Ships

[oneiriad]

Out of all the names for the Danish privateer ships and boats during the Napoleonic Wars, why the hell would anybody call their boat Lord Nelson. I can understand every other name I've encountered - patriotic ones, names from Norse, Roman and Christian myth, towns, famous individuals, girl names, several indicating the fact that people had hope and wanted revenge, even a few silly ones (how would you like a boat called Desværre (English: Unfortunately)?

But why, oh why, would any of them name one after Nelson?!

I've got ships on the brain as of late, it seems - last night I had a dream where the Dauntless was Naglfar - or perhaps Naglfar was the Dauntless, I'm not sure. I must have been reading too much Norse mythology as of late...

Comments

[elessil.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't Naglfar rather fit the Pearl?

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but that's dream logic for you...

[jedipirate.livejournal.com]

lol, pretty funny. Maybe Nelson had a fangirlboy among the Danish.

And maybe that one guy was *unfortunately* stuck with a ship he didn't really like.