Battleship

[Nouw]

D7.

Get it?

The D7 is a battlecruiser, IE a size smaller.
[/trekkie]

Well actually I was trying to reference the game 'Battleship.' Guess I should have made it clearer.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

Well actually I was trying to reference the game 'Battleship.' Guess I should have made it clearer.

And here I was thinking you were talking about this thing;

Ah well.

 

[Spineyguy]

USS Imperator, standing by.

Ironic for a country so vehemently and hypocritically opposed to the idea of autocracy to name a ship with the Latin for 'Emperor'. Were you going for irony, or did you just think it was a cool word?

Also, I'm thinking something really silly, like Perkins.

Ooh, actually HMS Hennimore. Cookie for reference.

 

[mcattack92]

Mine would be called 'Dark Horizons' as it would be a space battleship.

 

[k-ossuburb]

The Satellite Of Love

In the not too distant future, somewhere in time and space...

 

[exarkunsith]

The Trump Sword.

Enough said in my mind at least.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Leviathan because then it sounds like something that will eat your face.

 

[Alcamonic]

Red October, with a computer voiced by Sean Connery. No one could ask for anything more.

 

[omega 616]

I would call it "R"

"The USSR" it would voyage you, it would have the soviet hammer and sickle on it and it would be red! Everybody in the crew would be from Russia and before saying Russia they would have to prefix it with "mother".

I am not Russian or ever been to Russia but I think it would be funny ... it would have a bit of a pirate thing going on as well, "what ship do you work on?" ... "the ARGH!".

Haha.

Do I win the thread?

 

[Genoman21]

Mine would be called the Athos, which is one of the Gigantes from Greek mythology, and i used to draw space-based ships and have a fleet going and that's one of the ships names.

 

[GaltarDude1138]

USS Imperator, standing by.

Ironic for a country so vehemently and hypocritically opposed to the idea of autocracy to name a ship with the Latin for 'Emperor'. Were you going for irony, or did you just think it was a cool word?

Oh, I was just sticking a generic title (selected because of the country I'm from) before a cool-sounding name. Would you prefer HMS Imperator? RMS? ROCS? CSS? HMCS? FS? DKM? LÉ?

So yes, because it's a cool word. And no one really uses it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I would called it "Defiant" and it would be a space battleship (it doesn't sound as cool as a sea battleship).

 

[Fbuh]

Naming a battleship is similar to naming your penis, and oftent he same name. If we go by that logic, then I would call my ship 'The Great Rotundo'.

Or Lagaan, because I'm a dork.

 

[Lhianon]

ISS Athene

the goddess of wisdom and war seems to be an appropriate inspiration for the name of a space-battleship

 

[lordlillen]

Ragnarok or Valhalla
i've always been quite fond of the nordic mythology name's
tor
baldur
freja
odin
all awesome.

 

[mental_looney]

Indefatigable pretty good name for a ship I think

 

[Shakomaru]

The HMS Pirate Ship +1 internet to whoever gets the reference, cause I forgot

 

[Spineyguy]

USS Imperator, standing by.

Ironic for a country so vehemently and hypocritically opposed to the idea of autocracy to name a ship with the Latin for 'Emperor'. Were you going for irony, or did you just think it was a cool word?

Oh, I was just sticking a generic title (selected because of the country I'm from) before a cool-sounding name. Would you prefer HMS Imperator? RMS? ROCS? CSS? HMCS? FS? DKM? LÉ?

So yes, because it's a cool word. And no one really uses it.

You're clearly not acquainted with Warhammer 40k if you think that no-one uses Imperator. I doubt that there are any countries in this day and age whose fleet would contain a ship named Imperator, it doesn't fit with our current global stance in dictatorships, and there isn't a Latino country, at least to my knowledge, that would openly admit to being under the rule of an Autocrat. I was simply commenting on the poor combination of an American title and a traditionally Imperialist name. Most of the ships in your Navy are called things like Liberty, Enterprise, Ronald Reagan, stuff like that, though I know you've named ships in French before, which seems a little odd.

The UK has (or had, it's been scrapped now) the HMS Ark Royal, which comes close to being named for the ruler, though usually we stick to naming our vessels either after specific, significant, historical figures (Prime Ministers, Kings, Queens, Military Commanders, etc), places (Penzance, Grimsby, Bangor, etc), or simply using names that sound virtuous (Tireless, Vigilant, Victorious, etc).

We do have some slightly humorous names for our ships though, we have an HMS Quorn (presumably not named after the meat-substitute), HMS Biter (nom nom nom), and even HMS Example, which just sounds like someone couldn't be bothered to fill out the form properly.