| Last Hussar | 15 May 2009 3:38 p.m. PST |
Ship names are inspired by the martial (Battle Axe)
or a mood of defiance (Unbroken, Dreadnaught)
or lofty ideal (Enterprise)
Sometimes even heroic legend (Bellephon) You wouldn't want to captain the Fruit-knife, Unstable, Indolent or Don Quixote though. |
| Covert Walrus | 15 May 2009 3:46 p.m. PST |
I would be proud, as would David Drake, to serve aboard an SDN named The Night Blooming Cereus:) |
peterx  | 15 May 2009 3:52 p.m. PST |
The proud ship Ganglia, Minty Fresh Gargle (a corporate ship), The Lazy Sod, The Stupid Oaf, The Slightly Stinky Sneaker, The To Be or Not To Be (That Is the Question), The Greasy Frying Pan, The Burp, The Large Clump of Something that I Can't Quite Identify, The Not So Fresh Feeling, The Crazy Lunatic Shouting Man, The Messy Room, The Garbage Truck, and many others in the huge fleet too numerous and silly to mention. |
| Plynkes | 15 May 2009 3:57 p.m. PST |
Personally I like the names of the RN Flower Class Corvettes. None of that boastfulness of other, supposedly mightier vessels. That always smacked of whistling in the dark to me anyway. These names say, "we're so not scared of your stupid U-Boats that we're gonna give all our ships really gay names, and not give a  , that's how hard we are." HMS Pink
HMS Meadowsweet
HMS Gladiolus Yes, Mr. U-Bootwaffe-going to starve us into surrender with your fleet of big metal penises-man , think on this as you drift forever down into the mansions of Poseidon's hoary deeps… you were sunk by HMS Buttercup. |
| quidveritas | 15 May 2009 4:01 p.m. PST |
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| Space Monkey | 15 May 2009 4:02 p.m. PST |
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 Parzival | 15 May 2009 4:07 p.m. PST |
In the G.O.B.S.! rules I give the following ship names in examples: Screaming Meanie
Slugembois
Biggunsblazen
Huyulukinat
Battleship Cardigan
Uphsidazi
Bihgmahma
Ruhnlykachikin
Wackumbois
Plezdoneetme Which should tell you how much of a serious game G.O.B.S.! is.  |
| doug redshirt | 15 May 2009 4:15 p.m. PST |
The first thing that came to mind was what the heck to call the fleet laundry ship? Washerwoman? Washerman? Spin? Wash Cycle? Fluff? Dry? Rinse? Scrubber? |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 15 May 2009 4:22 p.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 15 May 2009 4:29 p.m. PST |
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| Dances With Words | 15 May 2009 4:35 p.m. PST |
Target? Red-shirt special? Bulls-Eye? Fireworks? We Almost Made It? Spaaaaaaaaccccce TOAST? |
| Mikhail Lerementov | 15 May 2009 4:40 p.m. PST |
USS Constipation
HMS Indescribable
HMS Inconceivable.
HMS Incontinent
HMS Impotent
HMS Imperiled
HMS Hemorrhoid CVN Glowworm DD Tee CA Board SSN Milquetoast |
| Last Hussar | 15 May 2009 4:48 p.m. PST |
Mikhail- did you serve aboard the FF Sake, by any chance? |
| Coelacanth1938 | 15 May 2009 4:51 p.m. PST |
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| Garand | 15 May 2009 5:12 p.m. PST |
Somehow the USS Gigglestein just doesn't evoke fear… Damon. |
| Sgt McWarMonkey | 15 May 2009 5:13 p.m. PST |
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| CLDecker | 15 May 2009 5:14 p.m. PST |
USS Insertitall
USS Bloewenme
USS Always Will Retreat
USS Dontgivaphuc
USS Donald Duck
USS Leaking Lena (this baby really exists)
USS Unscrupulous
USS Hiram T. Toadwater
USS Arthur W. Ratfart
USS Stinkwhistle A few are parodies of warship names we used way back when |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 15 May 2009 5:17 p.m. PST |
Somehow the USS Gigglestein just doesn't evoke fear… You never met Captain Gigglestein's wife. |
| dmclellan | 15 May 2009 5:21 p.m. PST |
Continuing that long line of HMS I class Battlecruisers HMS Insufferable |
| Mutant Q | 15 May 2009 5:21 p.m. PST |
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| Sgt McWarMonkey | 15 May 2009 5:28 p.m. PST |
USS Mulch
it's Motto "We have you covered" I know "oh so lame" |
| Brent27511 | 15 May 2009 5:36 p.m. PST |
USS Doomed
USS Glass Jaw
USS Hole in One
USS Not an explosives carrier
USS The couldn't hit an elephant at this range…. |
| Soldat | 15 May 2009 5:42 p.m. PST |
USS Target
USS Explosion
USS What's This Button For?
USS White Flag |
| Mikhail Lerementov | 15 May 2009 5:44 p.m. PST |
HMS Unreliable
HMS Unctuous
HMS Contaminated
HMS Indeterminate (Started life as a 74 but was cut down to make a large frigate)
Fleet Repair Ship Fatigued
HMS Unsupported SSN Plausible Deniability
SSN Roller Blade (Update of Skate) |
 John the OFM | 15 May 2009 6:17 p.m. PST |
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| The G Dog | 15 May 2009 6:37 p.m. PST |
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| Last Hussar | 15 May 2009 6:38 p.m. PST |
HMS Decoy
HMS Munchkin ("Sorry Admiral, all the Classical ones are gone")
USS Garfield ("Its a President, right?")
