If we managed to buy a diesel sub, what would we name it?

[Onkel Neal]

Hypothetical question: Say, a couple years ago I shorted a large quantity of a particular stock (even more interestingly, I didn't realize I did it at the time, new stock trader software, not familiar with it, etc :doh:) and now I come into some serious $$...and I decide to act on my childhood fantasy and along with a Belgian venture capitalist, I buy a reasonably sea-worthy Type 209 diesel sub from Venezuela to refurbish as an ocean-going "cruise ship" for submarine enthusiasts.

Anyway, we cannot get it to port in the US but we have a nice little cove in Puerto Caldera... anyway-anyway... if all this actually was going to happen, what would be a good name for the sub?

[Sledgehammer427]

SS Radiant!

or some other descriptive name...like British subs!:D

[Te Kaha]

Name it Subsim 1

[Sledgehammer427]

like theres going to be more?
is there something we should know hugh hef...i mean Neal :D

PS. I call lookout!

[Herr_Pete]

SS Triumphant
Trinity
Valiant

SS Steve

[antikristuseke]

Shrubbery

[CaptainHaplo]

So many possibilities. However - if that were to actually happen for me - I could only call her one thing.....

HOME

As in I am moving in and saying the heck with property taxes and everything else except for a bill for diesel fuel! :up:

If you were doing this as a business (thus the venture capitalist being involved) - I would call her something like the:
SS (For SUB SIM) Experience That way you could offer your customers just a taste of what reality is like for those that serve and protect on such vessels.

[Rip]

SS Freedom

[Hitman]

I smell something strange here :D

...but back on topic, I'd choose Nautilus for it, I alwasy wanted to have a sub with that name since my boyhood when I first readed 20.000 L. under the Sea:salute:

[Raptor1]

SSS Neal I the Great (SS-1), named after Neal the First, founder of the mighty Empire of Subsim

It shall be the flagship of the Imperial Subsim Navy, which will dominate the waves

[Mush Martin]

Onkle's Dream :up:


(Mary Celeste :arrgh!:)

[Torplexed]

I wouldn't know what to name it, but I know what would be blaring from the sound system.

Shes real fine my 209,
Shes real fine my 209,
My 209

Well I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes,
(giddy up giddy up 209)
For I knew there would be a time,
(giddy up giddy up 209)

You get the drift. :up:

[Raptor1]

Oh, Oh, I know...


...Das Boot!

[Sailor Steve]

SS Abraham.

[Platapus]

Oh, Oh, I know...


...Das Boot!
:yeah:

[Tchocky]

The Screen Door

but seriously, I think Steve's onto a good 'un

[TarJak]

Nice tribute Steve. Can't think of anything better. I'm only coming along if we get real torpedoes to play with!:D

[Torplexed]

SS Abraham.

Poetic choice. :salute:

[I am Back]

SS Freedom

Thats what a submarine will give to me

[kiwi_2005]

SS Conan. :DL

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Yellow Submarine!!!

[Skybird]

I go with Cook's choice:
"SCS Endeavour" :)

[Letum]

SS Holy **** I bought a Submarine.

[ryoga_77]

Ss endeavour

[nikimcbee]

I say we call it Tim.

[nikimcbee]

We could get subway to sponsor us and call it the BLT.:haha:

[Torplexed]

We could get subway to sponsor us and call it the BLT.:haha:

Yeah, but they'd want to make their spokesman Jared the captain and he gives me the creeps. Who wants to be underwater with this guy when he loses the fat pants?

http://thingsfatpeoplehate.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/subway_jared.jpg

[Raptor1]

Yellow Submarine!!!

Do you realize how expensive it will be the paint the 209 to match the name? I say we keep it whatever color of rust it is

[Oberon]

Definately the SS Abraham :up:

[Nisgeis]

Snorky.

[Digital_Trucker]

SS Minnow:D

[MorganThePirate]

Rasher:arrgh!:

[SeaWolf U-57]

SS Silent Cowboy..

SS Moderator...

SS GreyWolf...

SS SeaWolf...

[Task Force]

ss Weeeeee.

SS ALLLLLARM!!!

SS Stevens

SS Rustbucket...

[UnderseaLcpl]

U-1337

[Task Force]

U 45.:D

[A Very Super Market]

U-5318008

:d

[Awful Smutje]

Daddy's Toy :03:

[chanbasti]

i like SS Endeavor. Nautilus is good as well.

personal fav would be "SS Superior" with "SS" standing for SubSim.

if this sub were to be bought could i get a ride?

[owner20071963]

SS-Enterprise
Go where no one has gone before,
Grab Scotty for the Engine room,
Sir? Shes a going as fast as A-Ken Push Her,
9 Knottys Capt,I Cudda try n git a 10,:ahoy:
Or that Guy with the Weird Ears,
Who can come back to Life,
Spock,Useful decoy he would be :gulp:
Or SS-EasterEgg
As only 1 has been found on GWX 3.0 so far :arrgh!:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Spock,Useful decoy he would be

Oi! :P

SS Enterprise is a cool idea though :D "Damnit Neal, I'm a moderator, not a helmsman!"


SS Texas
SS Boxxy
SS Dauntless
SS Rick Astley
Metal Gear SS
SS Waffle


Whichever name you choose, it would have to have parts named after crewmates we have cherished and lost here at Subsim.

[Torplexed]

SS Rick Astley

Admiral Hyman Rickroller would be proud. :dead:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Finely Mine.

At last.

Pinch Me.

Is It Real.

Great Forum.

A Stretch.

Believe It.

Balz 1

Got Balz.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Finely Mine.

At last.

Pinch Me.

Is It Real.

Great Forum.

A Stretch.

Believe It.

Balz 1

Got Balz.

http://www.surgeoncommodore.co.uk/images/Media/You-Tube/Rocket-Man-Shatner.jpg

Sorry, just reminded me of Rocket Man :haha:

[Rilder]

SSF(Sub Sim Flagship/Forum) Stevens

SSF Who forgot to close the hatch!!1!!1!

SSF Not Armed!

SSF Somalia (then go pirating in it)

[stabiz]

SS (although a bit politically incorrect :rotfl:)
SS Nautilus

[sunvalleyslim]

SS BERNARD.............:haha::haha::haha:

[Rip]

Ss "no ma'am"

[richardphat]

SS Subsim!

[Rockstar]

SS VASA

SS SCUTTLEBUTT

SS SNEAKY PETE

SS FIRE ONE

SS WHALE BAIT

SS IRON MAIDEN

SS THE SECRET WEAPON

SS MODERATOR (SS a.k.a. Subsim Sim)

SS FODDER


.

[mookiemookie]

SS Godd*mn Escort DDs Sunk Me Again

Oh wait...that's my current boat in SH3 :88)

[ekempey]

M/V-SS Samuel Dealy


or

M/V-SS Richard O'Kane

[Sledgehammer427]

SS Godd*mn Escort DDs Sunk Me Again



rotflolmao

[Kimmy]

SS Leaky Boot :haha:

[Max2147]

SS Planebait

SS Dud Torpedo

SS Not so Silent Hunter

SS Ramming Speed

SS Ash Can Target Practice

[Iceman]

SS Subsim!
S.S.S.
Not sure what I have heard you called before once Neal...

SS Okneal?

or SS Badmuthafuker :)

[bookworm_020]

SS Rust bucket

SS Captain

SS S (Think of what the quick alert morse code was for hostile sub)

SS Damm The Torpedo's!

SS Kremer

I'll gladly be a member of the crew, just don't remove the torpedo tubes yet!:arrgh!:

[AngronIsAngry]

SS Rust Bucket
SS Tin Can

SS Searail
Ever played SH on a laptop while riding a train? The air is hot and stale, space is confined, you'd wish for everybody to just be silent and everything is shaking while you try to pass the time with playing SH4. Now that is a realism setting that doesn't come with the box or mods!

SS HaHa (with Simpson's Nelson Muntz as Emblem)
SS "You Should See My Other Joyride"
SS Sea Server
SS Realism
SS Dreamer
SS Noisy
SS Dud
SS Depth Charge Magnet
SS Deep Runner
SS Bragger

SS "The Wife Made Me Choose"

[U-104]

SS BERNARD.............:haha::haha::haha:

here here!!!:yeah::haha::haha:

[Etienne]

Well, if oyu bought your own personnal submarine, you need to follow the tradition of James Bond villain and name it after either yourself or your company.

So either SUBSIM 1 (ALL CAPS MAKES IT COOLER) or NEAL STEVENS 1.

But then, if you're going to do that, you might as well go the full length and get yourself a cool villain name, and name the sub according to that. Cause seriously, secret Carribbean Cove and private submarine? Dude's up to no good. The AWESOME kind of no good.

You also need a "My other sub's a Kilo" bumper sticker. And fuzzy dices.

[Onkel Neal]

Man, you guys aren't giving me much to work with here :O:

All aboard the USS Dud?

[FIREWALL]

S.S. PIPE DREAM :har:

[UnderseaLcpl]

Man, you guys aren't giving me much to work with here :O:

All aboard the USS Dud?

