>I wouldn't have
>thought of conflating the RE-class with a real-world ship, the
>Reckless, though.

N.B. As far as I am aware, there is/was no real-life Royal Navy ship named Reckless, although it does seem like a very RN sort of name. They did have a number of ships named HMS Desperate (in the sense of reckless abandon), though.

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