Starship Names

[Sturn]

Just for humor sake....Believe it or not, some 3 decades ago back in early college, some players of mine named their ship the, "Poop Nut".

Needless to say, that group wasn't made of serious role-players. It was one of those "chips and beer" groups.

 

[Cyphr]

Several that I have named over the years


Nugget Courier - an old scout/courier/seeker with cutting edge electronics and limited AI.

Reluctant - sister ship of the Defiant of STS9 fame

Bloody Blade of Justice - a Rapid Response Cruiser with larger Marine Contingent.

The following are names of three city-ships (about the size of a super star destroyer) in an going game with some friends.

SpaceDock (Yeah original)

Machu Pichu

Masada

 

[AndrewW]

One can not forget the "Enterprise". Which we all know as an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. For some reason I think that might be a good name for a ship. Actually they should make a show about a crew of a ship named "Enterprise". :lol:

Wait a minute, wasn't that a sailing ship? Didn't know any of those where aircraft carriers...

 

[Imperator58]

From various sources:

Wastrel
Petrel
Osprey
Stormhawk
Sea Witch

 

[Jame Rowe]

Yachts: Show-Off Witch
Pretty Boy (note well that this ship is owned by a woman)
Lovely Girl (note that it has the same meaning as Pretty Boy, and indeed is owned by a man)

Liner: Wandering Nomad

Freighters: Emerald Star
Argent Mistress
Filthy Lucre

 

[hdan]

Corsair: Black Vengeance

 

[AKAramis]

Soutships, IISS: Amy, Nutbuster, troublesome hound, Serpent, Winged Mother, Asp, Asp of Many Colors

Merchants: Money Pit, Century Chicken, Arden Pride.

Special Vessels: Emperor's Amusement, Family Hope, Leaping Groat (Gazelle CE)

 

[GJD]

ISS Ruby Murray (cockney rhyming slang for curry - Bombay Bicycle clubs finest Chicken Shaslic contributed to this instant decision)

ISS Space Moth - We had a big starmap laid out on the table as "flavour", and were trying to decide (i.e arguing) on a name for our shiny new privateer. A moth was battering itself into a coma against the lightbulb over our heads, and eventually spiralled down onto the starmap and flopped about between the stars - hence space moth.

G.

 

[saundby]

Merchants:
Sanctimonious Smiles
Sour Persimmon
Lucky Enough
Almost a Circle ("trying to make ends meet")
Taiga Dalyeseverniya
Three Legged Dog
Tote Bag
Busted Wagon Wheel
Old Grey Mare
Hangar Princess
Two Guys and a Spaceship

Warships:
Friction Welder
Fractional Distillate (together as "Fric and Frac")
Anode
Scheinwerfer
Reflector
Mary Havoc

Intel Ships:
Arc Trace
Fusible Link
Dial Tone
Erewhon

High Speed Transports:
Slick
Strela
Outtatime
C Stoff
Already Gone

 

[Tipsy]

When my party finally named their Far Trader they went with "The Pleasant Voyage."

"Space Cancer" and "Not for Scrap" were close seconds though.

 

[xenophage]

I'm reminded of the ship names from the Cultur ebooks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_(The_Culture)

My favourite being "Frank Exchange of Views"

 

[kristof65]

The only name that stands out from my previous campaigns was named by a player of mine, for his RPG character, and later the fleet commander in a Trillion Credit Squadron campaign. This was his primary ship design for his TCS fleet:

Neverastria

I liked the name, the concept and the ship plans so much that I eventually redrew the plans to get rid of the few things that bugged me, and introduced the ship as a small Imperial Navy capital ship in my later Traveller campaigns - the 30,000 dton Neverastria III class cruiser.

 

[thepugilist]

Based on real British Ships:
Warspite
Wolfhound
Sultan
Caesar
Iron Duke
Spiteful
Vampire

Fictional British Ships (Bonus Old School Military Novel Points):
Hotspur
Atropos
Lydia
Sutherland

From the Game Freespace:
Galatea
Lucifer

Good Battleship Names:
Khan
Kaiser
Leviathan
Titan
Hecatoncheire
Ymir
Jotun
Thor
Aries
Mars
Athena

Smaller Ship Names:
Dart
Sprite
Sparrow
Mosquito

For a Spy/Special Ops Ship (Bonus Points for Getting References):
(Sir Francis) Wolsingham
Black Dragon
Black Chamber
Oprichnik
(Richard) Helms
Wild Bill (no not the cowboy; related to the next one)
(William J.) Donovan

For Ships with Rotten Luck:
Demeter
Angel's Luck
Flying Dutchman
Erebus
Terror

During the French Indochina War firebases were named after the mistresses of officers, so an official ship named after the Emperor's "Special Lady" would not only be awesome but also would piss off his wife and "legitimate" kids. I recommend "Marguerite".

 

[cbrunish]

One can not forget the "Enterprise". Which we all know as an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. For some reason I think that might be a good name for a ship. Actually they should make a show about a crew of a ship named "Enterprise". :lol:

Wait a minute, wasn't that a sailing ship? Didn't know any of those where aircraft carriers...

:lol: Touche!!!!!!

 

[Gee4orce]

"V" is a great letter for warship names:

Victorious
Vengeance
Vigilance
Venom
Voracity
Vulpine
Velocity
Venture
Vector
Vampire
Valiant
Valediction
Valhalla
Valkyrie
Valourous
Vambrace
Vibrant
Vicarious
Viscious
Victimiser
Viking
Void-(add any noun here and it sounds good)


etc, etc, etc. What a great letter !


Unfortunately, my players once called a ship "The Monkey's Scrotum"

 

[Klaus Kipling]

Lewis Carol is a good source:

The Jabberwock
Bandersnatch
Cheshire Cat
The Mimsiest Snark
The Slithy Tove

or....

The Vanishing Point
Parallax Paladin
Springheeled Jack
Peaches En Regalia


some other cool RN names

Ajax
Warspite
Iron Duke

 

[tycho brahe]

my players nicknamed there 100 year old corsair the "rust bucket" although its original name was "Chekov's gun" then when the ship eventually fell apart there next ship was named "lets all just pray that it works" dispite my best efforts to persuade them not to the name stuck.

 

[JRDelo]

I had a group of players name their ship The Uninvited Guest. Later, the next one was called Darlene.

 

[mhensley]

My players went for the predictable "Centennial Eagle". Urg... :?

 

[Infojunky]

So how about this;

Starship Bob.