What's wrong with U-1337? It works on so many levels.:DL


Let me ask you this then; what kind of name would you like? Give me a short description of what you want people to feel when they look at the sub and the name, and I'll do my best to give you a name.


edit, btw, AVSM's suggestion is pretty freakin' awesome.

[Etienne]

You can alway fall back on the currently in fashion method of naming civillian ship:

(Company name) + (EPIC WORD)

For example:

Subsim Valor
Subsim Courage
Subsim Legend
Subsim Pegasus
Subsim Explorer
Subsim Eternal
Subsim Saga
Subsim Viking

And so on.

I should probably put in a good word for S.S MORE POWERFULL THAN SUPERMAN, BATMAN AND THE INCREDIBLE HULK PUT TOGETHER. It's simply a classic.

[UnderseaLcpl]

I should probably put in a good word for S.S MORE POWERFULL THAN SUPERMAN, BATMAN AND THE INCREDIBLE HULK PUT TOGETHER. It's simply a classic.

I was wondering how long it would be before someone said that:DL

[Etienne]

Are you critiqueing my originality?

How's SS FLAME WAR ? :rotfl:

[CaptainHaplo]

SS Lifelong Dream

SS 1029x

SS Time Compression (As in - we don't need no stinking Time Compression!)

SS DID

Edit - if you want something humourous like dud - how about SS Turn of the Bilge.... More than one Sub Captain ground his teeth at that message.

[Tribesman]

SS Unsinkable II

[StdDev]

SS Buckhole

SS wetdream

[melendir]

Ss esses :O:

[McBeck]

"Titanic" :D

Now wait...."Neil Stevens"

"The Beck"

"Das Boot" rules!!

[AVGWarhawk]

SS Hole in the Water

[Thomen]

Sticking with the 'tradition'..
Challenger
Nautilus (was brought already I think)
Argonaut
Dolphin
Turtle
Hunley

[martes86]

SS Atlantis
SS Prometheus
SS Daedalus
SS Oddisey
SS Apollo
SS Phoenix

¿Familiar to anyone?:rock:

[chanbasti]

i like SS Esses. but you need to give us some idea of what kinda name you want - funny, or serious.

[Wolfehunter]

You could name your sub after your wife and maybe she will forgive you for the investment. :woot:

If your married that is.. :D

What could you do with a sub..?

I always wondered if I had the cash, I would invite visitors to learn what subs are all about. She would have a minimum experienced crew. These people would have a chance to experience how it was back in the wwII era. Visitors would get basic training and then they would be taken out to the ocean to do what others have done in the past. But this time is for fun and not for real warfare. A few weeks in the ocean to target ships learn about how subs work.. Some dives that can make a man crap themselves hehehe. But nothing too crazy or dangerous.

The main crew would keep thing running. Visitors would do the rest. Each would have to rotate there responsibilities for the few weeks.

Like I said if I had money to support such an operation. :hmmm:

Nice dream... But now back to reality I need to be sinking ship in SH3.:03:

[Oberon]

SS Chuck Norris? :o

[chanbasti]

so do you actually have this belgian dude, the money, and is hugo chavez giving you the sub?

[martes86]

[...] is hugo chavez giving you the sub?

He might if Neal just tells him to shut up. :rotfl:

[joeljansson]

SS Bernard :D:yep:

[TheDarkWraith]

as an ex-Nuclear Engineer for the Navy and a surface guy, the only sub I would've ever set foot on if I had the chance was NR-1. Most have probably never heard of this sub before - it's a research submarine for the Navy. So a suggestion for Neal would be: NS-1

[Sailor Steve]

Now wait...."Neil Stevens"
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!! Not you, McBick!:damn:

There goes Copenhagen!
:rotfl:

[Rockstar]

ss minor threat

ss hiatus

ss deep six

ss missle magnet




.

[Vikinger]

SS Sinkalot

or

The Bucket.

:O:

[ajrimmer42]

SS Indefatigable
SS Dauntless
SS Babe Magnet :haha:
SS Tin Can

Or the ultimate memorial...

SS LeoVampire :salute:

[Onkel Neal]

No, we're not naming it after me :dead:

I was thinking more along the lines of

SS Majestic
SS Imperial
SS Destiny

that kinda crap...

although SS Leaky Boot sure has a ring :har:

[Onkel Neal]

You can alway fall back on the currently in fashion method of naming civillian ship:

(Company name) + (EPIC WORD)

For example:

Subsim Valor
Subsim Courage
Subsim Legend
Subsim Pegasus
Subsim Explorer
Subsim Eternal
Subsim Saga
Subsim Viking

And so on.

