Re: USS Ponce
"Or HMS *******.
I couldn't actually write the word, but it's in countless British films pre-1980."
Would that be HMS Poofter?
She went down on all hands off the coast of Lesbos. It was a hell of a mess and took the crew of HMS Venus weeks to clear it all up and their poor cabin boy suffered from a severe rectal pane <sic> ever after.