# Cool Ship or Boat Names. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756 "2007-08-24T13:40:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/41 "2007-08-24T19:38:50Z")
[QUOTE=Long Time First Time] _Camel of the Sea_ [/QUOTE] I wonder if he saw the B. Kliban cartoon? ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/42 "2007-08-24T23:53:03Z")
Pillar of Autumn from Halo is good also. I like the ship names in Andromeda: Andromeda Ascendant Pax Magellanic Glorious Heritage Crimson Sunrise Balance of Judegment Brian ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/43 "2007-08-25T01:25:54Z")
Oh, another wonderfully ironic name: _Daigo Fukuryu Maru_, aka [_Lucky Dragon #5_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Dragon). If the story is not familiar, the ship and crew were badly contaminated after the bomb used in the 1954 Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll proved to be much more powerful than expected. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/44 "2007-08-25T01:34:22Z")
My roommate’s friend has a small little boat, and we went on the lake the other day for some wakeboarding. The thing is a piece of shit. Holes in the fiberglass, the motor had dryer vent hose for air intake, jury-rigged everything. The name? Sofa King. I think you can guess why. ---
**Author:** ![Offkenter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Offkenter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Offkenter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/45 "2007-08-25T02:05:32Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Try to avoid macho fist-pumping military names like _Dauntless_ or _Intrepid._ [/QUOTE] The _Dauntless_ was used by E.E “Doc” Smith in the \* Lensman\* series. When Randall Garret wrote a story that parodied the series, he had a ship named the \* Dentlesss\*. I love that name. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstage\_Lensman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstage_Lensman) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/46 "2007-08-25T04:00:41Z")
This thread was fun, while it lasted, and might interest you too: [Name that fictional ship! - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=419618) ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/47 "2007-08-25T04:29:43Z")
My father bought a boat that was named “Gentle Ben.” He laughed and bought a sticker with the word “dover” on it somewhere, putting it below the name. We laughed a bunch. Then he named it Nemisis II when he decided to put it out at the lake. He bought a new boat last year and named it “Nobar Toofar” He didn’t lie. He took it to Lake Ontario for a fishing/drinking trip today. Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/48 "2007-08-25T04:48:41Z")
A motor yacht seen moored in Norfolk, Virginia… _Indiscretion_, on it were two small runabouts, _A Little Indiscretion_ and _Another Little Indiscretion_. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/49 "2007-08-25T05:14:59Z")
First Pratchett fan here, I guess. _The Prid of Ankh-Moorpark_ These things happen when the guy painting the name on the boat gets distracted. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/50 "2007-08-25T05:18:39Z")
[QUOTE=Civil Guy] These things happen when the guy painting the name on the boat gets distracted. [/QUOTE] Similarly, if one’s seen the Cary Grant movie [Father Goose](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058092/), there’s a scene where he paints the name on his launch as _Ynnej_. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/51 "2007-08-25T05:38:19Z")
When I was a much younger fella, I had a tiny sailboat. I named her _Seagoon_. After the main character in almost every episode of The Goon Show. You know, Mr. Eddie Neecroon (bonus points if you know which episode that is). Roddy ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/52 "2007-08-25T07:28:21Z")
I always wanted a yacht called isoodn1. I had suggestions it was too cryptic so we settled on Best Revenge. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/53 "2007-08-25T19:52:05Z")
When a sailboat doesn’t flex or wallow around, it’s said to be “stiff.” When the McLaughlin Boat Works took over as builder of the old Day Sailer-I design, the foam core hull was delightfully stiff. So stiff, in fact, that one of the first owners named his boat _Katkantscratchit_. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/54 "2007-08-25T21:46:06Z")
The blog BoingBoing won the right to name on the VirginAtlantic Airlines planes and they chose to call it “Unicorn Chaser.” The name arises from a tradition on the blog of following (chasing) any horrific story or picture or video with a picture of a pretty pristine unicorn. And I’ve always fancied the name “Storm Crow” for any such applicable vehicle. – IG ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/55 "2007-08-25T22:42:52Z")
From Trek: **USS Brattain** named after Walter Brattain CO-discoverer of the transistor. Unknown to 99% of the public but responsible for developing one of the most important devices in history. Coolest spaceship name ever from the movie of the same: **Event Horizon**. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/56 "2007-08-25T22:58:22Z")
[QUOTE=Icerigger] named after Walter Brattain CO-discoverer of the transistor. [/QUOTE] Again, I am on the wrong side of fighting ignorance. I thought it was [Shockely, Bardeen and Brittain.](http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa061698.htm) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/57 "2007-08-25T23:04:08Z")
From Guy Clark’s _The Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint._ \* Old Flint’s boat is fine and she’s called the **Miss-Inclined** and there’s no home port painted on her stern and they say she’s like a ghost up and down that Texas coast but you saw him didn’t you Laverne?\* ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/58 "2007-08-26T04:09:07Z")
Last Saturday at my 20th high school renunion we found out a classmate has done very well for himself. After the dinner, the party moved onto his 100 foot 2 million dollar yacht the “_YOLO_” You Only Live Once. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/59 "2007-08-26T05:04:46Z")
Coolness, noboy has mentioned my Favorite…being an old heinlen fan, it just has to be _Rodger Young_ in reference to the ship from Starship Troopers. Either that or named for my ship in an old RPG _Pax Romana_ I will need guns for that one. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756/60 "2007-08-26T14:05:03Z")
I leap into crudity with a boat I saw at the recent White Marlin Open: The _Muff Diver_. Oy. Not much class, but a certain something… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-ship-or-boat-names/416756.md?page=4)