The Norwegian research vessel, Seabed Constructor has a number of autonomous subs. They are made by Kongsberg Maritime AS and called HUGINs, which I’m going to guess is named after Odin’s raven Huginn. (I noticed this in a story after they were sent out to seach for the Malaysian airliner. Didn’t find it. Did find a submarine. Swings, roundabouts.)
Robert Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children.
Maybe I should’ve just said Millennium Falcon* instead.
*The Science Fiction convention held in Philadelphia (PhilCon) in 2001 was called the Millennium PhilCon. It was also the 59th WorldCon.
Ah, thanks. Never read that book.
Officially, the Shuttle Enterprise was not named after Kirk’s starship, but after a real-world vessel that bore the same name: All Space Shuttles are officially named after wet-ships that went on voyages of scientific exploration.
But that particular wet-ship was chosen as the namesake because it happened to have the same name as Kirk’s starship.
Nasa named the Apollo 11 command module Columbia (after a mythical Jules Verne cannon used to fire a projectile to the moon). OK, it’s not a ship, but it’s in the spirit.
The command module (and many other ships) were named after the Columbia Rediviva, the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe.