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"The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien (1979) [48] Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. [49] The name was spelled with a y in the Beast Wars video game and in the DVD box set.
USS Columbia – aircraft carrier (Seven former, one current, and one future US Navy ships share that name, none of them an aircraft carrier) Reduktor – Soviet intelligence ship; Final Flight, 1988 USS United States – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (A US Navy aircraft carrier was to have had that name, but the ship was cancelled.) America, 2001
"Nasty Nick" – USS Nicholas, name given by crew due to the proclivity of the ship's AC units to break down in hot weather. "Nelly" – HMS Nelson – also "Nelsol" – from fleet oilers with names ending in "ol" that the Nelson class looked similar to in silhouette. "Niffy Jane" – HMS Iphigenia "NO Boat" – USS New Orleans
Ship names comprises all articles relating to the naming of ships, as opposed to specific vessels. Articles on names attached to multiple vessels as well as those ...
I can sort-of see the rationale for the title, but it still seems misleading; the links are to ship articles, some of which have to be disambiguated because there are multiple ships of the same name, so the list is really about the ships and not, say, the origins of their names. Stan 04:07 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
An article about a ship not known to have a prefix should use only the ship's name, if that name is unambiguous: Niña Since the optional prefix is, in fact, optional , it may be omitted for ships with unambiguous names even when common prefixes (e.g. MS or MV) are sometimes used for them in other sources:
Famous Elf Names . Buddy (from Elf). Dobby (from Harry Potter). Link (from The Legend of Zelda). Legolas (from The Lord of the Rings). Elfo (from Disenchanted). Honeythorn Gump (from Legend ...
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [ 1 ] although it does not include early vessels.