Name that fictional ship!

[Malacandra]

@Robot Arm

I deny that Apollo 10 landed on the moon.

And there is a USCGC Eagle. I went down to New London and had a tour a few weeks ago.

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.

[Malodorous]

@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.

But there was an actual LEM with that name, right? Just because it didn’t land on the moon doesn’t make it fictional.

[Cleophus]

Moldy Crow - Kyle Katarn’s starship in LucasArts’ Dark Forces and Jedi Knight games.

[Rick]

@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.

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?

[Robot_Arm]

@Rick

USS Dallas
What ship portrayed the Dallas in the movie?
Where is this ship now?

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.

[Boulter_s_Canary]

@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.

U96 - Das Boot

[Cicero]

A new query: Martha Briggs

[Der_Trihs]

A few more from me.

Solar Queen
Overcee
Far-Stretching Sense Cluster
Death of Worlds
Heaven Star

[silenus]

Overcee - Larry Niven (“Bordered In Black,” I believe).

[Elendil_s_Heir]

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

[silenus]

Ark - The aforementioned Tuf Voyaging

USS Hillary Clinton - Axis of Time trilogy by John Birmingham.

[Tuckerfan]

Titanic, the crashed ship from the Hitchhiker’s series.

How about this one: Titan

[Labtrash]

@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?

Hunt for Red October (note: The ACTUAL USS Ruben James played itself!)

USS Houston “played” the Dallas in the movie, according to IMDb

[Fiver]

@Tuckerfan

Titan

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

[Rick]

@labtrash

Hunt for Red October (note: The ACTUAL USS Ruben James played itself!)

USS Houston “played” the Dallas in the movie, according to IMDb

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
The Blueback is located at the Oregon museum of Science and Industry, in Portland.

[Labtrash]

@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

The restaurant in Futurama (the one in space)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

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.

[Labtrash]

[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 (bottom of the page)

[Rick]

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.

[Kythereia]

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