Hi Shaun,for strange names look up motor yachts , and strange and sometimes laughable names are all the rage.

Thanks Jens. I agree with you Emmanuel on the fact that shipping companies can choose strange names. For example, Happy cruise's Happy Dolphin sounds more a harbour tour boat than a 23,000gt cruise ship!!!
Regards.

Hi Emmanuel, I don't know for sure, but checking a list of Hyundai-built ships I only found this quartet.

Hi Jens,are there more than these 3 that you mentioned?

Hi Shaun, i know three sisters of Butterfly:
Pelleas (ex-CMA CGM Pelleas), IMO 9365788
CMA CGM Orfeo, IMO 9364992
CMA CGM Ivanhoe, IMO 9365805

Cheers,
Jens

Well Shaun ,opinions differ.Sometimes you find very small vessel with titanic names, but that is the choice of the owners, or even names which in some languages is an offensive word but in the owners language it is just another word.Regards friend.

I think that this would still not be appropriate. An opera does not scream power and size. Even if it does signify that she is majestic. She really does not deserve this name. She is quite good looking without a twin island superstructure so can anyone give me the names of more ships of this class?

Thanks Doc,I would rather have left her with her original name.It is much more appropriate to have a ship of her majestic size named after a grand opera than a flimsy though colourful insect.

Regarding the name, she was not named after an insect at all, but was one of a series of sisters named, whilst on charter to CMA CGM, after operas (similar to Wallenius)...in this case Madame Butterfly, but for some reason CMA CGM dropped the Madame and simply left the Butterfly. Now, off charter, the CMA CGM has also been dropped.

Allan

Now that's the way to name ships, towns, countries etc. and not flimsy insects beautiful as they may be.

Usually container ships of this size are named after towns, countries or people. For example, APL Salalah, Maersk McKinney Moller. COSCO France.

In my opinion BUMBLEBEE isn't an apt name for such a large ship,nor is BUTTERFLY. These names are more apt for some small launch or sailing yacht.Thank you Shaun for the greetings from the UK, may I reciprocate these wishes from Malta.

'Bumblebee' would be better, eh?

I agree, not a very fitting name.
Greetings to Malta from the United Kingdom.