# Favourite warship name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218 "2009-09-23T12:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/21 "2009-09-23T17:03:58Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Score: Royal Navy 1, Martians 0. Actually, the final score was Royal Navy 1, Martians 1. The second tripod “melted Thunderchild’s valiant heart.” ---
**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:** [September 23, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/22 "2009-09-23T17:08:07Z")
Well, at least Thunderchild did better than The Flying Wing.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/23 "2009-09-23T17:35:14Z")
First favorite: The USS Constitution aka “Old Ironsides”. Second favorite: The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier because that’s what I nicknamed my old Ford Country Squire station wagon. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/24 "2009-09-23T17:40:40Z")
I’ve always been partial to the [USS Scabbardfish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scabbardfish_(SS-397)) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/25 "2009-09-23T17:45:41Z")
Royal navy 2 (first by guns, second by ramming), Martians 1 (heat ray) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/26 "2009-09-23T18:07:27Z")
Royal Army - 1, Royal Navy - 1, Martians - more than you can count. Honestly, has anybody bothered to listen to _WOTW_ lately? Artillery got the first Martian, and were wiped out by the rest. **Thunderchild** got one of the tripods securing the harbor by ramming, and was cut down by the other two. That was it for our side. “Earth belonged to the Martians.” Ulla! Ulla! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/27 "2009-09-23T18:20:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Royal Army - 1, Royal Navy - 1, Martians - more than you can count. And microbes trump all. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/28 "2009-09-23T18:28:50Z")
> [@Tranquilis](#): > > And microbes trump all. Given that I am currently struggling with the flu, all I can say is “No kidding!” We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/29 "2009-09-23T18:34:34Z")
The [Tyrannicide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ship_Tyrannicide_%281793%29). ---
**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:** [September 23, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/30 "2009-09-23T18:42:16Z")
Another favorite and one of the most beautiful, HMS (did they use that then?) **Sovereign of the Seas** ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/31 "2009-09-23T18:45:35Z")
[HMS Tireless](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tireless_(S88)) put in for a port visit at the U.S. Navy submarine base in Groton, CT a few years ago. We invited their wardroom over once to our sub, and they returned the favor. (They were better hosts, as they served beer. Unfortunately, U.S. ships are dry.) Anyway, as we stood around talking, one of our junior officers remarked, “So…no tires on this boat, huh?” 😃 Then there was the other junior officer who kept referring to the visiting sub as the _Tiresome_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/32 "2009-09-23T18:52:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Royal Army - 1, Royal Navy - 1, Martians - more than you can count. > > Honestly, has anybody bothered to listen to _WOTW_ lately? Artillery got the first Martian, and were wiped out by the rest. **Thunderchild** got one of the tripods securing the harbor by ramming, and was cut down by the other two. That was it for our side. > > “Earth belonged to the Martians.” Ulla! Ulla! 😃 [nitpick]There is no “Royal Army”[/nitpick] - and as for listening, good as the album is, only the book is canon. Army 1, Royal Navy 2. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/33 "2009-09-23T18:53:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Royal Army - 1, Royal Navy - 1, Martians - more than you can count. > > Honestly, has anybody bothered to listen to _WOTW_ lately? Artillery got the first Martian, and were wiped out by the rest. **Thunderchild** got one of the tripods securing the harbor by ramming, and was cut down by the other two. That was it for our side. > > “Earth belonged to the Martians.” Ulla! Ulla! 😃 Thunderchild did destroy 2 tripods. Don’t want to quote the whole chapter, but it steamed towards 3 tripods, as soon as they fired at it with the heat ray, it fired its guns and destroyed one tripod. The other 2 then both hit it with heat rays, at which point it exploded, but the wreckage rammed and destroyed a second tripod. And you should know there’s no such thing as the Royal Army. It was probably the Royal East Anglian Medium Artillery or something that got the first hard kill. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/34 "2009-09-23T18:59:18Z")
Lacking my copy here at school, I bow to the better read. I can’t access the e-version from school, either. And yes, I know there’s no “Royal Army.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/35 "2009-09-23T19:29:22Z")
They weren’t messing around when naming: _HMS Terror HMS Devastation HMS Revenge HMS Implacable_ Ambiguous: _HMS Terrible HMS Furious HMCS Chilliwack_ Not so hot: _HMS Buttercup HMS Candytuft HMS Cowslip HMS Dahlia HMS Honeysuckle HMS Marigold HMS Periwinkle HMS Petunia HMS Pink HMS Poppy HMS Primrose HMS Snowflake HMS Tulip_ ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/36 "2009-09-23T19:56:30Z")
Real: USS Enterprise Fictional: Righteous Indignation ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/37 "2009-09-23T20:06:51Z")
Not menacing, but I love it: [USS Cowpens](http://www.cowpens.navy.mil). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/38 "2009-09-23T20:24:54Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Real: > USS Enterprise > > Fictional: > Righteous Indignation God loves children, fools, & ships named _Enterprise_. He also, apparently, love bunnies. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/39 "2009-09-23T20:42:44Z")
There was not one, but two USS Sappho. Must have resulted in some awkward shore leave incidents “Our ship is named after an ancient Greek lesbian poet. Um, and she was a really mean bull dyke, so don’t get any ideas.” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warship-name/511218/40 "2009-09-23T21:26:39Z")
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