I should probably put in a good word for S.S MORE POWERFULL THAN SUPERMAN, BATMAN AND THE INCREDIBLE HULK PUT TOGETHER. It's simply a classic.

Subsim Legend, I likes that. :)

[Onkel Neal]

You could name your sub after your wife and maybe she will forgive you for the investment. :woot:

If your married that is.. :D





If I was married, you think I could get away with this?? :O:

[Etienne]

If I was married, you think I could get away with this?? :O:

Well, you might, but when the dust settle you'd find yourself the proud owner of half a submarine :-D

[punkmaster98]

SS Virgil

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

SS Stingray like from "Down Periscope"! Its really USS but I don't think you can name a civiy sub USS Stingray.

[Raptor1]

Can you even have a Civilian Type 209? I don't think they go around letting people drive warships just like that...

[chanbasti]

so are you actually going to buy this sub?

[Skybird]

In remembrance of the glory days of my youth and the very first submarine novel I have ever read:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2294/victorappletontomswiftb.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=victorappletontomswiftb.jpg)

I suggest "SS Seeblitz", the name of the sub in that book ! :D

[Chad]

I don't have any ideas as for a name for the sub, nor no idea how much one would cost, but I do have an idea.

If the funds are sufficient enough, or lets just say that money isn't a factor, maybe you could hire a team and raise up an Operation Deadlight boat.

http://www.uboat.net/fates/deadlight_list.htm

Here's a list, quickly looking through it, I think either a type VII-C, such as U-245 would suffice our craving for a sub.

-------

Of course, if you really wanted something historic, remember the three subs that were found off the Turkish coast, U-19, U-20, and U-23? You could have one of these raised, probably for cheaper because in shallower water, and Otto Kretschmer himself commanded U-23. Talk about history!

It's also said that these three boats were scuttled, and, according to an interview found here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1577456/Adolf-Hitlers-lost-fleet-found-in-Black-Sea.html

these boats might be "a significant find because these U-boats were all scuttled, so they should be intact, like a sealed tube. They are unique survivors of the war.""

[Kapitan_Phillips]

SS Chuck Norris? :o

SS Chuck Norris doesnt blow ballast, he scares the water out.

[Von Hinten]

No, we're not naming it after me :dead:

I was thinking more along the lines of

SS Majestic
SS Imperial
SS Destiny

that kinda crap...

although SS Leaky Boot sure has a ring :har:

Please do us over here in Europe a favor and name it SS Metric ... :salute:

[geetrue]

SS Nasty ... How does that sound?

Spend a few years on the boats and that's what they become. I only went six weeks without a shower in the Gulf of Alaska on the USS Salmon SS-573, but some of them went a lot longer than I did till we hit San Francisco.

What do you plan on doing with this, wink, wink, :hmmm: fictional type209 diesel submarine anyway, Neal?

[Von Hinten]

What do you plan on doing with this, wink, wink, :hmmm: fictional type209 diesel submarine anyway, Neal?

I can imagine us standing around somewhere in Denmark later on this year wondering where the heck our trusted Onkel is when a lot of bubbles all of a sudden make an end to that wondering and some illusive sub will come up, pop the hatch and some Texan jumps out. :DL

[Mush Martin]

Lockwood Cruise Lines....SS WaaAAhOOOOOO

[edjcox]

SS Silent Sword:yep:

[Otto Heinzmeir]

Intrepid

[Ivan Putski]

SS Empty Wallet.

[Arclight]

SS Memorial
SS Tribute
SS Remembrance
etc, something to indicate it's purpose; for vets and fans.

SS Past's Pride
SS Days Gone By
SS Nostalgia

:hmmm:

SS Styx / SS Acheron :arrgh!:

[TDK1044]

Abraham. I think it would be a nice mark of respect.

[longam]

SS Mystic Maiden
SS Fille Mystique

[Kapitan_Phillips]

SS Prochnow, perhaps. Maybe we could get Jurgen to come smash the bottle on the hull and give the first ALAAAAARM :D

[CaptainHaplo]

I wonder if Neal drinks at all... I can see it now - as most every good sailor has done in a time honored tradition, he ties one on - then looks at us all at a subsim meet and goes:

"Dude - wheres my submarine" before falling over unconscious....

[XLjedi]

My wife would call it the: "U-bot-what!"

