A whole bunch o' Ship Names

Just some ship names, for those who need 'em. That's all.

Name
USS Ambrosia
USS Jarok
USS Windsor
USS Eire
USS Ukoti
USS Cawdor
USS Rose
USS Grey Owl
USS Eirik
USS Beringar
USS Paphos
USS Thalassa
USS Muirland
USS Theodora
USS Damascus
USS Jan Hus
USS Prussia
USS Meander
USS Ignatz
USS Aquinas
USS Phneldrin
USS Van Rijn
USS Nicolaides
USS Tipperary
USS Bavaria
USS Min’fatha
USS Mogna
USS Adams
USS Livingstone
USS Gnarr
USS Cassowary
USS Tarnoc
USS Izar
USS Mael Dun
USS Onshoma
USS Riga
USS Odessa
USS Byzantium
USS Hector
USS Magnus
USS Hludwig
USS Mnemis
USS Thutmoses
USS Sheherazade
USS Tau Cygnus
USS Ixnos
USS Gishnank
USS Deighton
USS Ottoman
USS Aenari Li
USS Hsun Tzu
USS Horus
USS Merak
USS Lionheart
USS Brian Boru
USS Xolotl
USS Leix
USS Aragon
USS Ural
USS Izates
USS Riven
USS Kabul
USS Ebat’isa
USS T’Vrin-Rab
USS Yliant
USS Gauis-el-Ader
USS Cormorant
USS Erasmus
USS Burgundy
USS Azhnar
USS Lódz
USS Barrack
USS Ulan Bator
USS Cyrus
USS Orpheus
USS Lugh
ADS Jakath
USS Ramses
USS Boethius
USS Albatross
USS Brontë
USS Wedernall
USS Karsh
USS Traahres

Graet stuff C!

So gonna copy this.

What about USS Halfax? :)

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Originally posted by AslanC
Graet stuff C!

So gonna copy this.

What about USS Halfax? :)

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You do mean the USS Halifax? :D

Just created the SwiftSure, Warspite and Vanguard for my new movie-era series. All old British naval names with a long history, and I was trying to avoid yet another USS Ark Royal :D

In my campaign they're Andorian-modified Constitution-refit (Enterprise) class vessels.

Your mileage may vary... :)

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Originally posted by Phantom


You do mean the USS Halifax? :D

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*Aslanc grabs Phantom and stuffs him in a closet, locking it behind him.*

Nothing to see here, move along. :)

USS Half-axe, that'd be, what, a Defiant Class?

Unfortunate mistranslation from the Andorian probably.

Hey, it could have been a typo on the form.

Work Crew member: "Hey, this form says this is the USS Halfax, is that right?"

Work Crew foreman: "It's on the form, that's the name we paint on it."

Hence, the Sovereign class USS Halfax was launched.

Alex

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Originally posted by AslanC
*Aslanc grabs Phantom and stuffs him in a closet, locking it behind him.*

Nothing to see here, move along. :)

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Hey who turned off the lights? :D

As to the topic I usually go with a name from ancient myth, Greek or Roman

My favourites:

Cerberus
Minotaur
Centaur
Scylla


Or famous military persons or Scientists
Augustus
Rommel
Evans
Blegan

Here are a few I like:
Ticonderoga
Bunker Hill
Kitty Hawk
Venture
Hood

Military sounding names all, but Kitty Hawk is the birthplace of aviation so it's rather important too. Hope someone likes some of these. In my campaighn The Ticonderoga (Tico) is the third Soverighn off the lines.

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Originally posted by C. Huth
USS Gishnank

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When I saw this I read USS Grishnakh and thought that Sauron of Mordor was moving in on the Federation.:) :)

Ship Names From The Rapid Deployment Fleet (in my ST game);)

Task Force Tango

USS-Soldier
USS-Bastone
USS-Lankot
USS-Makin
USS-Avenger
USS-Gumont
USS-Bull Run
USS-Atlantica
USS-Pacifica
USS-Alpha Centari
USS-Quantum
USS-Endevour
USS-Argol
USS-Kitty Hawk
USS-Vik'La'Norr
USS-Wasp
USS-Midway
USS-Endurance
USS-Solar
USS-King George
USS-Simplot
USS-Skyhawk
USS-Devistatetor
USS-Champion
USS-Ru'nluk
USS-Andor-B
USS-Grant
USS-Crusade
USS-Belter
USS-Toccaoa
USS-Hudson
USS-York
USS-Tokyo
USS-Arket
USS-Kingsville
USS-DuMont
USS-Helena
USS-Gunner
USS-Port
USS-James
USS-Alwahah
USS-Sounder
USS-Ki'lima
USS-Scout
USS-Peace Keeper
USS-Asia
USS-Mars
USS-Normandy
USS-Tarawa
USS-Vincens
USS-Rescue
USS-Refill
USS-Cargo

