The same custom is often followed in fiction: the Constitution-class cruiser is the basis for the Enterprise of Star Trek (although in Star Trek the term pathfinder is also occasionally used in lieu of lead ship) and the Imperial-class Star Destroyer appears in Star Wars.
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The ships are named after famous Dutch naval officers, the lead ship being named after Karel Doorman.
The lead ship, Admiral Gorshkov (actual name Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov), was laid down on 1 February 2006 in Severnaya Verf Shipyard at St. Petersburg.
INS Arihant, the lead ship of India's Arihant class of nuclear-powered submarines
The lead ship was named after the former Prime Minister and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.
Annibal (1779-1794), a 74 gun ship of the line, lead ship of Annibal class
But after the Islamic Revolution the class was renamed to Alvand class, after the Alvand mountain-chain and so this ship, being the lead ship was renamed Alvand.
In 1968, Leninskaya Kuznitsa shipyard in Kiev launched Zhelezny Potok, the lead ship of what became one of the most numerous ship classes in the former Soviet Union and independent Ukraine.
The engines of the P400 have been a constant source of technical problems since the maiden journey of the lead ship Audacieuse to Dakar.
Herman Melville named his lead ship in his novel Moby-Dick as the Pequod.
The class, as well as the lead ship, were named for King Alfonso XIII's English queen consort.
The class is named after its lead ship, which in turn is named after Lt Nikolaos Roussen, a World War II submarines officer who was killed in the suppression of the Navy mutiny in April 1944.
However, by May 1982, the project was put under Meyer's control in PMS 400, with a lead ship awarded 1985 to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.