# 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:** 7
**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, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/121 "2007-05-07T17:25:08Z")
One from me: _HMS Compass Rose_ HMS Lively was Jack Aubrey’s first command on his promotion to post captain. ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/122 "2007-05-07T17:30:26Z")
The Witch of Endor is a spacecraft in “Shiva In Steel” by Fred Saberhagen (Berserker seires) I think the Kiwi’s been done already ---
**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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/123 "2007-05-07T17:35:29Z")
HMS _Compass Rose_ was the rickety, embattled British corvette from the wonderful WW2 novel _The Cruel Sea_, by Nicholas Monserrat (sp?). ---
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/124 "2007-05-07T18:34:28Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] The Witch of Endor is a spacecraft in “Shiva In Steel” by Fred Saberhagen (Berserker seires) I think the Kiwi’s been done already [/QUOTE] It has? Woops, my bad. :o Good call on the _Witch of Endor_, but I was thinking of another ship by the same name… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/125 "2007-05-07T19:07:10Z")
Got a few more: **X-1 X-2 X-X-1** **Planet Express Ship** (that ones a gimmie, 😛 ) **The Perechon** (this ones a toughie) **The Fantastick** ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/126 "2007-05-07T19:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] **The Fantastick** [/QUOTE] There’s probably multiple ships with that name, but the one that comes immediately to mind the ship that Sir Richard Reed, Susan and John Storm, and Captain Benjamin Grimm are aboard when they had the encounter which gave them their pseudo-elemental powers in Marvel’s 1602 series. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/127 "2007-05-07T19:43:59Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] There’s probably multiple ships with that name, but the one that comes immediately to mind the ship that Sir Richard Reed, Susan and John Storm, and Captain Benjamin Grimm are aboard when they had the encounter which gave them their pseudo-elemental powers in Marvel’s 1602 series. [/QUOTE] And that’s the one I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/128 "2007-05-07T19:54:31Z")
[QUOTE=Boulter’s Canary] HMS Lively was Jack Aubrey’s first command on his promotion to post captain. [/QUOTE] Except its not a [fictional vessel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lively_%281804%29). Indeed I think most of the ships in O’Brians work are real ships on which he’s inserted his fictional characters. ---
**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, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/129 "2007-05-07T20:22:03Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **Overcee** - Larry Niven (“Bordered In Black,” I believe). [/QUOTE] \< bzzzz \> We have a winner ! More : **Kuan-Yin** **Fiver** **Shining in the Void** **Silberwelle** ---
**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, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/130 "2007-05-07T20:26:59Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] **Fiver** [/QUOTE] That would be me, although while I’m a fair swimmer, I’m neither a watercraft nor a starship. ---
**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, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/131 "2007-05-07T20:55:26Z")
The _Perechon_ is from the Dragonlance 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 7, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/132 "2007-05-07T21:00:39Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] That would be me, although while I’m a fair swimmer, I’m neither a watercraft nor a starship. [/QUOTE] Your name did remind me of it, but it’s not you. 😃 ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/133 "2007-05-07T21:26:00Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] HMS _Compass Rose_ was the rickety, embattled British corvette from the wonderful WW2 novel _The Cruel Sea_, by Nicholas Monserrat (sp?). [/QUOTE] Correct. The film wasn’t bad, either. ---
**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 7, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/134 "2007-05-07T22:21:03Z")
**Solar Queen** was from Andre Norton’s novels.Starship & free trader. ---
**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 7, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/135 "2007-05-07T22:35:45Z")
**Name the source & characteristics of these ships** USS Flagg USS Jane Blue Fire ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/136 "2007-05-07T23:45:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Good call on the Witch of Endor, but I was thinking of another ship by the same name… There was a ship with that name in a _Horatio Hornblower_ movie. This one, I’m fairly sure. [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0043379/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0043379/) dunno how closely it matches the original novel. ---
**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, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/137 "2007-05-07T23:58:25Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] **Solar Queen** was from Andre Norton’s novels.Starship & free trader. [/QUOTE] Yup. ---
**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 8, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/138 "2007-05-08T02:42:54Z")
Try these two: Duncan Aesclipus Twenty ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/139 "2007-05-08T02:49:50Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] The _Perechon_ is from the Dragonlance novels. [/QUOTE] Wow, I’m surprised that was gotten before my easy choices. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/140 "2007-05-08T03:08:36Z")
These two are still out from me: The _Celsius_ The _Arcus Prima_ Hints - Both are airships, rather than sea or star ships. One is from a video game, the other is from an anime. The anime one may be a touch obscure, but the video game one shouldn’t be too hard. \>\_\> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=8)