A whole bunch o' Ship Names

[Michael Brinkhues]

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.

If you like Krauts

Derflinger (WWI BC, aka The iron dog)
Von der Tann (WWI BC)
Hindenburg (WWI BC)
Seydlitz (WWI BC)
Lützow (WWI BC)
Tanenberg (Famous Battle in WWI)
Blücher (WWI CC/WWII CC)
Goeben (WWI BC)
Breslau (WWI CC)

And all the "cities"

Köln, Karlsruhe, Dresden, Hamburg (Light cruisers)

And:

Bremse (The insect, also: Brake) (Artillerie-test ship)
Brummer (Again an insect, a loud fly , Hummer) (as above)


But what about the Russkies?

"Red October" / Krasnie Octobre (sp?) is a classic[1]
Petropavlosk (Flagship, Russian Far East Fleet 1905)
Pobjeda (BB, Far East, 1905)
Potjemkin (CC, 1905)
Aurora (CC, 1917)
Zarewitsch (BB, 1905)

And the Japanese:

Yashima (BB, 1904)
Hatsue (BB, 1904)
Mushashe (BB turned Carrier)
Yamamoto (Admiral, Pearl)
Togo (Admiral, victor of 1905)


Michael

[1] Some TOS-novels (Crisis at Centaurus i.e) make hints at Checkov comming from a UdSSR-style system

[The Tatterdemalion King]

USS Demihuman

A bump and a WTF?

[Scorpion]

Ships in my Coda and LUG Trek campaigns:

<i><u>Starfleet</u>:</i>
<ul>
<li>USS Agamemnon
<li>USS Bahamut
<li>USS Bohr
<li>USS Buckminster Fuller
<li>USS Century
<li>USS Euphrates
<li>USS Fomalhaut
<li>USS Gallant
<li>USS Helvetia
<li>USS Horus-Ra
<li>USS Idunn
<li>USS MacRae (in my campaign, named for a famous peacemaking general during Zefram Cochrane's time)
<li>USS Mohawk (after the Indian tribe, not the hairstyle ... )
<li>USS Mount Seleya
<li>USS Nemesis
<li>USS Paladin (is this a popular name or what?)
<li>USS Peerless
<li>USS Persephone
<li>USS Schweitzer
<li>USS Undaunted
</ul>

<i><u>Others</u>:</i>

<ul>
<li>Glory Station (subtitled with a Greek letter, i.e. Glory Station Epsilon)
<li>Naja Bukomi (from the anime Lensman, which is based on the Doc Smith pulp-sf novels)
<li>Brittannia (also Lensman/Doc Smith)
<li>Septimus Leechwolf (owned by a Cardassian smuggler, named after a creature in my campaign native to the Cardassian world Septimus)
<li>Siren Song (a tanker modified into an Orion Syndicate pirate ship)
<li>A lot of random-sounding alien vessel names not worth mentioning here
</ul>

<i><u>Unused Ideas</u>:</i>

<ul>
<li>USS Anaximander (Science Vessel)
<li>USS Curie (science vessel)
<li>USS Garret (after the Enterprise-C Captain)
<li>USS Harriman (after the Enterprise-B captain)
<li>USS Infinitude (explorer vessel)
<li>USS Monitor (Ablative Armored)
<li>USS Merrimac (Ablative Armored)
<li>USS Superlative (biggest and baddest class for the era, i.e. Sovereign-class)
</ul>

[Rimmer]

USS Warlock (Defiant class) & USS Archangel (Soverign class) USS Pioneer (Excelsior class)

[BouncyCaitian]

USS Karl Von Clauswitz
USS Herod Aggripa
USS Soryu
USS Hiryu
USS Akaga