[Bears Armed]

I personally don't think 'Loyal Swan' sounds right. The idea behind the name seems sound to me, though. How about the "Fidelity Swan"?

Noted regarding the 'Snowfall Swan' and the 'Bugler Swan'. The word 'bugler' bring up some memories for me- I once created the character of an eager young naval officer named Nelson Bugler, based upon Horatio Hornblower.

'Loyalty', 'Fidelity', I suspect that they both translate identically into Ursine anyhows...
Okay, you call the ones in your nation 'Fidelity Swan' (or 'Cygne de Fidelite', or whatever), but the English name for the ones in Bears Armed will probably be 'Loyal Swan'. No reason why everybody IC has to agree on the matter, is there?

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Re Hornblower: Have you read any of the 'Honor Harrington' series, by David Weber?
They're sort of Hornblower-inspired SF, with space navies whose ships [for technical reasons] have most of their armament arranged in broadsides and that therefore (because battles in space are fought on a 3-D basis, rather than a 2-D one like sea battles in Hornblower's time) organise into a "wall of battle".