Task Force Zulu

USS-Invincible
USS-Iron Duke
USS-Ramses
USS-Paladin
USS-Vengence
USS-Zeus
USS-Pulsar
USS-Andormeda
USS-Leviathan
USS-Arc Royal
USS-Caesar Agustus
USS-Constellation-A
USS-Pike
USS-Saratoga-B
USS-Karakoka
USS-Farragut-B
USS-Montu
USS-Galactica
USS-Quazar
USS-Sovereign
USS-Tempest
USS-Hawking
USS-Storm Front
USS-Franklin
USS-T'Pann
USS-Ven'Trok
USS-Hanncock
USS-Mu'Jahadeen
USS-Ke'nooah
USS-Philidelphia
USS-Minsk
USS-Detroit
USS-Naples
USS-New Haven
USS-Lann
USS-Portland
USS-Troy
USS-Duel
USS-Stockton
USS-Enar
USS-Mishawa
USS-Bissbee
USS-Banbur
USS-Echo
USS-Wave
USS-North America
USS-Europia
USS-Namaar
USS-Iwo Jima
USS-Langley
USS-Mercy
USS-Reforger
USS-Renew

In my campaign, I have a number of ships named after Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Armed Forces ships:

Bras d'Or
Bonaventure
Magnificent
St. Roch
Athabaskan

So, is the USS Ambrosia a supply ship? I mean, ambrosia is a foodstuff, the legendary "nectar of the Gods." Is there also a USS Molson Canadian or a USS Coca Cola Classic? How about a USS Romulan Ale or USS Bloodwine?

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"Captain, the shuttlecraft Sea King just crashed into the smoking remains of the shuttlecraft Labrador."

How about a USS Snapple?
Or a USS Jack Daniels?
USS Diet Pepsi?

:D

others:
USS Big Ben - Is it named after Sisko or the parliament clocktower?
USS Arthur C. Clarke - "My god! It's full of stars!!"
USS Bouncer - Part of the Mars perimeter defense, of course ;)

Hey Owen, care to guess what was the first thing that flashed through my mind when I read that name? :D (nudge nudge ;);), know what I mean, say no more)

But seriously, my French isn't that good, so could you tell me what Bras d'Or really means?

Golden arm.

My series of Nebula classes have been (in order):
USS Socrates
USS Plato
USS Aristotle

I've also used the USS Paragon, Parliment, Faithful, and my current favorite, the USS Frontier.

I always prefer using German ship names myself...Prinz Eugen, Karlrushe, Dredsen, Scharnhorst, Gniesenau, BIsmarck, Tirpitz...and my personal favorite, the Emden, the name of the daring commerce raider.

Let me see what I can recall using...


USS Boadicea
USS Saskatchewan
USS Montana
USS McCormick
USS Akhenaten
USS Pittsburgh
USS Minsk
USS Mudabi
USS Sleastak
USS Papillion
USS Shumway
USS Invictus
USS Vigilant
USS Stalwart
USS Miskatonic
USS Mars
USS Sara Kintyre
USS Dujni'pu
USS Colossus
USS Janus
USS Democritus
USS Tasmania
USS Death Smiley

And the Deceiver Class Covert operations vessels (named for famous liars and traitors):
USS Serpent
USS Lucifer
USS Loki
USS S'task
USS Quisling
USS Judas
USS Thomas Flanagan
USS Morag
USS Belial
USS Benedict Arnold

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Originally posted by Highway Hoss
I always prefer using German ship names myself...Prinz Eugen, Karlrushe, Dredsen, Scharnhorst, Gniesenau, BIsmarck, Tirpitz...and my personal favorite, the Emden, the name of the daring commerce raider.

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Personally I was always partial to the commerce raider Graf Spee. One of the more honourable Captains in the German navy, he would pull alongside his target give them an opportunity to surrender, take them aborad his ship then sink the target vessel.

A question if I may. As interesting as I find these lists of ships in other peoples games, what was the intended purpose here?

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Originally posted by Highway Hoss
(snip)...and my personal favorite, the Emden, the name of the daring commerce raider.

