USS Bon Homme Richard

Here’s a collection of pics of the ships with this name (Ok so I have nothing better to do, big deal) 😀

Bon Homme can be translated as Good Man or Pretty Man.

… in the Lampegat maybe :diablo:

Was’nt the nickname for Bon Homme Richard, “Bonnie Dick”??

Bon homme means good man
Bonhomme means something else entirely…
“Un bonhomme” means something like “a dude” or “a guy”

bon homme can’t be translated as a pretty man though

That said I don’t know if the meaning was the same when the ship was named. Nor if it’s a contraction for “bon homme”… but, I think it doesn’t mean a good man, because in french the adjective is usually placed after the noun. So it would be “un homme bon”

Nic

I found the information on another web site, doing a on-line dictionary check it translates as

bon (good) homme (man) Richard

which I would say is what John Paul Jones intended (He was also her first Captian under that name).

Bon Homme can be translated as Good Man or Pretty Man.

Hi Big vern

Thanks for clearing that out…i do have a another question. My french skills ain´t the best in the world, but i think Bon Homme mean Good man. Bon been Good…(as in Bonjour = Good day).
Anyway..thank you for taking your time to fill me in !

Kind regards

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For a long time i have wondered about the name: USS Bon Homme Richard. Does anybody know how they came up with that name ?
I have been interested in Amerian naval aviation for a longtime, but havn´t really payed much attention to the aircraft carriers…but i have always been puzzled by that name. The same thing goes fro USS Shangri-la ( i do know about the story of the Valley Shangri-la, but why would anybody name a aircaft carrier after a fictoinal vally where you don´t grow old ?)

Hope somebody can help me

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Hi profile drawer

Bonhomme Richard

The first USS Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Durae, was a frigate in the Continental Navy. She was one of the first ships in the US Navy.

She was originally an East Indiaman, a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, for service between France and the Orient. She was placed at the disposal of John Paul Jones on February 4, 1779, by King Louis the Beloved as a result of a loan to the United States by French shipping magnate, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray. Jones renamed her Bonhomme Richard, the French language equivalent of “Poor Richard,” in honor of Benjamin Franklin’s almanac called Poor Richard’s Almanac.

Shangri-la

According to the US president FD Roosevelt in a press release after the event, Shangri-la was name of the secret base in China where a very well known attack on Japan was launched from in early 1942. as we all known now, Shangri-la was in fact the USS Hornet. The USS Shangri-la was named to honour the president’s statement.