Humorous Ship Names

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2 March 2009 at 16:47 #19000
Pierre
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A ship recently docked in CapeTown -her name made me really chuckle! Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera with me and she sailed a couple of hours later.

Her name: “Titan Uranus”, registered in Manila.

Anyone else come across really funny ship’s names?

Cheers – Pierre
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2 March 2009 at 16:47 #3309
Pierre
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2 March 2009 at 17:54 #19002
Colin Bishop
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There is a large Italian cruise ship called Costa Fortuna.

Colin
2 March 2009 at 23:25 #19019
Rick Fryer
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I still like to imagine the reaction to sailors on a run ashore from HMS Pansy or HMS Spanker!

Rick
3 March 2009 at 17:53 #19035
ashley needham
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Rick, there were loads of them of course, Flowers, as per corvettes. But nowadays we have a warship named after a shopping centre…..”St Albans”…..

Whatever happened to “devastation” “Terrible” and such like names?? Ashley
5 March 2009 at 09:31 #19063
Francis Macnaughton
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What town would HMS TERRIBLE be affiliated to I wonder?!!
6 March 2009 at 00:04 #19079
Rick Fryer
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Francis, the list is endless and offers a chance to offend almost everyone!
6 March 2009 at 06:52 #19081
ashley needham
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Rick, thats very true, but in mitigation, during the war at least the Pansies or whatever only had “H M S ” on their cap tallies ! Ashley

And how did the Itralians fit “Luigi di Savola duca degli Abruzzi” on the cap tally of their 1937 “Abruzzi” class cruiser !!!!
6 March 2009 at 07:10 #19085
Paul T
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I do recall a yacht that I saw on the boat park at Laxey harbour that had a very funny name based upon a certain male organ.

I cant write it down as it might upset our more tender members and I don’t know how the boats owners got away with it but it must have given the local coast guard a wry smile whenever the captain used the radio.

Paul
6 March 2009 at 07:42 #19087
Bob Abell 2
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There`s nowt funny, calling a yacht ……..Richard!

There used to be a model plane kit maker, and he was called…………Richard Head!

The Tannoy chappie……Dave Bishop….(any relation Colin? ) used to have a good laugh about it!

Bob
6 March 2009 at 17:01 #19097
Rick Fryer
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Ashley, I understand that the Italian crew of “Luigi di Savola duca degli Abruzzi” were specially selected from seamen with a cap size in excess of seven and a half – or whatever the metric equivalent is!

Rick
6 March 2009 at 18:57 #19110
ashley needham
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Yo dude! like it. ts a good job the “victory” was named as such, Imagine it was called the “no offence” or something politically correct.

Ashley
6 March 2009 at 23:15 #19115
Rick Fryer
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Some years ago I worked with a Sales Manager who was a delightful Frenchwoman. One day she said to me “How terrible it was, that the Eurostar left for France from a station called Waterloo”. I agreed with her, and suggested we rename it – Agincourt, Crecy or Poitiers, for example.

Rick
7 March 2009 at 07:13 #19121
Paul T
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Last night I tried thinking of a country or group of people that we (the English) had not invaded, gone to war with, erased from existance or just pis*ed off.

And apart from some lost tribes in the Amazon I can’t think of anybody.

This is why we needed such a large navy with big guns (after all those spears can be quite sharp)

Paul
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