The worst named liners

[Tarn Stephanos]

Which liners had the worst names?

I think contendors would be the Ionic, the Doric, the Cufic, the Ceramic and the Rex.

 

[Jim Kalafus]

Bovic. Limburgia. Thuringia. Tyrhhenia. Hamonic. Noronic. Suffren. Covadonga. Arosa Kulm. Hrvatska. Klek.

Worst: Marine Flasher.

 

[Jim Kalafus]

Even worse: Bled. A Yugoslavian passenger ship, which served 1959-'70.

 

[Randy Bryan Bigham]

Jim, I believe Tarn asked for names of ships, not pharmaceuticals! (Next you'll be telling us there was an SS Acidic or perhaps an RMS Putrid.)

 

[Shelley Dziedzic]

Suffren- what a great name for the current rash of germ-laden cruise ships- and maybe RMS Epidemic and Paragoric for running mates!

 

[Jim Kalafus]

Carabobo. Heredia. Lux. Munamar. Munargo. Agwileon. Comus. Momus. Irwin. Esther Weems. Nacoochee. Ourcq.

 

[Tarn Stephanos]

Thuringia????

That sounds like the name of disease!


Klek??????
Sounds like the name of a character from Star trek.....

There was aliner called "Boris"...
Thats pretty bad too...

 

[Tarn Stephanos]

Plus im tot too keen on the names Ecstacy, Sensation or o~~~~~..
Such names are not quite suited for ocean liners...


Tarn Stephanos

 

[Michael Shetina]

o~~~~~! Tell me you're joking!

 

[Jim Kalafus]

Above is Particularly Grim if paired with The Marine Flasher.

KLEK- had a sister ship: Viseveca

The there was the Bohinj, which began life as the Gouverneur Galopin.

In the Titanic roster, Trautenfels is fairly un-euphonic.

 

[Randy Bryan Bigham]

Viseveca? Wasn't that the name of a character on "Good Times?"

 

[Tarn Stephanos]

There is a ship named o~~~~~..Ill see if i can find out who owns her..
There was also the Vulnavia (which also happened to be the name of Vincent Price's assistant in the Abominable Dr Phibes movies).

I still think the Rex had an awful name- Beautiful ship, but with a dogs name...

Homeric isnt much better...

 

[Tarn Stephanos]

Viseveca? Reminds me of vivisection or vas deferin...

 

[Mark Baber]

Before this goes too far (if it hasn't already), remember, gentlemen, that there are children about.

 

[Alex McLean]

Mark,
Very little about the subject at hand can be brought up on this web site that we do not know about already. ^_^

Must admit though, it is an awful name.
Keep in mind that Rex is Latin for King, although all ships are referred to as 'shes' (except for the Nazi Bismarck), it still does not appeal to me. White Star had some of the worst names ever. One of my friend's nicknames is Nordic (Say very slowly and with a Teutonic accent). Homeric, Ceramic, Coptic, Vedic, Cymric, Runic and all those other ones were never that nice. As I have said time and time again, how about Heroic?