[ Post a Response | The SteelNavy.Com Message Board ]
Posted by tomcervo on January 8, 2021, 16:40:04, in reply to "..sleeping with the fishes."
It was initially planned to name the submarine Casablanca. Navy Minister François Piétri, who was Corsican, instead pressed for a navy vessel to be named in honour of Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, a naval officer from Corsica who had served in the French Revolutionary Wars. The Casablanca was therefore renamed Casabianca prior to being launched.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Casabianca_(1935)
Responses