrick]

if they are giving me a ship i'd be calling it whatever it was named. don't you know its bad luck to rename a ship?

 

[SckizoBoy]

and by the way:
USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned naval vessel.

Mmmm, no, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned naval vessel on the water, but HMS Victory was commissioned in 1778, two decades before Constitution was even launched (1797). Also, Victory has spent much more time in commission, as Constitution was decommissioned in 1853, only to be recommissioned in 1860, decommissioned again in 1881 before being granted a permanent commission by FDR during WWII.

Regardless, both have got great histories.

 

[Wintermoot]

White Base! a shiny new boot ready to kick some Zeon ass!

 

[Tsaba]

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A ship that doesn't sail.... is hardly a ship, but, I will concede defeat since the argument was about a "commissioned warship"

 

[SckizoBoy]

A ship that doesn't sail.... is hardly a ship, but, I will concede defeat since the argument was about a "commissioned warship"

Hardly stops them from being able to sail (though USS Constitution would need more overhauling, I think... sorry, scratch that, HMS Victory would need a serious renovation).

Still, a sudden thought came to me: USS Constitution vs. HMS Victory. First thought that would be quite even (Constitution's faster with better made guns, while Victory's larger and got more). However, on second thought... it'll be one sided, purely on the basis of broadside weight (didn't realise Victory had that many 32lbers). And 68lber carronade bow chasers... *hrk*

 

[Kevlar Eater]

I'd call it the USS Rarity.

...what? Shut up.

 

[Vincent Sellar]

Big-@$$-Merc! I dont know why

 

[tahrey]

Battleship?! Battleship?! How antiquated can you get, Mr Pizza?! Navies only really operate aircraft carriers, submarines, multi-task destroyers and missile cruisers in this day and age. =P

Yep... even the Royal Navy got rid of them in the 60s... this was the last one http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/vanguard.htm ... cruise missiles and the like have really changed the game.

But whatever. I'd call it the Yamaha 2, just to send autistic otaku into spasms over how I'd "got it wrong".

The US used the Iowa class Battleships until 1992

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_class_battleship

With a good anti missile defense system the ships are still pretty powerful. If I had one I would plant it off the coast of Somalia.

(And also a similar comment about their use in the Gulf War)
I get your point that some navies used them a fair bit more "recently", but still... that's almost 20 years ago, man. I was in primary school at the time. Riding around in the back seat of my mother's original Fiat Panda. This is like saying to people something like "you've just been given your own B17 bomber" when the latest models are all mid-60s jets. And they were probably on the way to the scrapyard at the time, but pulled out of mothballs for one last jolly as the forces were a bit low on naval support before the newest generation were fully on-line.