# Name that fictional ship!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914
**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:** 8
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/281 "2007-05-17T20:55:44Z")
I read parts of it in high school English class. Many years later, I actually read the whole thing, for fun.
When you don’t have to write an essay on it the next morning, Classic Literature is actually fun to read.
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### Author:  [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/282 "2007-05-20T09:41:50Z")
As this thread seems pretty much defunct and just to be a total completist (i.e.pedant), I’ll give the answers to mine that were missed:
Green Carnation - Starship. One of the ships of the Interstellar Anarchists in M John Harrison’s _The Centauri Device._
Death or Glory - Boat. From Arthur Ransome’s \*Swallows and Amazons \* series.
Chorazin - Sea ship. The villain’s ship in Michael Scott Rohan’s voodoo fantasy _Chase the Morning_
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/283 "2007-05-20T11:06:31Z")
USS Jane _was_ from GI Joe, but _was not_ a Frigate. It was a heavily modified freighter.
Blue Fire was a Klingon Starship, from the Trek novel _The Final Reflection_.
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/284 "2007-05-20T15:28:41Z")
Great thread while it lasted.
The \*Karnak \* was the paddle-steamer where _Death on the Nile_ took place.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/285 "2007-05-20T16:56:30Z")
Here are answers to mine:
_Earth’s Hope_ - Interplanetary ship that took Mandela and his fellow soldiers to Pluto for training in _The Forever War_.
_Bonaventure_ - According to ST:TAS, the first Earth ship equipped with warp drive (later contradicted; see below).
_Horizon_ - The ship which left behind the book on Chicago gangs on the 1920s in ST:TOS “A Piece of the Action.”
_Phoenix_ - Zefrem Cochrane’s first warp-drive-equipped ship in the ST movie “First Contact,” and the first _Nebula_-class ship shown in ST:TNG.
_Scorpion_ and _Charleston_ - The U.S. submarines in the Nevil Shute book and first movie of _On the Beach_, and in the Armand Assante remake, respectively.
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/286 "2007-05-20T19:10:22Z")
How about:
_Alba Varden_
_Revenge_
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/287 "2007-05-20T19:37:31Z")
The _Alba Varden_ was the South African ship that Murtaugh and Riggs trashed in **Lethal Weapon 2**.
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/288 "2007-05-20T19:45:54Z")
I hate threads like these (and by extension all those who post in them, sorry)
When I turn up what little knowledge I have has already been taken out, worn and left back in the drawers, slightly warm and unfolded :mad:
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