Talk:HMS Prince of Wales (R09)

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 * HMS Prince of Wales ships crest.JPG

August 2022 malfunction
The malfunction of the starboard propeller is a notable event and is supported by widespread notable references. It belongs in the operational history section. Coldupnorth (talk) 19:57, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies, have seen it is duplicated. Will add those references to existing text. Coldupnorth (talk) 19:59, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Namesake
When the ship was commissioned in 2019, the Prince of Wales was Charles, but now it is William. Is the ship named for a specific person, like her sister ship, or is it named for the title, or is it named for the several men who have held the title? rogerd (talk) 02:13, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Good question... - w o lf  06:24, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No it is named after the title, not the person holding that title. This is different to HMS Queen Elizabeth - which is clearly named after a person and not a title; just not the recent Queen Elizabeth.  It is named after Elizabeth I. Mark83 (talk) 09:21, 8 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I thought that might be the case. I know that when the previous ship of the same name, HMS Prince of Wales (53) was launched in 1937, the title was vacant, and the previous holder was the then-abdicated King, so the RN was likely in no mood to name a ship for that individual.  Of course, I am an American who has British ancestors (my mother was born in Kent), so I can't speak for the RN or the British people. --rogerd (talk) 02:49, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, you're considered "British by descent"... so there's that. - w o lf  04:01, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Royal Navy ships bearing the names of previous ships are named after those previous ships, not after any original namesake. Although the carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales were obviously named with a nod to Elizabeth II and Charles, Prince of Wales, they are actually named after the Great War battleship Queen Elizabeth (herself named for Elizabeth I) and the Second World War battleship Prince of Wales. Khamba Tendal (talk) 20:06, 9 July 2023 (UTC)