# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/161 "2007-05-08T18:16:50Z")
**Steve MB** and **Labtrash** nailed 'em. I really should’ve gone with the \*Antonio Graza \* (an ocean liner) from **Ghost Ship** , because the \*Arctic Warrior \* was just a salvage boat or maybe a tugboat, but I wanted to make it harder to get. 🙂 Still extant are my _Louisa_ and my _QEII_ questions. And I know of one Doper in this thread who definitely should know the latter… (perhaps he’s been holding off to see if anyone else will?). ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/162 "2007-05-08T18:43:48Z")
USS Nimitz ( I’m not sure if she plays herself in movie) My personal fictional favorite: Ringle ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/163 "2007-05-08T18:46:09Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio] USS Nimitz ( I’m not sure if she plays herself in movie) [/QUOTE] She does, if the movie you mean is _The Final Countdown._ And I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/164 "2007-05-08T18:48:27Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] And I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. [/QUOTE] My work here is done! ---
**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 8, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/165 "2007-05-08T18:52:47Z")
_Astarte_ and _Aes Triplex_ are ships from Heinlein’s short stories, aren’t they? Planetary Patrol craft from _Space Cadet_, I’m thinkin’? Has anyone answered the _Thunderchild_ question? It was the British warship which took on a Martian tripod in the original H.G. Wells book _War of the Worlds_, and also a Federation starship that clashed with the Borg cube in _Star Trek: First Contact_. Maybe the only thing that could have saved the Tom Cruise remake of _War of the Worlds_ would have been an _Arleigh Burke_-class destroyer USS _Thunderchild_ taking on a tripod off the New Jersey coast. Now _that_ would’ve been wicked cool! ---
**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, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/166 "2007-05-08T18:55:29Z")
Ahem…post #28. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/167 "2007-05-08T19:09:37Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] _Astarte_ and _Aes Triplex_ are ships from Heinlein’s short stories, aren’t they? Planetary Patrol craft from _Space Cadet_, I’m thinkin’? [/QUOTE] Yup. ---
**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 8, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/168 "2007-05-08T19:10:56Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Ahem…post #28. [/QUOTE] Right you are. Oh, well - at least I got to add the later _Star Trek_ reference. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/169 "2007-05-08T19:21:17Z")
A few more, if you please… The Yggdrasill The Golden Apple The Agamemmnon Bright Beauty ---
**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, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/170 "2007-05-08T19:25:01Z")
**Agamemnon** - Captain Sheridan’s previous command on **Babylon 5**. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/171 "2007-05-08T19:31:30Z")
**Ringle** - Jack Aubrey’s Baltimore clipper which he won from Heneage Dundas in a backgammon(?) game. Usually under the command of Midshipman Reade. **Yggdrasill** - The Treeship captained by True Voice of the Tree Het Masteen in the _Hyperion_ books. (silenus should have gotten this one) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/172 "2007-05-08T19:51:16Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **Agamemnon** - Captain Sheridan’s previous command on **Babylon 5**. [/QUOTE] It also was in the TNG Borg two parter. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/173 "2007-05-08T20:16:06Z")
And there’s also an **Agamemnon** in _The Moat Around Murcheson’s Eye_ (TMIGE sequel). Nobody picked up **Starfare’s Gem** yet. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/174 "2007-05-08T20:42:45Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] A few more, if you please… The Yggdrasill **The Golden Apple** The Agamemmnon Bright Beauty [/QUOTE] Hagbard Celine’s submarine in the _Illuminatus !_ trilogy Another one : Britannic ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/175 "2007-05-08T20:53:31Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Nobody picked up **Starfare’s Gem** yet. [/QUOTE] I could be wrong…the giantish ship of Saltheart Foamfollower in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series…? ---
**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/176 "2007-05-08T20:56:45Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Dauntless [/QUOTE] The ship that Commodore Norrington captains in “Pirates of the Caribbean.” ---
**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 8, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/177 "2007-05-08T21:08:30Z")
I’m still waiting for an answer for my earlier one: The _Karnak_ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/178 "2007-05-08T21:47:39Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] The ship that Commodore Norrington captains in “Pirates of the Caribbean.” [/QUOTE] Dunno, haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/179 "2007-05-08T22:16:48Z")
[QUOTE=detop] Hagbard Celine’s submarine in the _Illuminatus !_ trilogy [/QUOTE] …was called the _Leif Ericson_. But it was gold colored, IIRC. ---
**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, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/180 "2007-05-08T22:22:18Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] **Name the source & characteristics of these ships** USS Flagg USS Jane Blue Fire [/QUOTE] Don’t forget these. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914.md?page=10)