World-building exercises 2

[alliancesjr]

All right. Can anyone out there describe to me (or point me in the right direction of) various military and civilian naming conventions for boats and ships? I'm not looking for names, I'm looking for how names are normally chosen.

In specific, I'm looking for naming conventions of the following classes of vessels:

Large Military Combat Ships
Smaller Military Combat Ships
Military Transport Ships - People
Military Transport Ships - Materiel

Private Business Transport Ships, Large (Container Vessel)
Private Business Transport Ships, Small

Privately Owned Large Transport Ships

Fishing Vessels (of various sizes)

If anyone knows off the top of their heads, or if they can point me to sources of information I could use, that would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if there's a class of ship I've missed, let me know.


EDIT: I'm looking for conventions within the United States, as well as other countries' or cultures' naming conventions.

Comments

[gendou.livejournal.com]

That's rather broad. I'll try to restrict my comments to the modern U.S. Navy, as my familiarity with other militaries is limited, and civilian naming standards vary from owner to owner.

Ballistic missile submarines are named after states, nuclear balistic missile subs are named after famous politicians, and attack subs are named after cities.
Aircraft carriers are named after people of military significance, including presidents.
Standard cruisers are named after famous battles, nuclear cruisers after states.
Frigates and destroyers are named after famous naval personages.

I think that covers it. Of course, these are only the modern standards - the standards in WWI and WWII were quite different.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

It's an excellent starting point. Thank you.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

Holy crap.

Calmer linked me to this site (http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/shipyard/naming.html), which is absolutely perfect.