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Have you seen the Emden Class vessel on Bernd Schneider's site?Ex Astris Scientia

I was going to use this vessel as a basis for my Crew's ship until I decided to go whole Hog and make a ship myself (which I have tentatively called the Republic class). I have the deckplans for the Emden all finished however so they will likely encounter one at some point in the near future (a Derelict ship or whatnot, something for them to board). Can anyone suggest a good name that I should use for it? (other than some of the fine suggestions already here of course)

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Originally Posted by Phantom:
Personally I was always partial to the commerce raider Graf Spee. One of the more honourable Captains in the German navy, he would pull alongside his target give them an opportunity to surrender, take them aborad his ship then sink the target vessel.

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The Emden would operate on a similar pattern. Captain Von Mueller would also capture vessels intact for use as supply ships (especially coal) and as transports for the crews of the various ships he sunk.

As for Admiral Graf Spee (the man, not the ship), his victory at the Coronel Islands was a massive blow to the prestige of the Royal Navy.

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Originally Posted by Phantom:
A question if I may. As interesting as I find these lists of ships in other peoples games, what was the intended purpose here?

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IMHO a handy resource for narrators needing names for ships in their campaigns. :D

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Originally Posted by Publius:
Have you seen the Emden Class vessel on Bernd Schneider's site?Ex Astris Scientia

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Of course. I had to get the Meteor class from somewhere. :D

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I was going to use this vessel as a basis for my Crew's ship until I decided to go whole Hog and make a ship myself (which I have tentatively called the Republic class). I have the deckplans for the Emden all finished however so they will likely encounter one at some point in the near future (a Derelict ship or whatnot, something for them to board). Can anyone suggest a good name that I should use for it? (other than some of the fine suggestions already here of course)

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There's a whole listing of Emden class ships at Bernd's site. Just select whatever strikes your fancy. My preference would be the USS Braveheart myself.

Does anyone remember the quote from the movie about the falcon being the stuff of dreams? I think that might be a good dedication plaque quote, but I don't have the movie and can't remember exactly how it goes.

I usually like to add a touch of irony to my games. A Romulan Warbird that the PCs run into from time to time is called the 'Tolerant' :D

I usually don't go into this much detail, and I usually use the ship names from the series (via internet databases) or from supplements like Spacedock, or Among the Clans. I did make one specially named ship, the U.S.S. Tiberius, an Excelsior class, although by the late 2370s it's likely a Sovereign.

Lockhart

One thing I could never seem to understand about the Shows and Movies was the Very Large preponderance of Human Names for ships. With the exception of the Gorkon, the Surak and maybe a few others, I haven't seen too many that have names from famous other race's histories. Also, Instead of maybe The USS Revenge, What about a translation for whatever that particular word is into a different language? For example, maybe in Andorian, the word Revenge = Fulggroth so the Federation would christen the ship the USS Fulggroth. I would find it hard to believe that the Federation could exist with such a massive amount of Human dominance with all of the other species in the back seat just along for the ride. Just my two cents worth.

Well, LUGtrek had a few concessions to that. The USS Eagle (the starship crewed entirely by starfleet Andorians) had an Andorian name, which Starfleet translated as eagle. Presumably each original Federation member had a ship with similar properties. I can only assume the protocol is that they switched to Federation standard when opening channels or ferrying guests.

It'd be interesting to see something like this continue, can you imagine the Ferengi getting an Intrepid all to themselves if they joined the federation?

Lockhart

My suggestion would be U.S.S Archangel. A name I plan on using for a ship in my revamping of my campaign.

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It'd be interesting to see something like this continue, can you imagine the Ferengi getting an Intrepid all to themselves if they joined the federation?

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I'm curious, would they name it USS Moogie or USS Capitalism? :D

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I'm curious, would they name it USS Moogie or USS Capitalism? :D

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ACK! :)

Just a few...

Science Vessels:

Assimov
Heinlein
Herbert
Niven
Clarke

Escorts:

Fedifensor
Glamdring

Andorian Designed Starfleet Vessels:

Shras
Zihl (See LUG's Among the Clans: The Andorian Sourcebook)

Vulcan Designed Starfleet Vessles:

T'Plana'Hath
Mt. Seleya
Xon

General:

Valkyrie
Avalon
Arcadia
Atlantis
Mariner
Oberon
Galahad

AndorMan
These are the voyages of the starship...Andor

We've used:

