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

Onkel Neal · 03-22-09, 02:27 PM

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

) 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 · 03-22-09, 02:43 PM

SS Radiant!

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

Te Kaha · 03-22-09, 02:45 PM

Name it Subsim 1

Sledgehammer427 · 03-22-09, 02:57 PM

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

PS. I call lookout!

Herr_Pete · 03-22-09, 03:03 PM

SS Triumphant
Trinity
Valiant

SS Steve

antikristuseke · 03-22-09, 03:04 PM

Shrubbery

CaptainHaplo · 03-22-09, 03:08 PM

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!

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 · 03-22-09, 03:10 PM

SS Freedom

Hitman · 03-22-09, 03:13 PM

I smell something strange here

...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

Raptor1 · 03-22-09, 03:17 PM

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 · 03-22-09, 03:21 PM

Onkle's Dream

(Mary Celeste

)

Torplexed · 03-22-09, 03:27 PM

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.

Raptor1 · 03-22-09, 03:28 PM

Oh, Oh, I know...

...Das Boot!

Sailor Steve · 03-22-09, 03:30 PM

SS Abraham.

Platapus · 03-22-09, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Oh, Oh, I know...

...Das Boot!

03-22-09, 02:27 PM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	If we managed to buy a diesel sub, what would we name it? 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 ) 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? __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

03-22-09, 02:43 PM	#2
Sledgehammer427 PacWagon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Drinking coffee and staring at trees in Massachusetts Posts: 2,908 Downloads: 287 Uploads: 0	SS Radiant! or some other descriptive name...like British subs! __________________ Cold Waters Voice Crew - Fire Control Officer Cmdr O. Myers - C/O USS Nautilus (SS-168) 114,000 tons sunk - 4 Spec Ops completed V-boat Nutcase - Need supplies? Japanese garrison on a small island in the way? Just give us a call! D4C!

03-22-09, 02:45 PM	#3
Te Kaha Navy Dude Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Austrian landlubber Posts: 178 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 2	Name it Subsim 1 __________________ "E hoa, ka whawhai tonu mātou, Āke! Āke! Āke!" (Friend, we will fight on forever, forever and forever!) Rewi Maniapoto's reply to British calls for surrender, Orakau, 1864

03-22-09, 02:57 PM	#4
Sledgehammer427 PacWagon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Drinking coffee and staring at trees in Massachusetts Posts: 2,908 Downloads: 287 Uploads: 0	like theres going to be more? is there something we should know hugh hef...i mean Neal PS. I call lookout! __________________ Cold Waters Voice Crew - Fire Control Officer Cmdr O. Myers - C/O USS Nautilus (SS-168) 114,000 tons sunk - 4 Spec Ops completed V-boat Nutcase - Need supplies? Japanese garrison on a small island in the way? Just give us a call! D4C!

03-22-09, 03:08 PM	#7
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	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! 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. __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo

03-22-09, 03:03 PM	#5
Herr_Pete Commodore Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Scotland, UK Posts: 623 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	SS Triumphant Trinity Valiant SS Steve

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antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Shrubbery

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Rip Commodore Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Right behind you! Posts: 643 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	SS Freedom

03-22-09, 03:13 PM	#9
Hitman Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 6,109 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 2	I smell something strange here ...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 __________________ One day I will return to sea ...

03-22-09, 03:17 PM	#10
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

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Mush Martin Eternal Patrol Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,398 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Onkle's Dream (Mary Celeste ) __________________ RIP Mush Tutorial

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Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	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.

03-22-09, 03:28 PM	#13
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Oh, Oh, I know... ...Das Boot! __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

03-22-09, 03:30 PM	#14
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	SS Abraham. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo