Steve McQueen:up: Great Escape and Bullit.....excellent movies with Steve!

John Ford :)

I like his movies.

My father-in-law, Harvey Henderson.

He wasn't in the military or anything, I just like the name. Also, he has a cool mustache.

I always just start a career and then I go back and change the Skipper Name to the "real" name of the skipper for that boat during that period.

Call me a rivet counter but I like it like that ;) Currently I am running a patrol 1943

Commander is Lt.Cdr. J.W. Coe
Boat is USS Skipjack

I even like to add the conning tower stuff, although most boats did not have them...makes me happy though ;)
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/7586/skipjackok8.jpg

A very good page for this is
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/typ...type=Submarine

Well usually I use Peter Blood or Geoffrey Thorpe. Let's see if anyone here knows where those references come from. But my latest name is a little different and there's a bit of story behind it. You see I was on shore leave oh about 3 years ago, met up with this girl a few nights. Let's just say she was rather muscular in the nether regions. Well, I pushed when I should should have pulled, and it was like ramming a brick wall. Long story short (no pun intended!) 3 years later the adverse affects are almost gone, but I cannot resist but use the name...... CAPTAIN HOOK! :lol:

Gee, I hope my Mom doesn't read this! :o

mine's for what i figured i'ld be most of the time, shark bait for getting sunk. hasn't happened as much as i first thought:ping:

in my 3 different careers, i am:

Kaptain Krusty

James T. Kirk

Capt. Jack

I guess I'm the weird one. In SH3 I either use the name Commander gives me or make up one I think is appropriately German-sounding: Bruno Asche was my first kaleun. Once I'm actually playing SH4 I'll probably start with something like Joseph Abernathy, or Michael Allen. Always alphabetical order.

Cp. Jack Aubrey, from the Master & Commander books, best series ever.

SH IV = Ozzy Wasbourn (don't know way ..but i like Ozzy Osbourn..a little bit nuts:lol:)
SH III = Kriegbaum ( das boot )

I use my own name and my boat is always the Paragon. :|\\

When I start a new career, I always name my new captain after the most senior officer on my boat at the end of my last career. Unless of course they are all dead, then I'll use my name usually.

I like these:


Cpt. Eriprando Manovella

Cpt. Cecco Lo Cascio

Cpt. Beniamino Caraffa


They sound funny in my language (I'm from Italy), but I suspect they sound very funny in english too :lol: ...

So I named my cat Skulking Cat:D

Shouldn't that be David E. Jones :D

I named my vertial skipper after me.

USS Devilfish
 

I use my own name for the skipper, since I am the skipper of the boat.

And as far as the name for the boat itself I use the historic name in the game.

I'd like to use the name USS Devilfish, since it is a cool sounding name for a sub.
Does anyone remember "The Winds of War" with Robert Mitchum and Jan Michael Vincent?



/VodkaMike