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To be clear, the U.K. Govt website [1] allows people to submit suggestions, and the NERC are not obliged to use the highest ranking suggestion. Although personally I liked 'what iceberg' as a name

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[1] http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2016/10-ship-naming/

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There were actually some hilarious suggestions on Reddit (not sure if they're all actual submissions) like Usain Boat, Ice Ice Baby, Boatimus Prime, Notitanic, Boats by Dre or Pier Pressure.

The company that does the maintenance on the waterfront and harbour near where I live has a small barge called Pier Pressure.

My old university town of Aberystwyth has a club called Pier Pressure which, rather pleasingly, is on a pier.

> Although personally I liked 'what iceberg' as a name

That's a very Culture ship name.

Banks' father was in the Royal Navy and he grew up in North Queensferry right next to the Forth Bridge and the Rosyth naval base - pretty sure that influenced his love of really big things and Ships With Cool Names - the RN being rather good at the latter and there are few bridges with the visual impact of the former.

I was musing on a Culture-type name last night, and came up with;

Anticipation Of A New Iceberg's Arrival, The

They See Me Trawling...

Ice, Ice Baby

"Arbitrary" might be good as it collects snowflakes as a hobby.

Pillar of Autumn is one of the runner-up votes, and it is widely speculated that the original Halo was heavily influenced by the Culture books. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html

That doesn't have the classic "lack of gravitas" of Culture ship-naming conventions though. It reads more like a Morthanveld or Zihdren-Remnanter ship name. Unless there's a joke I'm missing in there.

I have no interest in boating, but I dream of one day buying a boat just so I can name it Ultimate Ship II.

nice. I'm going to call mine "Real Hackers Ship".

That's wonderful. I think you need two: Real Hackers Ship and Real Hackers' Ship.

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