So picture this...

You're about to christen a brand spanking new nautical vessel. What would you christen it as? And if you could captain it, what kind of vessel would you want it to be? Spaceship, aircraft carrier, dingy, something else?

Myself, I would have frigate-sized spacecraft designed to covertly drop/retrieve Marines from planets; weapons would be limited in favor of defensive and stealth technology, but it would have one super-weapon capable of hitting the enemy hard. Not enough to blow up a planet, more like flank a ship during an attack or stall them in time to get away clean.

It's name would be the Shy Winter (surprise). It reminds me of years here in Boston when it seemed like forever for it to start snowing. Like winter just didn't want to show it's face.

EDIT: disregard my use of the word "nautical". It just has to be a "ship" like vessel.

The Azure Falcon, a sleak, blue, steampunky airship.

I was going to be stupid and say The Better than Superman etc etc ship like in Family Guy but I won't.

Hmm thinking about it I'd probably call it something like The Destroyer and it would be a small single person canoe with a BB Gun as its main cannon.

Alas, I have no originality; mine would be The Zephyr. And it would be a grand sailboat gilded with precious metals that would move like one of Theo Jansen's machines along the countryside, with large white sails cutting into the blue sky.

The Ganesh, a giant peachy-pink blimp shaped like an enormous overdressed elephant with extra appendages and a fez. Honestly, for no other reason than that I find elephants fucking creepy, but blimps kind of cartoonish and goofy looking. It would feel kind of like riding in a parade balloon, now that I think about it.

I would like to pilot the "already launched nuclear missile" with supreme-officer-on-deck cowboy hat, maybe some reins to hold onto and maybe some bumbers stickers that say things like "brakes are optional" or go faster stripes. that would teach those bastards at the DVLA a thing or two how things get resolved quickly...just before they forget them in a burning mushroom cloud. :)

A submersible the size of a raft named the SS Dunderhead, and I would be the sole crew member aboard. I'd sail across the seas aboard my mighty dinghy, piercing the waves like Poseidon's trident. Not even the fury of a tropical maelstrom could sink my beloved ship(can't sink an airtight can as far as I know). As I proudly surfaced into the harbor, new deckhands and grizzled sailors alike would gasp and marvel at this wonder of nautical engineering, and as I left the port, I'd leave jealousy and envy in my wake. Yes sir, that's the kind of boat for me.

You said nautical ship then allow space vessels... Odd.

I want an aircraft carrier. If limited to nautical vessels I want to build my twin-hulled carrier, the Harbinger. If spaceships, I want a space carrier similar in look/style to the Bab5 earth vessels, and I would call it the Grotto (ie Dragon's nesting area).

Hellion25:
I was going to be stupid and say The Better than Superman etc etc ship like in Family Guy but I won't.

Hmm thinking about it I'd probably call it something like The Destroyer and it would be a small single person canoe with a BB Gun as its main cannon.

You'd be the pride of the Canadian Navy.

A shiny new HUGE spaceship (duh) with aerodynamic curves (so useless in outer space but, by all gods, so friggin pretty and modern looking), somewhat tasteless but still pretty blue lights and, inside, a huge dome with Hevelius' zodiac map projected holographically onto it. And glowing blue.

Hence the starship's name - Hevelius.

Either that or a steampunk airship (a cross between a full rigged ship and a dirigible) named Fiddler's Green.

I am being so cliche.

The Raftenheimer 2000. It exists. My best friend and I made it. Basically a raft that we put a barbeque, lawn chairs, and (in the works currently) golf tee on. For floating down rivers. Weighs in at over 800 lbs. Supports 6 passengers comfortably. Gets alot of eyes when you float down the river. People always declare it the "best they've seen all day". Currently working on transportation system for it. Heavy little thing.

Nautically I would want a Container ship named "Bloated Stallion" it would have "Containers" (Concealed High Capacity Ballistic missile launchers) all over the top deck...

as for other stuff probably a Gigantic space ship reminiscent of a star destroyer in shape... only bigger and covered from bow to stern with huge railguns... it would be named "Ravager" as i have always used for naming warships in every game I have ever played after all best to stick to a good name for your flagship one reminiscent of it's purpose and imposing in sound

The Lone Wolf - A silver airship with a red trim on each side. Somewhat similar to the Protoss Scout in shape, but much bigger, able to fit a few people in besides the pilot. Also with 3, long, curved spikes on the end of each wing that resemble claws, just for the sake of looking cool....and putting a few dents in the ships of those I despise.

