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The Royal Navy had awesome names for vessels during 'the age of sail'. Was it deliberate policy to pick 'cool' names, or do they just look cool in hindsight? Is there any evidence/minutes of deliberations about picking one name over another because it was cool?

by /u/dog_solitude in /r/AskHistorians

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