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Edinburgh has to be a given to keep the scots happy.
Sheffield / Newcastle / Manchester / Liverpool all worth a shout but very northern centric so not all. Maybe Gloucester / Southampton or Exeter may slip in there to address the balance.
I can't see there being a Plymouth with the recent news about basing T26 at Devonport / retaining the amphib fleet and not forgetting HMS Tamar.

Rambo wrote:Edinburgh has to be a given to keep the scots happy.
Sheffield / Newcastle / Manchester / Liverpool all worth a shout but very northern centric so not all. Maybe Gloucester / Southampton or Exeter may slip in there to address the balance.
I can't see there being a Plymouth with the recent news about basing T26 at Devonport / retaining the amphib fleet and not forgetting HMS Tamar.

I like the idea of one from Manchester, then Newcastle and finally Exeter.
That should cover all parts of the UK.

ArmChairCivvy wrote:

CameronPerson wrote: Why aren’t they naming the ships in order?

The full stop (to the sorry saga) has to be put somewhere... and leave no doubt

Agreed, naming the 8th ship HMS London at this stage makes it a tiny bit harder to subsequently order less then eight ships and given that doing it this way doesn't cost the RN anything I applaud the political savvy.

SKB wrote:"British" is not a nationality, its just a convienient overall passport citizenship title for all citizens of all the nations within the UK and other British Islands. The nationalities within the UK are English, Scots, Welsh, Northern Irish - and Cornish. My nationality is English, not British.

While this is completely off topic it's also complete bollocks.

I'm British. You can be English if you want to be. But I'm British and no-one is telling me I'm not.

When I asked if there were any takers for Edinburgh, Swansea & Londonderry for the last three, The theme behind the names used so far seemed likely be extrapolated for Scotland, Wales and NI. Namely the "First" and "Second" cities of each country in the United Kingdom. But time will tell!

Scimitar54 wrote:When I asked if there were any takers for Edinburgh, Swansea & Londonderry for the last three, The theme behind the names used so far seemed likely be extrapolated for Scotland, Wales and NI. Namely the "First" and "Second" cities of each country in the United Kingdom. But time will tell!

Do you understand the political problem of Derry / Londonderry? Its quite important.

matt00773 wrote: the political problem of Derry / Londonderry?

London was a clever, pre-emptive strike for that, too.

Is it customary to name a ship that hasn't been ordered yet? Or did I miss the 2nd batch order?

Probably not, but the admiralty may be trying to protect the order a bit, makes it more difficult for politicians to cancel a ship named after London than an unnamed ship.

Deleted the off-topic "nationality" posts. Discuss that in another thread by all means, but this thread is for Type 26 news and related discussion.

Not good.....

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/type-26 ... r-objects/

Standard practice these days. As long as the Canadian MOD have their paper work in order nothing will change.

Pongoglo wrote:Not good.....

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/type-26 ... r-objects/

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/type-26 ... r-objects/

Don't know the detail of the Canadian Judicial Review process but am fairly familiar with them in the UK - and I suspect they are similar enough in principal.

Firstly there is a world of difference between requesting a judicial review and getting one.

And the primary consideration will be about the lawfulness of the process. Judges will not be asked to determine whether Ship A was a better match to the criteria than Ship B - they are judges after all. They will consider whether the decision taken by the body under review was one which it was legally permitted to take in the way that it did.

Just sounds like petty tactics from a salty competitor to me.

Another Type 26 named, with Type 42 and Town Class Cruiser heritage.



Leaves no. 5 and 7 to be named...

Still hoping for HMS Watford... If anyone's seen Brasseye.

Jensy

The guy's on a roll:



Jensy

they seem to be in a hurry to name them all now maybe to make it harder to cancel them

Tempest414 wrote:they seem to be in a hurry to name them all now maybe to make it harder to cancel them

Almost undoubtedly.

So seven of the eight T26 have already been named. That happened quite quickly! My bets on the final name is Edinburgh but it seems the south west and north west england has been left out. Manchester / Liverpool / Bristol / Exeter ?
It’s a shame that we aren’t getting the full 13 for a better geographical spread.
Perhaps the balance can be addressed with Town names for T31e.

1. HMS Glasgow
2. HMS Cardiff
3. HMS Belfast
4. HMS Birmingham
5. HMS Sheffield
6. HMS Newcastle
7. HMS ?
8. HMS London

Lucky 7?

I think it will be hms manchester

HMS Coventry

HMS Liverpool for me.

Liverpool's role in the Battle of the Atlantic was huge, even though the cruiser with the same name didn't have a service life long enough to gain an Atlantic battle honor.

Anything except S**th*mpt*n.