Names of Famous Traders

[ravells]

Apart from the Empress Marava and the Free Trader Beowulf can anyone think of any other OTU Traveller trading ships' names?

I need them for a game I'm playing...and I can onl think of those two obvious ones!

 

[agorski]

Most of these are from non-canonical sources:

Sprinter fast freighter - Encounters in the Phoenix Quadrant
Fedora merchant - Encounters in the Ventura Quadrant
Leander modular cargo ship - ISCV Leander
Girl merchant - Gryphon #4
Avian far trader - Merchants and Merchandise
Heyan Rose freight tractor - IISS Ship Files
Maru merchant - Adventure Class Ships Vol. 1
Star armored merchant - High Passage #3
Alexandria free trader - Adventure Class Ships Vol. 2
Trader provincial transport - Merchant Class Ships
Triad merchant - "
Magnadon provincial merchant - "
Seeker armored merchant - "
Iris armored packet - "
March Harrier subsidized merchant - The Traveller Adventure
Dakaar freighter - The Drenslaar Quest
Silver Wolf subsidized merchant - White Dwarf #65
Ghent subsidized merchant - The Spinward Marches Campaign
Mora freighter - "
Prosperity freighter - Alien Realms
Providence bulk cargo carrier - Letters of Marque
Nymph provincial merchant - "

I've left out the unpronounceable non-human ships.

March Harrier is the only famous one.

 

[ravells]

Thanks agorski! Sorry I wasn't clearer, I was thinking of the names (call signs, I guess) rather than the ship types.

Am I right in thinking that you are listing ship types (except for the March Harrier - thanks for that one, it's going in - to replace 'the Critical Fumble').

 

[agorski]

Most of them are ship class names, although the first ship in a class usually has that name. The March Harrier is an example of the March class, I believe, so you can riff on the class names and generate related specific ship names.

 

[ravells]

Ah cool! Thanks so Jayhawk was actually the name of a famous Far Trader? How on earth did you get that list up? Thank you so much for taking the time to compile it!

 

[agorski]

How on earth did you get that list up? Thank you so much for taking the time to compile it!

I already had a comprehensive list to scan through:

Ships of the Third Imperium

 

[ravells]

Ohh very nice!

 

[CosmicGamer]

If you are looking for ship names

List of Pilgrim Ship names from the 1600's
http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shiplistalpha.htm

Is Traveller an alternate universe or is real earth history part of Traveller OTU?

 

[Timerover51]

There is the Empress Nicholle, operated by Jamison Factors.
The Long Shot from the Argon Gambit Adventure.
The Mudshark and the Shaarin Challenger from the Chamax Plague.
The Scotian Huntress from Night of Conquest.
The Regent Arbellatra from the Memory Alpha short adventure.
The Gyro Cadiz from Twilight's Peak.

And if you are looking for Real World trading ship names, I have quite a few those.

 

[ravells]

No thanks....just OTU ones, those are great thanks! I have enough now!

 

[Vladika]

Let's not forget Leviathan Merchant Cruiser 1800