400 Starship Names

Originally compiled by Paul Drye, February 2003

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400 Starship Names
Welcome. This list concentrates on ship names in Terran languages (or Galanglic, if you
wish), on the grounds that automated word generators for Vilani, Vargr, Aslan, and other likely
languages are out there. As of this writing, I recommend James Robinson’s “James's Traveller
Word Generators”, located at:

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jrobin12/travwords.html

Get that tool to spit out a few words in the language you want, and you can name an alien
ship in short order.
Most of the ships on this list are assumed to be traders, but there are separate sections for
warships, scout/science vessels, and yachts. More ship names are possible if you work with the
names below that refer to a specific place (e.g., Lady of Aramis). On Earth it's not unusual to
find several ships with similar names that merely have one place name swapped out and
another swapped in. This is also handy if your campaign is set where the place name I hap-
pened to use is in appropriate (if, for example, the aforementioned Lady of Aramis showed up
in the Solomani Rim, one might wonder how it got so many sectors away from home).
Ready, set, go....

Merchants
A B
Above Board Banasdan Argosy
Adroit Barbican Star
Algorab Baroness Duperre
Alexandrine Bianxing
Alright Already Bittersweet
Amalfi Black Cat's Luck
Amphioxus Black Lotus
Ancient Mariner Bluebottle
Apollo Zero Bold Venture
Arabia Felix Bottom Line
Argo Navis Brass Hind
Arktos
Astarte C
Atalanta Cachalot
Aurora Australis Caledon Dancer
Austral Moon Cardinal Grosbeak
Carrymore
Chanticleer
Childe Harold
Cinquefoil
Coreward Lion

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 Compass Rose G
Confidence Galeota
Contractor Genêt d’Espagne
Cor Caroli Giauzar
Corvid Globular Cluster
Count Meyin Golden Egg
Crane Fly Golden Sun
Croix de Sansterre Gordian Knot
Grace Under Fire
D Great Unknown
Danphe Green Harbour
Daikoku Guilded Lily
Daystar Gulf Jumper
Dead Reckoning Gyousei
Devil's Fifth
Delgado Vincennes H
Diamond Sun Hand Over Fist
Dolphin of Mora Hanging Fire
Dorothy Gail Hangxing
Durable Hanseatic
Dziban Hesperides
High Cotton
E Hikarimono
Ecorcheur Hippogriff
Eglantine Hinotama
Elsinore Hopewell
Eltanin Horn of Plenty
En Passant Hoshikuzu
Enchantress of Space
Enki Clipper I
Entre Nous In The Black
Esterlin Inch of Candle
Euphonia Infinite Horizon
Evergreen Iron Spike
Ittousei
F
Fair Elizabeth J
Falcon Marquis Jackanape
Filthy Lucre Jasmine
Final Option Jeanne d'Arc
Flying Colours Ji Banlun
Fortune
Four Finger Discount
Fraser Red
Friday
From Far Away

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K O
Kajourieki Ocean of Black
Kamsin On Margin
Katydid One Red Cent
Kelso Convoy Open Sky
Kian Outremer
King Of The Hill
P
L Pardon My Vilani
La Bohème Pass The Buck
Lady of Aramis Passable
Lapwing Per Chevron Sable
Larkspur Perroquet
Let's Go Pioneer Moon
Lionheart Piper
Little Dipper Pleione
Longview Prairie Fire
LSP Pax Rulin Pride of Deneb

M Q
Mabataki Quatre Freres
Magdalena Queen Mab
Magpie Quetzal
Make Me Quickstep
Making Hay
Maria Kosmas R
Markab Rabelais’ Dodge
Marvel of Glisten Rack and Manger
Merry Dun Rainbow Ceres
Miaplacidus Raise the Wind
Mimosa Rambler
Mushozoku Rara Avis
Red Sun
N Red Tincture
Nadir Shah Redstone
Nain Rouge Reseda
Nashira Rest-harrow
New Dawn Rift Sounder
New Utopia Rig Marie
No Patron Rock Bottom
Noonday Sun
Nuisance

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S V
Samoyed Various
Sapphire Venturous
Savoyard Vesta of Extolay
Second of Arc Vikingur
Seginus Virago
Seiya
Shake A Leg W
Shaula Wade’s Boat
Sheratan Wages of Sin
Silver Cloud Waldemar’s Way
Skylark Way Away
So Sue Me Weigh Anchor
Solitaire Weissnichtwo
Someday Westward Ho
Spacebourne Pride Windfall
Sparrowhawk Winter Wren
Spinward Pride World Island
Sprig of Broom
Stella Polare X
Stem To Stern Xebec
Sternmetal Eight Xingshi
Superior
Y
T Yellowhammer
Tarazed Yue Laou
Tejat Prior Young Queen
Thousand Credit Ante Yseult
Three Squares
Tigridie Z
Time To Space Zenith
Tintagel Zeuxis
Tokeiza Zincali
Towers Cluster Zwarte Zee
Tradegood
Trailing Venture
Trin Stardust
Tukera Princess

U
Ulysses
Upset Price
Urania
Ursa

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Military Vessels
Active Kederli
Aegis Kestrel
Aeneas Khedive
Agenor Kintaro
Ajax Lesath
Amalfi Loaded For Bear
Amazon Mahrem
Ambuscade Majestic
Anhur Manas
Archon Menelaus
Astabis Patroclus
Audacious Pentesilea
Bellatrix Qiangquan
Bellerophon Rabican
Black Prince Rasalas
Bogatyr Razzia
Brahmastra Renown
Brenhin Resistance
Bulwark Revenge
Caesar Rodomont
Centurion Rubicon
Challenger Saiph
Charlemagne Sarpedon
Cheyenne Sargas
Conqueror Sentinel
Conquest Steadfast
Diomedes Sultan
Epeus Svalin
Eris Swift
Fear Me Tenacious
For Glory Thunderer
Formidable Universal Law
Forte Valiant
Forward Valorous
Hazard Vendetta
Heimdall Victorious
Hermes Voivode
Hinchinbrooke War Lord
Hippolyta Warhawk
Hussar Xanthos
Illustrious Yeth Hound
Imperator Zulfagar
Juusei

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Scout/Science Vessels
Almansur Gnosis
Alcmaeon Gunter Chain
Anaxagoras Haeckel
Ansing Explorer Heaviside
Aristarchus Henry Draper
Barnard Hogenburg
Bonestell Ibn Batuta
Bougainwille Jan Jansson
Bowditch Kim Chong-Ho
Cabeza de Vaca La Condamine
Cape Bojador Mungo Park
Cassini Ortelius
Cayley Piri Reis
Columba Ptolemy
Cousteau Sagacity
Cuvier Saxton
De L’Isle Sextant
Dicuil Theodolite
Eratosthenes Tanxianzhe
Fabricius Van den Keere
Flammarion Void Ranger
Flamsteed Von Humboldt
Fresnel Willem Blaeu
Gassendi Wye Level
Gemma Frisius Zhu Xi

Yachts
Aia Sophia Majestic
Alladin’s Cave Panorama
Amalthea Pushan
Andvaranaut Raffles
Conversation Piece Saturnia Regna
Crystal Spheres Silver Star
Crown Jewel Takara Bune
Ebisu Timon of Athens
Golden Promise Walkabout
Helve and Hatchet Xanadu
Idle Lake
Inamorata
Jubilee
Kohinoor
Labarum