I'd call it the: "HMS Principal" (plus interest)
....or maybe: "U-401K"

[Torplexed]

I say we paint it green and call it....

http://pyxis.homestead.com/SubLime.jpg
http://neptoon.homestead.com/Sublime.jpg

[Dowly]

I say we paint it green and call it....

http://neptoon.homestead.com/Sublime.jpg

:har:

[ajrimmer42]

I say we paint it green and call it....

http://neptoon.homestead.com/Sublime.jpg


Oh how I lol'd. :haha::har:

[Diopos]

Great posts, alot of laughs and some good names proposed, guys. :up:

Now if Neal ever got his sub it would be the end of long voyage (starting from a teenage hobby etc etc). An analogue would be the return of Ulysses to his final destination after a whole Odyssey. Call it:

Ithaca

[Kapitan_Phillips]

SS Arete, after the Greek goddess of virtue, excellence, goodness and valour perhaps :DL

[shotbywolf]

I say name her SS hunley's dream in honor of the first successful combat submarine and her dead crew

[Wolferz]

What da heck, I'll play...

SS The Bilge:03: or just SS BILGE


SS KiWI
Hey! where did my money go?

[STEED]

https://supportcco.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/redalert1.gif

Zombie thread back from the grave! :huh:

[Tchocky]

While we're talking about naval nomenclature, shouldn't this forum be renamed Admiral Topics?

[Platapus]

While we're talking about naval nomenclature, shouldn't this forum be renamed Admiral Topics?

There is nothing admirable about some of the posts. :D

[Tchocky]

It wouldn't be the same without them, Platapus!

[Garion]

Call it Bob, then we could take turns bobbing about on the ocean. :woot:

I'll get my coat :arrgh!:

Cheers
Gary

[Aktungbby]

Well the only two, out of 61 total, type 209 subs owned (per the OP) by the Venezuelan Navy were the 'Sabalo' Class variants of the type 209. One is the S31 Sabalo http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bqioQ8Ant40/TUU90g1h3gI/AAAAAAAAEpE/B595xA7qIRc/s1600/021209_submarino.jpg and the other the S-32 Caribe. The USS Baleo Class Sabalo, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/USS_Sabalo%3B0830204.jpg/300px-USS_Sabalo%3B0830204.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Sabalo;0830204.jpg) named for a silvery game fish of the herring group, was sunk as a target ship in 1973.:wah: Since we are all 'gaming Herrs' in our own right and the name is good in even the US Navy...simply SUBSIM SABALO :yeah:

[Rockstar]

"After Me", get it? Its named 'after me'. :har::har::har::o

[Mr Quatro]

Name it: "Can you see me now" :woot:

[Torplexed]

I'm beginning to think we should call resurrected threads, "Hunleys". They get dredged up from the bottom mud after a long interval of time. The mortal remains of long departed forum members inside are briefly seen again. Then we put the thread back on display before something else attracts our attention and it sinks into obscurity once more.

[Schroeder]

I'm beginning to think we should call resurrected threads, "Hunleys". They get dredged up from the bottom mud after a long interval of time. The mortal remains of long departed forum members inside are briefly seen again. Then we put the thread back on display before something else attracts our attention and it sinks into obscurity once more.
^:yeah:

[ExFishermanBob]

What! No Ian M Banks fans?



No More Mr Nice Guy
Just Read The Instructions
What Are The Civilian Applications?

Attitude Adjuster

Ethics Gradient

Funny, It Worked Last Time...

Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave
No One Knows What The Dead Think



and my favourite,


Me, I'm Counting

[Onkel Neal]

While we're talking about naval nomenclature, shouldn't this forum be renamed Admiral Topics?

Maybe Admirable Topics? :O:


Originally Posted by Torplexed
I'm beginning to think we should call resurrected threads, "Hunleys". They get dredged up from the bottom mud after a long interval of time. The mortal remains of long departed forum members inside are briefly seen again. Then we put the thread back on display before something else attracts our attention and it sinks into obscurity once more.

Works for me :)

I always enjoyed zombie threads, myself. Kinda nostalgic.

[Stealhead]

SS Fuzzy Dunlop

[Jeff-Groves]

Name it R-U-Serious
Cause when you tell people you own a sub that's what they're gonna say.
Then you can say Yes! that's it's name! How'd you know?
:har:

[Harvs]

SS Downunder

[Torplexed]

SS Downunder

I'm surprised there isn't an Aussie sub by that name already. :O:

[Harvs]

Maybe they will name one of our new subs that if we ever get them :up:

[Jimbuna]

I'm surprised there isn't an Aussie sub by that name already. :O:

The Collins Class have historically faced problems in maintaining sufficient operational crew levels to have anyone choose a name :O:

[Eichhörnchen]

How about Egbert? I had a friend called Egbert: his sister couldn't keep her hands off me (we called her "Egbert's sister" because no-one knew her name). think I told you all this before didn't I?