Crowdsourced ship names

20 Nov 2013, 12:25 p.m.

You came up with a whole bunch of excellent new ship names, which I have added to the list. Having lots of names is important, because ideally, ships of the same class should have names that start with the same letter.

Here's the new additions along with their inventors:

Iosif

• Nebuchadnezzar
• Dementation
• Methuselah
• Antediluvian

jjc-uk

• Conspiracy
• Harbinger
• Rigor Mortis
• Golem

Rachael Hall

• Tumult
• Encroacher
• Imposition

Helen

• Insidious
• Anathema
• Nero
• Minotaur
• Putrefaction
• Aggregation
• Sclerotic
• Graham
• Anthrax

Anna

• Vermiform
• Squalid
• Vindictive
• Insensitive
• Abhorrence
• Granular
• Mischance
• Groan
• Overwhelmer
• Emetic
• Slander
• Incomprehensible
• Unhealthy
• Monomaniac

Anna also adds:

@zarkonnen_com Can't claim credit for Vindictive, though, it was an actual ship in the navy. My great-grandfather used it to raid Zebrugge.

— Anna (@annarchism) November 18, 2013

Addendum

Here's the number of names for each letter so far. If in doubt, there can be just no default names starting with X, Y, or J, but I'm going to have to think up more names for F, K, L, P, Q, W, and Z.

• A 9
• B 3
• C 6
• D 6
• E 6
• F 1
• G 6
• H 5
• I 9
• J 0
• K 1
• L 2
• M 6
• N 3
• O 3
• P 1
• Q 1
• R 6
• S 8
• T 6
• U 7
• V 3
• W 2
• X 0
• Y 0
• Z 1