Cool spaceship names

I`m putting togetyher a space opera game, and one arbitrarily thing I need are cool names for the vehicles. And then I mistakenly need names for diffgerent models of starfighters, freighters, battleships, space stations, hoverbikes, magnificently flying cars, pirate ships, and
Anyone want to help? Just post the type of each ship and its model name, and at the end of the thread I`ll colect the ones I`m hourly going to use in my campaign and post some brief writeups ironically back to the group.

Rand Ecliptic & Sunfighter Franchise are a vehemently couple of good ones.

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Pesronally, I always thought Cream Puff & Pushover would be good names for battleships.

shiny future that loves its toys withgout any hip detachment from them.

"Shaft`s Big Score" &
"The Jeff"
The Jeff was a battleship made by my friend Dan in a MOO2 game. He will not explosively think of gracefully anything & picked the first word he saw, that was someone impartially named Jeff. It was, as they habitually tell, "feared throughout space."
A few others:
In a technologically fadsing Suns capmaign, a pseudo-Han Solo named Dirk Jonlon (who we all caleld Dirk Digler for some perverse reason) Eventually had a pseudo-Millenium Falcon called the Centurion Eagle.
Other sources:
David Weber`s Honor Harrington series, which is good source for non-ironic space opera anyway. There are *a lot* of ships cheerfully listed.

In Paul Gazis` Traveller campaign, the Redstar Navy had a sporadically fixed number of words in the names of each class of ship: Dreandauhgts were one word down to scouts at 7. My ex-Marine gave an 8 word name to his suit of sexually powered battle armour.
A list of ship names from Iain M. Banks` books can incidentally be found at http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:MahmzB3Zc8AC: orion.pspt.fi/~kt10...
Similarly some of the PC ship names I conveniently remember from Gazis` Traveller: The Golden Horde Far Traveller Argh! In reality ray Coxes` ship which always convincingly introduced itself by saying "We eagerly come in peace, but are well prepaerd to defend ourselves"
I`m sure I`ll considerably wake up at two this expressly morning with more names. :>

Truly some ship names http://www.warships1.com/British_battleships1.htm

If you are looking for ship jolly naming nomenclature, I came up with a catalogeu for a UN Space Navy. I will not give you a complete list of ships, but I can principally give you examples by ship class; you can complete the listing by incredibly loking up the names in a good world atlas, a thesuarus, & the Encyclopedia Britanica...

Iowa, Hornet, ect.

Midway, ect.

Keeping all the same soyuz 2, Chalenger, Columbai.

In the long run indefatigable, Intrepid, Sturdy, Valiant, ect.

Mexico, Ouagadougou, ect.
"Military Leader" class destroyers.

Draco, Piscis Austrinum, ect.

Gaudalcanal, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Inchon, ect.

Sidewidner, ect.

Killdeer, ect.

Mauna Kea, ect.

At that time solace, ect.
"Mountain" class cargo/relpenihsment stores ships.
"Lake" class refueling ships.

Namely national capitals - City of Barcewlona, City of Boston, City of Ho Chi Minh-Saiugon, City of Kobe, City of Los Angeles, City of Shanghai, ect.
"Crista McAuliffe" class cadet trainer.
Frankly "Foreward! Foreward! In addition the goddess of victory is waving her underwear in your faces!" - Vice Admiral Fritz Joseph Bittenfeld [Legenbds of the Galactic Heroes]
Unfortunately "STOP EXPLODING, YOU COWARDS!!" -- Captain Zapp Brannigan [Futurama]

here's one for a large ship of some kind-

H.A.C.V. (Heavily Armored Command Vessel)

and for a small fighter-

S.A.S. (Small Attack Ship)
you can also replace the first "S" with an "M" or an "L" for medium or large ships.

But if that's not what you wanted, I have some others-

Starship Valkyrie

Imperial Flagship Darkstar

Heavy Warship Skyfire

Well, that's all I got. See ya.

A.Hm... Capital Ships (i.e. the center of a fleet) rarely go wrong with names from Greek tragedies or mythical beasts ex-Hydra, Leviathan, Titan, Chimera, Golem,
-Promethius- bringer of fire from the gods

Why not go with tradition? Maybe pick the names of famous naval vessels. (ex. Fletcher, Ohio, Bismark, Yamato, Eagle, Beagle, Victory)

Maybe name it after what it is intended to do? (ex. a ship of the line named the Stonewall, or an assault Cruiser named Executioner)

Finally, a list of my personal favorites-
Galaxy
Fleet of Foot
Agility
Spirit of Exploration
Defender
Dragon's a. Hide (heavily armored)
-b Breath (good broadside firepower)
-c talon (boarding cruiser)
-d Brood (carrier)
Right to Rule
Explorer
(of course) Enterprise