Ship name anachronisms

[napoleon526]

One thing i've noticed about building ships is that the names automatically given to your ships often don't correspond to what is going on in the game. For example, even as a monarchy as France, you build ships that were obviously named after the Revolution, such as "Droits de l'Homme" (Rights of Man), "Brutus," and "Tyrannicide." Obviously ships with such names are not welcome in His Majesty's fleet.

Even funnier is what I noticed when I captured a group of Prussian ships. One was named "Hipper", apparently named after the German admiral who fought at the battle of Jutland in 1916! A heavy cruiser named after Hipper fought in WWII. Another was named "Coronel," which was a German Naval victory over the British in WWI off the coast of South America. So I guess some Prussian admiral didn't have any good names to give ships, so he peered into the future to come up with some!

[NimitsTexan]

You will see American ships with names such as "Surprise" and "Diomede."

[Sheogorath]

There are a few Russian ships named after battles in the Great Northern War that haven't happened yet :P
"Poltava" for instance.