If I were naming a ship, I would name it the HMS Completely Vulnerable.
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UNSINKABLE!
- Quote about ship that sank
guess i'll just name my ship vincible then. saves me the embarrassment if it explodes. and if it doesn't, hey, i'm not complaining. win-win
If the ship is called Invincible
then why can I see it?
Most people (I bet), when they read the word Jutland:

See also the HMS Dreadnaught. A ship named "fear nothing" who spent most of her career relegated to coastal defence because she was outdated and would've been an easy target.
Dreadnought's one score was ramming and sinking a U-boat. It gets more interesting because that U-boat was commanded by Otto Weddingen, who had previously commanded a really obsolete old U-boat named "U-9" when she sank three armored cruisers in one attack while submerged, a feat that shocked everyone into realizing the actual threat posed by submarines.
HMS Invincible: gets sunk
HMS Lame Dog: survives 18 torpedo strikes, 3 bombings, 2 fires, and an iceberg
Next ship: Invincible 2
Our enemies will tremble.
I'm kind of lost. Isn't this meme for causing your own demise and blaming others?
See, the United States named our battleships after things like North Carolina and New Jersey, and they're currently on display in North Carolina and New Jersey.


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