# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/101 "2007-05-06T23:15:18Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] I deny that Apollo 10 landed on the moon. And there is a [USCGC Eagle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327)). I went down to New London and had a tour a few weeks ago. [/QUOTE] Apollo 10 didn’t land on the moon, but the mission included rehearsal of all LEM manouevres necessary to make landing possible - they did everything but the final descent and touchdown. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/102 "2007-05-06T23:22:30Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Apollo 10 didn’t land on the moon, but the mission included rehearsal of all LEM manouevres necessary to make landing possible - they did everything but the final descent and touchdown. [/QUOTE] But there was an actual LEM with that name, right? Just because it didn’t land on the moon doesn’t make it fictional. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/103 "2007-05-07T05:11:01Z")
_Moldy Crow_ - Kyle Katarn’s starship in LucasArts’ _Dark Forces_ and _Jedi Knight_ games. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/104 "2007-05-07T07:34:04Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] Here’s mine: Arctic Warrior The Louisa USS Cygnus USS Reuben James\* U-96\*\* Special question: in which movie does the _QEII_ (playing herself) come under a particularly ineffective attack? (The real QEII is shown in an earlier establishing shot, but for the actual attack scene, I’m pretty sure they just used some soundstage trickery!) - A real ship, who played herself, with the assistance of a similar vessel, whose real name is partially visible in one shot. The basic question is to name the movie, but a trivia nut would also hunt down the name of the second ship used to play the _Reuben James_. [/quote] What was name of the other book that featured the Ruben James? Well as long as we are going down that path may I add a 3 parter: USS Dallas What ship portrayed the Dallas in the movie? Where is this ship now? ---
**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 7, 2007, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/105 "2007-05-07T07:51:43Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] USS Dallas What ship portrayed the Dallas in the movie? Where is this ship now? [/QUOTE] That was the Los Angeles-class submarine that tracked the Red October in _The Hunt for Red October_. Can’t help you with parts two and three. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/106 "2007-05-07T08:38:18Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] Here’s mine: Arctic Warrior The Louisa USS Cygnus USS Reuben James\* U-96\*\* Special question: in which movie does the _QEII_ (playing herself) come under a particularly ineffective attack? (The real QEII is shown in an earlier establishing shot, but for the actual attack scene, I’m pretty sure they just used some soundstage trickery!) - A real ship, who played herself, with the assistance of a similar vessel, whose real name is partially visible in one shot. The basic question is to name the movie, but a trivia nut would also hunt down the name of the second ship used to play the _Reuben James_. \*\* A real boat and the inspiration for a movie, which I don’t think ever mentioned the boat by that name or any other – so this is one where you name the movie and the boat’s movie name, if it had one. [/QUOTE] U96 - _Das Boot_ ---
**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 7, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/107 "2007-05-07T10:06:08Z")
A new query: _Martha Briggs_ ---
**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 7, 2007, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/108 "2007-05-07T11:53:30Z")
A few more from me. **Solar Queen** **Overcee** **Far-Stretching Sense Cluster** **Death of Worlds** **Heaven Star** ---
**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 7, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/109 "2007-05-07T13:50:20Z")
**Overcee** - Larry Niven (“Bordered In Black,” I believe). ---
**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 7, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/110 "2007-05-07T14:09:21Z")
Great thread! Try these: The _Filthy Whore_ USS _Nathan James_ USS _Kearsarge_ _Titanic_ (not the one you think) USS _Eisenhower_ (ditto) USS _Hillary Clinton_ Starship _Sun Yat-sen_ _Ark_ ---
**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 7, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/111 "2007-05-07T14:32:53Z")
**Ark** - The aforementioned _Tuf Voyaging_ **USS Hillary Clinton** - _Axis of Time_ trilogy by John Birmingham. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/112 "2007-05-07T14:45:38Z")
_Titanic_, the crashed ship from the Hitchhiker’s series. How about this one: _Titan_ ---
**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 7, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/113 "2007-05-07T15:16:56Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] What was name of the other book that featured the Ruben James? Well as long as we are going down that path may I add a 3 parter: USS Dallas What ship portrayed the Dallas in the movie? Where is this ship now? [/QUOTE] Hunt for Red October (note: The ACTUAL USS Ruben James played itself!) USS Houston “played” the Dallas in the movie, according to IMDb ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/114 "2007-05-07T15:25:06Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Titan [/QUOTE] From Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, which was an 1898 novel about an unsinkable cruise ship that sank on her maiden voyage. As if _that_ could ever happen! 🙂 Here’s one: _Palm d’Orbit_ ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/115 "2007-05-07T15:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] Hunt for Red October (note: The ACTUAL USS Ruben James played itself!) USS Houston “played” the Dallas in the movie, according to IMDb [/QUOTE] Well according to the retired Navy chiefs that run the tour of the USS Blueback, IMDB is wrong. > [@](#): > > When a submarine needs to surface in an emergency it uses a special bank of high pressure air that can push all of the hundreds of tons of water in the ballast tanks out in a matter of seconds, as shown for example in the movie The Hunt for Red October (in which the torpedo room of the Blueback also made a special appearance as one of the settings onboard the Red October.) [cite](http://www.omsi.edu/visit/submarine/diving.cfm) The Blueback is located at the Oregon museum of Science and Industry, in Portland. ---
**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 7, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/116 "2007-05-07T15:36:37Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] From Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, which was an 1898 novel about an unsinkable cruise ship that sank on her maiden voyage. As if _that_ could ever happen! 🙂 Here’s one: _Palm d’Orbit_ [/QUOTE] The restaurant in Futurama (the one in space) ---
**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 7, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/117 "2007-05-07T16:07:15Z")
_Titan_ is also the starship from _Titan A.E._, the animated SF movie. I see that **Fiver** beat me to the fact that it was also the ship in an eerily prescient, pre-1912 novel about a luxury liner that strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks. ---
**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 7, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/118 "2007-05-07T16:43:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Well according to the retired Navy chiefs that run the tour of the USS Blueback, IMDB is wrong. From reading that I think it was just the Blueback’s torpedo room that was in the movie. Maybe the USS Houston got more screen time (they were the sub in the Emergency Surface shot - the flying sub). [From the USS Houston’s webpage](https://www.houston.navy.mil/html/history.html) (bottom of the page) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/119 "2007-05-07T16:56:34Z")
Strange, the chief running the tour of the Blueback said that the Blueback was the flying sub. He said the Navy would get moody if you did that stunt with a nuke. But since the OMSI website does not support this, I bow to your superior cite. Ignorance fought. Thanks. BTW the other book that featured the Ruben James was Red Storm Rising. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/120 "2007-05-07T17:06:57Z")
Throwing my own in, which are probably ridiculously easy: _Elizabeth_ HMS _Lively_ _Wet Dream_ The _Witch of Endor_ _Ampoliros_ \*Splendor Hyaline \* _Eagle’s Shadow_ _Saracen_ _Tarantula_ USS _Kiwi_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=7)