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COOL ship names
Don't think I'm the only one who tries to name their warships some cool badass name, evocative of the golden age of the Royal Navy.
My rule is simple, but you don't have to follow it. I generally avoid references to places with few exceptions, I prefer an adjective that infers "I'm gonna win this" like some Royal Navy classics, see examples below.
Help me think up some more. Im gonna edit the main post quoting good ones, so please save me some trouble and Ctrl+F to see if your suggestion has been posted already.

So here's the list I came up with so far:

For Ships-of-the-Line
Royal Oak
Ark Royal
Admirable
Prince royal
Victory
Valiant
Triumph
Illustrious
Majestic
Magnificent
Indefatigable
Renown
Formidable
Valiant
Dauntless
Indomitable
Inveterate

Steamers (battlecruisers and monitors. Mainly battlecruisers)
Adamant
Challenger
Colossus
Defiance
Drednought
Peacemaker
Formidable
Warspite
Titan
Leviathan
Vanguard
Invincible
Implacable
Resolution
Thunderous
Ironclad
Petard
Prodigal

Wooden boats
Adventure

Frigate
Astute
Albatross
Bloodhoud
Chaser
Cruiser
Cutlass
Hornet
Vigilant
Avenger
Interceptor
Ranger

In General
Audacious
Bold
Brilliant
Brittania
Champion
Chieftain
Conqueror
Constitution
Courageous
Daring
Dauntless
Dafender
Discovery
Fury
Loyal
Intrepid
Sentinel
Warwick
Last edited by Zuao; May 7 @ 6:36pm
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Wooden Boat:
Jenny (Forrest Gump)
Indefatigable and Indomitable should be battlecruisers. Add Inflexible to the battlecruisers and there's your 1st 4 names.

For the era, Dreadnought should be a ship of the line, but I can understand the reason for making her a battlecruiser. Assuming you use them in order listed, I'd start the BC's as:

Dreadnought
Invincible
Inflexible
Indomitable
Indefatigable
and so on.

Other names could be
Royal Sovereign
Sovereign of the Seas
Superb
Monarch
Thunderer
Centurion
Emperor/Empress of *your city name*
Iron Duke/Duchess/Dog (Iron Dog was apparently the nickname bestowed on Derfflinger by UK sailors.)
Revenge
Repulse

Yes, I know this list is lifted straight from RN dreadnoughts, but the R.N. did have a very inspiring naming policy for their capital ships.

And a name I use for a powerful warship in space games:
Vindicator

And a name you can use for the weakest ship in the fleet (if you are mocking the historical usage) or the best/most powerful (if you are sincere)
Grofaz (google it).
Last edited by captain403; May 8 @ 5:00am
Chaosium May 8 @ 12:06pm 
The Unsinkable II is always my flagship
Zuao May 8 @ 2:37pm 
Mine's the Friend Ship
Originally posted by Chaosium:
The Unsinkable II is always my flagship
"What happened to Unsinkable I?"
"It sunk."
"Oh..."
Strandly May 11 @ 8:33pm 
I give mine crude or funny names like right now I have 3 combat airships named Moe, Larry, and Curly. Battleships I might name Fartbreath or Pimpslap. Cargo ships that I use for spot transfers I name Donkey and Mule, etc.
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