Naming
The Pohjanmaa was christened on 8 June 1979 by Aili Haapkylä. The name comes from the old Swedish pojama galleys built in the 1770s — see "Pohjanmaa" for other uses of the name.
The vessel has been nicknamed Puuhamaa by the Finnish Navy conscripts after the Finnish amusement park.
Read more about this topic: Finnish Minelayer Pohjanmaa
Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)