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VB6 Aurora => Aurora Suggestions => Topic started by: Steve Walmsley on September 08, 2012, 10:30:29 AM

Title: Names for Merchant Ships
Post by: Steve Walmsley on September 08, 2012, 10:30:29 AM

I know Aurora isn't really short of ship names :) but if you wanted to name your freighters and colony ships individually (as I am now doing in my latest test campaign for five different powers - geek alert!), I just found a great site that lists all real world merchant ships. You can filter by nationality and type.

http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/VesselArchive.html

Steve

Title: Re: Names for Merchant Ships
Post by: Steve Walmsley on September 08, 2012, 10:48:08 AM

Also, it turns out if you sign up for a free account you can track the locations of passenger ships around the globe (if you really want to :))

Steve

Title: Re: Names for Merchant Ships
Post by: waresky on September 10, 2012, 10:13:01 AM

Quote from: Steve Walmsley on September 08, 2012, 10:48:08 AM

Also, it turns out if you sign up for a free account you can track the locations of passenger ships around the globe (if you really want to :))

Steve

U funny Steve:)))..i think who.."A and A" is your:)))...

Title: Re: Names for Merchant Ships
Post by: Blind Sniper on September 10, 2012, 10:36:10 AM

Thanks Steve  :)

I found another site (hxxp: www. fas. org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/names. htm) that explains how the American ships are named, useful for military and merchant vessels if someone is playing with American Empire theme. 

Title: Re: Names for Merchant Ships
Post by: TheDeadlyShoe on September 10, 2012, 03:36:10 PM

I can't seem to get the filters to work. >__<

I went on a Distant Worlds binge recently, it has a neat auto-namer that combines preset words with the name of a major colony etc. in your empire.  So if you had 'Luna' in your empire, it might create ships called "Luna Star", "Luna Explorer", "Luna Adventurer", "Defender of Luna", "Victory at Luna", etc. 

Title: Re: Names for Merchant Ships
Post by: ExChairman on October 23, 2012, 11:17:55 PM

I got a book of all the Swedish merchant losses during WWII if anyone is interested... ::)

Title: Re: Names for Merchant Ships
Post by: ollobrains on October 25, 2012, 05:10:01 AM

more names ae always good