• Icarus - Daedalus, Ranger, Constitution, Excelsior, Ambassador, Galaxy
• Quetzalcoatl - Galaxy, Intrepid
• Indefatigable - Defiant
• Avenger - Defiant (x2), Klingon Bird of Prey (borta'SwI - the two fought together in the Dominion War)
• H.G. Wells - Defiant (scout modification)
• Constitution - TOS Constitution-class, destroyed in Battle of Wolf 359 when Starfleet used her as a "fire ship", loading her with antimatter to ram a Borg cube - slowed the cube down long enough for Enterprise to catch up
• Andromeda - Galaxy-class during a campaign back in college in 89-90.
• Olympia - STII-era Constitution-class
• Arkadelphia - from the FASA adventure "Decision at Midnight"
• Vigilant - A doomed Miranda-class testing interphasic weapon (an adaptation of "Ghosts of Conscience" by FASA)
• Oberon - A Miranda-class lost in the Fire Swamp and taken over by mind-controlling parasites (an adaptation of FASA's "Lost and Presumed Dead")
• Victory - A Constitution-class ship lost in the space beyond the Fire Swamp, found by a pre-warp species and used to develop warp drive and forge their own Empire.
• Talibak's Lost Latinum - A smuggler ship owned by the Ferengi Incini, named in honor of his first customer, Talibak :D

In my old group ST took up a very small percentage of game time, but there were a few. We used/use:

USS Endeavor (old FASA game, at least I think that was the ship)
USS Toronto (Prime Directive game)
USS Cerberus & USS Centaur (future forum game, I hope)
and of course
The Big E :D (again old Fasa game)

And that is over a period of about fifteen years.

The Fire Swamp??

What did you use for the R.O.U.S.'s?

"My name is Captain Inigo Montoya. You assimilated my father. Prepare to die."

Not to mention Incini the Ferengi. "You fell for one of the classic blunders, the most famous being, never get involved in a land war on Q'ronos! Slightly less well known is this one, never go up against a Ferengi when latinum is on the line!"

Most gaming groups get most of their quotes from Monty Python. We get ours from the Princess Bride.

From our website...

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Though Starfleet had neither circumnavigated nor penetrated the Fire Swamp, there were rumors that others had. There were rumors that the Romulans used the Swamp to sneak into Federation space. Others told of a Ferengi Trading Empire on the far side. There were tales of fallen empires, lost Vulcan colonies, giant rodent-like pirates. Yet they were all rumors until the Federation could find a safe path through it.

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Not to mention Incini the Ferengi. "You fell for one of the classic blunders, the most famous being, never get involved in a land war on Q'ronos! Slightly less well known is this one, never go up against a Ferengi when latinum is on the line!"

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Well, considering who played Zek in DS9... :D

Ok Dan, this is another idea I'm nicking...

Apart from anything else, where else is the Dread Pirate S'Trebor to have his secret base?

;)

The most important ships of my series are:

U.S.S. Victory
U.S.S. Estacian (named after a mystical race)


Nuff said :)

My group uses Python, Princess Bride and of course Buckaroo Banzai for quotes.

But there is another movie that holds a scared quotable place for us...

GHOSTBUSTERS!

"Listen... You smell something?"

As for ship names, we have only one name that is a joke name. Stuck for something to do one game night, I had each player write down 5 words on a piece of paper. I took those words and then hadeach of them pick a number from 1 to 5 and with the 5 words that I ended with made an adventure.

One of the words was "billows". She's a creative writing major, what can you do.

So at a loss on how to use this word...I created the USS Billows. I have no idea if I even gave it a class or an NCC, but it was there to drop someone off :)

The last Trek game I ran (FASA, back in 90) was on the USS Long Beach (NCC-1714). I don't know why I chose Long Beach...it was before I had access to the Federation SRM, but I decided to name a series of Constitution-class heavy cruisers for cities around the Federation (again, I really can't remember how Long Beach came up...it's actually rather embarassing :rolleyes: ).

In my various pbem RPGs, we've used:

USS Mendel (Galaxy-class)
USS Monitor (Nebula-class, later Intrepid-class Monitor-A)
USS Ticonderoga (improved Galaxy-class, later Eagle-class [my own design])

USS Nelson (a Galaxy-like shuttle carrier called the Caesar-class)
USS Montana (Akira-class)
USS Ariane (Tsyklon-class surveyor [made up design])

I've always wanted to make a ship called the Bannockburn, maybe a Saber frigate or a Norway cruiser.

I also like to use non-Terran names a lot, especially since the series all seem to be devoid of them (to the point of being Earth-centric). I'd recommend pulling out your Andorian book and using the language section to make some inspiring names, or peruse the history section for Andorians of legend.

USS Lor'Vela

Other ideas are to use city names from the Planets of the UFP and the Vulcan sourcebooks:

USS Vulcana Regar
USS Shir'Khar

Just some ideas...

Oh, and one for the Horatio Hornblower fans:

USS Indefatigable

Tyger, wasn't the Long Beach the first nuclear powered surface warship? Maybe that's where you got the name from.