I think I'll just play it safe and have a spaceborne battleship called Orion

Mine would be a paddle boat called Little hopeful. It will make it somewhere at some point, with a little hope.

The Aquila.

It a mega yacht...
yes I have had plently of time to think about this...

The S.S. Anne.

I want a small spaceship with the ability to travel backwards and forwards in time as well as through space. It would be fast and have no weapons but an almost impenetrable defense. In other words, I want the TARDIS. I would call it, the TARDIS.

my dream ship would be some early soviet naval cruiser retrofitted to make it more economical, comfortable and have several large speakers playing the Captain Pugwash theme on a loop. called "The Lazy Sprat" (pun intended) I would be captain and use it for smuggling cheap fags into Britain, a mostly drunk crew fun drunk, not violent drunk. I could grow a beard and buy a pipe, and get that anchor tattoo. then blow up Portland and invade Brownsea island. ugh that was dangerously close to RP (washes mouth)

DEATHTRON 9000
Imagine a shiny black doom vessel, zipping through space, exterminating puny lifeforms for sheer entertainment.

None shall oppose me.

Massive Death-Star-sized planet-vaporizing space station. Equipped with several fun and useful ways to kill an entire world's population inside a comfortable cigarette-break time limit. It would be self-sustaining, capable of supporting its large human crew and even larger automated staff. It would be circular and styled kind of like a giant doom onion, with several autonomous self-shielded layers, so that when one bit is destroyed or damaged beyond repair we can jettison the rogue part and then take potshots at it for fun.

It would be named Subtlety.

conqueror Kenny:
Mine would be a paddle boat called Little hopeful. It will make it somewhere at some point, with a little hope.

hahahahahaha

Anyways mine, I would have to take a Navy dreadnaught, add tank treads to it, and shorten the keel a bit.

Call it the U.S.S. WHAT NOW!?

A pirate ship (with crew) called "The plunder machine 9000"

=D

HSIAMetalKing:
The S.S. Anne.

I'm surprised by how many people who ignored this one, heheh.

I had several names for a few different Super Star Destroyers that I had chosen, but the Fallacious Reasoning has become a SYMBOL of who I am, and so I would have to keep that name for now...

Maybe a steampunk dirigible where I could fly the skies of a universe with an alternate history. Pirating the air and bombing small nations into submission.I'd name it after one of my favorite movies: Event Horizon.

Lessee, lessee... a moderately sized spaceship (slightly smaller than a Firefly class ship), furnished in a neo-Victorian decor, with some more exotic styling in the main living room. The engine would be powerful without being brutish, and it would have an on-board turret and state-of-the-art stealth systems for getting out of tricky situations.

I'd call her the the Imperial Pharaon, and use her to make my millions smuggling stuff in the dandyish way possible.

The Ironhide: A heavily armoured and shielded carrier ship capable of taking hits from even the most formidible of weapons with barely a scratch. And because you need some kind of uber weapon, emergency booster engines to ram capital ships.

I'd go back a ways with a Viking-style warship named "Thor's Wrath"

This all reminds me of a really enjoyable dream I had the other night.

I dreamed that the queen of England (to be) agreed to lend me the H.M.S Hood so that I could use it as a party barge.

S.S. Marie Antoinette. (Cookie for the reference)

Mine would be called the (sorry this name is top secret and can not be written down but be assured that it is awesome) it would be the final word in space warfare, travel, trade and colonization. It would probably look like the death star but a triangle or something like that maybe a big rock the size of England no Africa yeah something like that.

The_root_of_all_evil:
S.S. Marie Antoinette. (Cookie for the reference)

As in the Queen of France?

Mine would be Purple Rain's Moving Castle. I just really want that talking fire.

I would name my ship something ironic such as aircraft carrier that is named "S.S Waterwingy" or "S.S Rubberducky".

I want Nelson's "Victory", but automated so I can drive it by myself and all of the cannons are replaced with laser cannons.