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Homing Pigeons!!! I love those, but only in Worms
As for names:
Scorpiacore Monitor Leviathon Trogolyte Harpy Dragon
Just stick a couple of interesting words in front and you have a ship name (example: Big Bad Trogolyte)
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Originally posted by Kate: **Augh!! Never make fun of pigeons!! **
Then I guess you've never played against me in SOFII.
Homing pigeons are pretty cool, but let's be serious here. Pigeons are like the rodents of the sky. They're all over the place, spreading their gunk where they go. And if pigeons are the mice of the skies, then seagulls come in as the rats of the skies. Messy, noisy, and eat everything, but I digress.
I've come up with some more names: The Runny Nose The Red Death The Black Angel The Green Goblin The Harbringer of Doom The Northern Gale The Feisty Seagull The Killer Tomato
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Originally posted by Matrix: <snip> Homing pigeons are pretty cool <snip Pigeons are like the rodents of the sky. <snip>
Okay, fine. Street pigeons are irritating, scruffy, dirty, etc. But don't make fun of homing pigeons..
More names (I can keep this post on topic -and- rant about pigeons! Amazing!): The Darkened Wave Mothers' Curse The Blackened Bough
My pirate-name-creation streak is starting to wear a little thin..
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Why not use some actual names of pirate ships:
Fancy Mary Anne Whydah Revenge Golden Hind Revenge Royal James Adventure Galley Adventure Prize Blanco Fortune Delivery Happy Delivery Ranger Rising Sun Fortune Good Fortune Royal Fortune Ranger Little Ranger Rover Sea King Queen Anne's Revenge Adventure Revenge
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Originally posted by Wandering_Slacker: **Why not use some actual names of pirate ships:
Fancy Mary Anne Whydah Revenge Golden Hind Revenge Royal James Adventure Galley Adventure Prize Blanco Fortune Delivery Happy Delivery Ranger Rising Sun Fortune Good Fortune Royal Fortune Ranger Little Ranger Rover Sea King Queen Anne's Revenge Adventure Revenge **
Yea, and Mantaray can use the webpages that we've suggested. It's much more fun, however to come up with names on your own.
More names ahead: Pride of the Pacific Pride of the Atlantic Pride of the - where are we? Defiance Golden Horn G' Day Pieces of Eight Eight Pieces Fist of the Devil Evil Eye
Ok, then, I will try to think some up, or at least reference relatively obscure song's ships:
The Antelope The Nightingale The Nancy The Mary Ellen Carter The Athens Queen The Bluenose (an actual ship: (url="http://"http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/flinn/bluenose/bluenose.html")Here(/url)
-Firebird -the spirit of the storm -avenging thunder -thunder -shock lancer -hell hole -white man with an afro -dreaded tyrant
not very good... but none-the-less, who gives a frik anyway???
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here are some that I've come up with:
Hell Fire Fire Dragon Blue Devils Savage
Originally posted by ladyspy45: **here are some that I've come up with:
Hell Fire Fire Dragon Blue Devils Savage **
these names show up in my story, but I think they're pretty sweet:
Blue Demon Grey Wolf Unquenchable
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Well, I've got three:
Fallen Angel, Vampire, and Killer.
I made those three up for a webstory I'm participating in, as the names of sort of magical/steampunk flying ships.
Please refrain from gravedigging, especially if there is an 11-month gap between posts and it is doubtful that the question even remains to be answered.
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Originally posted by UE_Research & Development: **Please refrain from gravedigging, especially if there is an 11-month gap between posts and it is doubtful that the question even remains to be answered.
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this is grave dug? I don't have anything against that myself, but when one (like me) tends not to look at the dates on posts it's easy to miss the fact that a topic is not a new one. :rolleyes:
Well while we're here, Mantaray, how's about an update?
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I always thought the project was abandoned, because it was impossible to make the water look any good, just solid blue. If this isn't the case, could someone tell me how, as it could be very useful.
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Can you put in Captain Blarneypants and his ship the "S.S. Avast Ye Scurvy Scallywag, ARRRR!" ?
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This wouldn't be a problem for government ships, because the US named them things like The Constitution and The Patriot
I don't believe there was ever a U.S.S. Patriot. There was Chesapeake, Constitution, Adams, Constellation, Congress, President, United States at the time of The War of 1812.
And the US didn't even exist in the 17th century (1600-1699). They were British colonies at this time. Maybe the 19th century though...
btw, if you need any historical information about sailing ships of the 18-19th century, I am fascinated with that period and would be happy to provide any assistance I could.
Now, pirate names...
Queen Anne's Revenge has been suggested a lot. Before Teach captured this ship, it was named the Concord.
Black Pearl Interceptor Dauntless Blanchefleur Aimable Louise Swordfish Wine Dark Sea
Most of the names suggested (i.e. Bloody Death) and whatnot are not names native to the Age of Sail. Back then, everybody spoke better English and Captains seriously thought about their ship's names. I don't think a Captain would be caught dead commanding the "Doomsblade". And don't forget that most pirate ships throughout the ages were galleys. You know, those long rowboats you see in those old Greek battles? Very few pirates had frigates, such as Jack Sparrow and Edward B. Teach (Blackbeard).
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I don't think we need any more pirate names, this thread is a year old.
Originally posted by FluffyWithTeeth: **I don't think we need any more pirate names, this thread is a year old.
Actually, I'm finding the resurrection of this thread extremely useful.
I love Zzap212's 'Aimable Louise' for some reason. Has a nice ring to it.
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I tend to agree that this topic deserves a second look. It's creativity based.
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schooner, yacht, cruiser, yawl, ketch, cutter, sloop
If you were making a plugin about the age of sail (which I briefly toyed around with), do NOT use these ship classes. Schooners were no more than ships who had two coastal sails. Yacht can be applied to any ship. Cruiser is any large military ship. Yawls and Ketches are variations on the schooner, based on where the mizzen mast falls relative to the rudder post. Sloops have various meanings.
The true ship classes of the Age of Sail:
Coastal Rigged (you know, those Marconi rigs, the ones in the marinas today): Cutter: light ship, maybe 40 feet long, carrying a gun or two with a hold Sloop: lighter than a cutter, maybe open-topped Schooner: 2 masted coastal rigged sailing vessel (pretty big, sometimes converted into Man-of-War as corvettes/sloops)
Square Rigged (you know, Christopher Columbus, Horatio Nelson and Horatio Hornblower) Brig: 2 masted vessel commonly mounting a heavy broadside, but with VERY limited range: 4-12 guns Sloop/Corvette: Only called a corvette by the French and landlubbers, these ships were 3-masted sailing vessels with a well ranged broadside (i.e. balance of range and power). 12-22 guns Frigate: Heavier ship, carrying about 200-500 crews, mounting guns from light 12 pounders (28 gun frigates) to heavy 32 pounders (56 gun frigates). 28-56 guns
Ship-of-the-Line: 74: small, staunt, faster than the 1st rate, slower than the frigates, one of the true "powerships". 50-84 guns on TWO decks 100: large, slow clunker: used only for fleet engagements: 84-136 guns
Eh? Shiver me timbers! Ye' be right! 'Vast naming there!
Oh, mrxak... guess we can continue then... 'Vast 'vast naming there!
Hey, you gotta love Lovable Louise, even in Frenchy.
Speaking about this, I would love to see how it's coming along. Once again, if any information of the Age of Sail need be gleaned, I'm here for the gleaning.