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HMM British Namelist (NSC Compatible)

No matter if you wanna write alternate history, where the British Empire never collapsed or where it will rise after Brexit, for you Britophilics, here is my namelist mod, His/Her Majesty's Most British Namelist, this time NSC compatible from start. However, the list works fine without NSC in Vanilla.

The NSC Mod can be found here for those interested: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683230077

As far as I could observe, the Royal Navy never had a written naming convention like the US Navy, so they've named their ships from class to class, not from ship type to ship type.

This namelist does not include names of Ships from other Common Wealth Navies like the Royal Canadian Navy or the Royal Australian Navy, so the list is as British as possible, otherwise there would be a bunch of Canadian and Australian Cities, Rivers and so and from also some other Commonwealth Navies on in the list.
However, Ships that were part of the Royal Navy carrying names from, looking from now, former Colonies (e.g. Empress of India, Dublin) are in this list as also ships with names of whole Colonies like e.g. HMS Australia, so the Commonwealth is somehow represented.

Names range, by timeperiod, from the late 19th century up to the modern age.

Corvettes:

Named after several different smaller Royal Navy ships from WWI, WWII and modern era like Corvettes, Destroyers
and so on.

Destroyers:

Share their names with the Corvettes with the small addition of names of Destroyer Leaders from WWI and WWII.
Since Destroyer Leaders where meant to lead fleets of smaller ships and destroyers, I think, this fits, since in early game destroyers basically can lead corvette fleets.

Cruisers:

They take their names obiously from RN cruisers, WWI era carriers and WWII era escort and light carriers. Really not that much to write, since the RN had no written naming conditions aka. chaos.
They also got some names from Post-WWII Attack Submarines.

Battleships:

Take their names from Pre-Dreadnoughts, Dreadnoughts, Battleships, Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy as well as Aircraft Carriers, since they also serve the aircraft carrier role in vanilla.
Exception: There literally was a Dreadnought called "Colossus". I reserved that name for the Colossus-Ship, since it fits, so it won't appear in the Battleship-Name List.
They also got some names from Post-WWII Strategic Submarines.

Titans & Colossus:

Took some of the more "glorious" or "monarchic" sounding names from Battleships/Dreadnoughts and used them for this ship class.

Science Ships:

Get their names from British explorers (e.g. Cook) and some WWI Scout Cruisers, that carried their name and navigational stars, that probably aided these explorers back then like Sirius, Polaris and such.


Colony Ships:

They got names associated with the British Empire.

Sponsored Colony Ships:

If you ever use them (since you'd have to play a MegaCorp then, but it's your deal), you'll get them with names of British Companies.

Construction Ships:

Their names are derived from British industrial companies or famous historical engineers.

Military Platforms:

Named after British defense manufacturers coupled with a fictional product/class-name.

Ion Cannon:

Gave names that seem appropriate for a canon, that can two- or even one-shot most ships.

NSC-Ships:
Strike cruisers:

Share their names with Cruisers, nothing special.

Battlecruisers:

Got their names from Battlecruisers.

Escort Carriers & Light Carriers:

Got their names from WWI aircraft carriers/tenders.
In WWII the Royal Navy had distinct Escort Carriers and distinct Light Carriers, so Escort Carriers will get the Names of their WWII cousins and the same applies to the Light Carriers respectively.

Carriers:

Got their names from aircraft carriers from the WWII era and onwards.

Dreadnoughts & Super-Dreadnoughts:

They get their names from Pre-WWI and WWI-era Pre-Dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts.
Since the historical ship types were basically one ship class following the other, surpassing the limits of imagination of the generation of Admirals before, it would've felt unfitting, to give Dreadnoughts e.g. the Name "Britannia" but not Super-Dreadnoughts, so they share their names.
Exception: There literally was a Dreadnought called "Colossus". I reserved that name for the Colossus-Ship, since it fits, so it won't appear in the Battleship-Name List.

Flagships:

Took some of the more "glorious" or "monarchic" sounding names from Battleships/Dreadnoughts and used them for this ship class.

Science- & Exploration Cruisers:

Share their names with Science Ships, added by some names, historical Scout Cruisers of the WWI Era had, that sound more like combat and thus a bit unfitting for normal, civilian science ships.

Construction cruisers:

Share their names with Construction Ships.

The military stations use the same names regardless of size.
The Headquarters is just called "Admiralty".
The X1-Cannon shares it's possible names with the Ion Cannons.

Fleets:

This time a mix, there are 2 historical names, "Grand Fleet" and "Home Fleet" and afterwards the Game will pick randomly names called "Force A" down the alphabet to "Force Z".
Once all these names are used up, the game will pick names with ordinal numbering, starting with "1st Fleet".