USS Preciousssss |
| Cpt Arexu | 15 May 2009 6:43 p.m. PST |
Personally, I like Iain Banks 'Culture' novels, where the ships pick their own names: link |
| Sgt McWarMonkey | 15 May 2009 6:47 p.m. PST |
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| Sgt McWarMonkey | 15 May 2009 6:49 p.m. PST |
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| OldGrenadier | 15 May 2009 6:56 p.m. PST |
In the grand tradition of the USN naming smaller ships after Indian tribes, the buoy tender USS Heh-kow-ee. Some of you older folk may actually get the reference :) |
 Virtualscratchbuilder | 15 May 2009 7:11 p.m. PST |
In my Star Trek TNG world there is the "Doomed Admiral" class of frigates: USS Nishimura
USS Craddock
USS Scott
USS De Brueys
USS Nabokov
USS Ting
USS Goto
USS Holland
USS Shovell
USS Vitgeft
USS Queiret
USS Wilcox |
| peterx | 15 May 2009 7:19 p.m. PST |
How about some Brit ships named after Python creations:
HMS Mrs. Non-gorilla
HMS Pointed Stick
HMS Piranha Brothers
HMS Bigus Dickus
HMS Minister of Silly Walks
HMS Butch Penguin
HMS Nudge Nudge
HMS Lumberjack |
| BigJoeDuke | 15 May 2009 7:23 p.m. PST |
USS Suicidal Tendencies
USS Brown Pants
USS Righteous Indignation
USS Imminent Domain
USS Manifest Destiny
USS Obomba
USS Bush (hehe, I said bush…)
ARM H1N1 |
| Sgt McWarMonkey | 15 May 2009 7:39 p.m. PST |
USS Trouser Chili
Water treatment ship USS Hokey Pokey "You put it in, we pull it out"
USS Yellow Snow |
| flooglestreet | 15 May 2009 7:59 p.m. PST |
HMS Abysmal
IJN Sockitumi
USS Gerbil
USS Sincus |
| jimborex | 15 May 2009 8:47 p.m. PST |
Inflammable seems a poor choice for a wooden ship of the line. |
| Tom Bryant | 15 May 2009 9:22 p.m. PST |
I pulled out my copy of Janes Figting Ships of WWII for some Royal Navy inspiration. Here are a few good ones from real life! ALGERINE CLASS MINESWEEPERS: HMS Acute
HMS Cheerful
HMS Pickle (sure to get you out of one)
HMS Pincher
HMS Plucky (always in the fight)
HMS Spanker (Oh Sailor!) HMS Fierce
HMS Welcome HMS Pyrrhus HMS Coquette
HMS Truelove
HMS Welfare BUSTLER CLASS FLEET TUGS: HMS Bustler
HMS Growler
HMS Reward
HMS Turmoil ASSURANCE CLASS FLEET TUGS: HMS Antic
HMS Dexterous
HMS Charon (Honestly now, would you really want your ship towed by the ferryman to Hades?) HMS Frisky
HMS Jaunty (Always a happy crew no matter how bad the situation.) HMS Prudent
HMS Saucy (The little wench!) The worst part about it is that they were real names. |
| Sgt McWarMonkey | 15 May 2009 9:23 p.m. PST |
USS Kaboom
USS Abbynormey
hospital ship USS Peel N Stick |
| Roll Again | 15 May 2009 9:59 p.m. PST |
I had a ship I made up for Star Fleet Battles called the
USS Justine Bateman. I figured so far into the future, that some historian got their facts mixed up. |
| mweaver | 15 May 2009 10:17 p.m. PST |
Rothgar's Theory of names: Appease the dragons, make love to the ships, insult dead worlds, and compliment live ones. Grainger, in Brian Stableford's "The Halcyon Drift" (part of a conversation about why no one should have been surprised that a luxury liner starship named "The Lost Star" disappeared on her maiden voyage…). |
| The Outlander | 15 May 2009 10:30 p.m. PST |
K u. K Unterhose
HMS Appeasement
USS Cindy Sheehan |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 15 May 2009 10:41 p.m. PST |
The HMS Not AT This Battle.
The HMS Ann Elk.
The HMS Cowardly Poltroon. |
| Mapleleaf | 15 May 2009 10:55 p.m. PST |
HMS Will In every movie someone always yells "Fire at Will" |
| Toaster | 16 May 2009 1:26 a.m. PST |
Red Chicken Rising has some wonderful ship names, personal favorite is the cat races "Hiss at the Dog" class battlecruiser. Robert |
 Doms Decals  | 16 May 2009 1:27 a.m. PST |
I'm with Alex – some of the ship names in Banks' novels are just great. (Too many favourites to list, but honourable mention goes to "I Said I've Got a Big Stick" which is of course always printed in tiny lettering….) For real life ones, I've got my fingers crossed that we go from 6 Daring class destroyers to 8, as based on the historical names of D Classes, the next two should be Her Majesty's Ships Decoy and Dainty…. |
| NoLongerAMember | 16 May 2009 1:54 a.m. PST |
Full list of Banks ships names here: nift.firedrake.org/The_Fleet.htm On flower class corvettes, it was always said in Liverpool that HMS Pansy had the roughest, toughest crew in the Navy… |
| Mike G | 16 May 2009 2:50 a.m. PST |
HMS INSIPID
HMS SPHINCTER |
| The Black Tower | 16 May 2009 3:43 a.m. PST |
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| vaughan | 16 May 2009 4:29 a.m. PST |
"HMS TROUTBRIDGE" I remember her, "left hand down a bit" |
