A whole bunch o' Ship Names

[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.

[First of Two]

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

[Phantom]

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.

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?

[Publius]

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

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)

[Highway Hoss]

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.

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.<p>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.

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?

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

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

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

Originally Posted by Publius:
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)

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.

[Sarge]

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.

[Vaebn]

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'

[Lockhart]

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

[Doublecross1]

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.

[Lockhart]

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

[TomMarg]

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

[Robbert Raets]

Originally posted by Lockhart
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?

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

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Robbert Raets


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

ACK!

[AndorMan]

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

[Dan Stack]

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