The DisplayName is used by the Mission Editor to identify the ship. If you change the DisplayName you'll suffer CTDs as the SH3 engine is looking for the DisplayName, not the name in EnglishNames.cfg.
This was a hard won piece of info - when I created my VonDos' mod I had the bright idea of changing the DisplayName so I didn't then have to change any of the three ...Names.cfg files. Unfortunately I'd already scripted the ships and I then spent a week or so chasing CTDs until I changed the DisplayName back and the CTDs stopped.
CTDs happen during loading with this particular problem so I'd discount it from causing the CTD you're trying to chase down.
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