Looking for a list of "nicknames" for British ships

Dear shipmates,

I remember in a thread somewhere here in the forum a list of "nicknames" British saylors used for their ships. The only one I still have in mind is the famous "Billy Ruffian" for the HMS Bellerophon. But I think there was a list with round about a dozend of those nicknames.
I executed some searches via the forum search function without success.
Can somebody help me?

Hi Achim.

there was a short discussion here at page two:
https://sailsofglory.org/showthread....-Ortagal/page2


On wikipedia i found "List of warships by nickname"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ps_by_nickname

And here:
http://zuzuray.com/nicknames2.html

Thanks for that Dobbs.
It is a pity that most of the ships mentioned are post 1850 but you can find a few for our era if you look hard enough.

Rob.

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Originally Posted by lankin

Hi Achim.

there was a short discussion here at page two:
https://sailsofglory.org/showthread....-Ortagal/page2

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Hi Lankin,
thank you - This was the list I was looking for :thanks:.

And also thank you for providing the additional links - normally I look up all my stuff on the internet, but for some reason I just forgot to ask wikipedia before starting this thread :wink:.

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Originally Posted by Bligh

Thanks for that Dobbs.
It is a pity that most of the ships mentioned are post 1850 but you can find a few for our era if you look hard enough.

Rob.

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I deny all credit and draw attention to Iankin. :happy: