# Name that fictional ship! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914 "2007-05-05T19:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/181 "2007-05-08T22:47:15Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Pathfinder [/QUOTE] The colony/exploration ship from _Procyon’s Promise_. Or at least that’s the _Pathfinder_ that popped into my head. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/182 "2007-05-08T22:52:12Z")
I’ll be impressed if anybody gets this one from memory (no fair Googling!)— The _Slanderscree_ ---
**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:** [May 8, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/183 "2007-05-08T23:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] The colony/exploration ship from _Procyon’s Promise_. Or at least that’s the _Pathfinder_ that popped into my head. [/QUOTE] A RL Pathfinder– > **[Pathfinder-class survey ship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_class_survey_ship)** > > Cruise Speed (5,000 HP) 18 kn (21 mph) The Pathfinder-class survey ships are owned by the United States Navy and operated by Military Sealift Command for the Naval Oceanographic Office ("NAVOCEANO"). They have mostly civilian crews, including scientists from NAVOCEANO. The Pathfinder-class survey ships have three multipurpose cranes and five winches plus a variety of oceanographic equipment including multi-beam echo-sounders, towed sonars and expendable sensors. These ships are capable of carryi... ---
**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:** [May 8, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/184 "2007-05-08T23:15:02Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I’ll be impressed if anybody gets this one from memory (no fair Googling!)— The _Slanderscree_ [/QUOTE] **Icerigger** - Alan Dean Foster. Ask a hard one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/185 "2007-05-08T23:15:23Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I’ll be impressed if anybody gets this one from memory (no fair Googling!)— The _Slanderscree_ [/QUOTE] Easy; that’s the iceship from Alan Dean Foster’s Tran-ky-ky novels. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/186 "2007-05-08T23:17:30Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **Icerigger** - Alan Dean Foster. Ask a hard one! 😃 [/QUOTE] Heh. You didn’t mention _Mission to Moulokin_ or _The Deluge Drivers_; it’s a trilogy. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/187 "2007-05-08T23:19:27Z")
See my previous comment that we **have** to get together for a beer sometime! ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/188 "2007-05-09T00:17:54Z")
**silenus** is really good at this, bro — he kicked much butt in the last “Name That” games I posted last year. 🙂 For a new challenge, try [Name That Rank!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=420044) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/189 "2007-05-09T02:52:08Z")
[QUOTE=DirkGntly] I could be wrong…the giantish ship of Saltheart Foamfollower in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series…? [/QUOTE] I knew it was a name I’d read many times. You got it and it wasn’t my list, I just know you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/190 "2007-05-09T03:24:22Z")
The USS Flagg was from GI Joe ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/191 "2007-05-09T08:40:19Z")
Yikes. I said Martha Briggs. It should be _Matilda Briggs_. Two more linked ones: _Jungfrau, and Rachael_ ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/192 "2007-05-09T08:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=DirkGntly] I could be wrong…the giantish ship of Saltheart Foamfollower in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series…? [/QUOTE] Close, but the wrong Covenant series - it’s actually the ship of the Giants of the Search in the Second Chronicles, and on which Covenant, Linden Avery, Vain and eventually Findail sail (with the Giants) in search of the One Tree. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/193 "2007-05-09T11:20:35Z")
Britannic ocean liner in the film JUGGERNAUT ---
**Author:** ![Zambini57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4491bb/32.png) [@Zambini57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zambini57)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/194 "2007-05-09T12:25:23Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] I thought the USS Abraham Lincoln was Pinkerton’s ship in the opera “Madama Butterfly.” And the Busted Flush was the boat Travis McGee lived on in John D. MacDonald’s stories. [/QUOTE] IIRC, the “Busted Flush” was also the name of a B-29 in the book “The Jesus Factor”. I can’t think of anything except the “Raging Queen”. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/195 "2007-05-09T12:34:34Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] The colony/exploration ship from _Procyon’s Promise_. Or at least that’s the _Pathfinder_ that popped into my head. [/QUOTE] Not the one I was thinking of. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/196 "2007-05-09T14:36:10Z")
Nobody’s gotten one on mine yet: **Vrolijkheid** Yet someone got the **Sea Tiger**. Go figure. Oh, and kiss my foot, Frank. (That’s a clue, not a commentary about a Mod.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/197 "2007-05-09T15:34:28Z")
[QUOTE=Zambini57] I can’t think of anything except the “Raging Queen”. [/QUOTE] _Miles Cowperthwaite_ ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/198 "2007-05-09T16:13:28Z")
I’m sure I know the Pathfinder but I just can’t think of it 😕 It will come to me … Meanwhile how two more: the _Dolly_ and the _Muddlin’ Through_. Two very different vessels! ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/199 "2007-05-09T16:31:25Z")
The Muddlin’ Through is from Day of Burning - Poul Anderson ---
**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:** [May 9, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/200 "2007-05-09T16:34:16Z")
These haven’t been ID’d yet, I think, so I will: _Filthy Whore_ - from the very bad Chris Elliot comedy, _Cabin Boy_ USS _Nathan James_ - nuclear-powered destroyer that survives WWIII in William Brinkley’s excellent _The Last Ship_ USS _Kearsarge_ - due to rendezvous with the _Enterprise_ near the Vodrey Nebula in TNG “Firstborn” USS _Eisenhower_ - Carrier destroyed by the Chigs in _Space: Above and Beyond_ Starship _Sun Yat-sen_ - Chinese warship referred to on that show. Now how about: USS _Cunningham_ _Sutherland_ (either or both of two fictional options) USS _Truman_ (the fictional one) _Surak_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=11)