Have a punderful day

The Odyssey if the suitors were competent…

☀ cross stitch of a cat , which is about 1000 years old !

Here are a few more lovely names:

RMS Tyrrhenia – a passenger liner – 1922

Empire Ken – is there an Empire Barbie too? – a passenger liner – 1928

Happy Entrance – a Tudor warship – 17th century

Great Bark – a Tudor warship – 1512

HMS Bird – survey ship – 1764

HMS Indignant & HMS Griper – Royal Navy warships – 18th/19th centuries

Black Dog & Black Bark – Tudor warships – 1563

HMS Black Joke – a captured slave-trade schooner pressed into anti-slavery patrol – 1827

Bachelor’s Delight – a buccaneer vessel – 17th century

Snappopp – a Swedish privateer – 18th century

Hurly Burly – a British privateer – 1779

Merry Christmas – Richard Shipton’s pirate ship, early 18th century

Happy Delivery – Pirate vessel, early 18th century

In the course of time, some quite funny names have emerged, such as HMS Pickle, HMS Beaver, HMS Black Joke or HMS Sandwich. But there are a few others that I don't want to withhold from you.

Falcon in the Fetterlock, English Warship mid 16th century

Three Ostrich Feathers, English Merchant, mid16th century

Bull, Bear and Horse, English Merchant, early 17th century

Mousenest, English Fireship, mid 17th century

Blade of Wheat, English Merchant, late 17th century

Who's afraid, English Privateer, late 18th century

Sturdy Beggar, Salem Privateer, late 18th century

Terrible, English Privateer, late 18th century

Mouse of the Mountain, Hudson River Steamer, early 19th century

Grumbler and Growler, Salem Privateer, early 19th century

Precious Ridicule, New Orleans schooner, early 19th century

Free Love, Mississippi Barque, early 19th century

Catch me who can, Baltimore Privateer, early 19th century

The Twenty - Sixth Day of October 1812, English Schooner, early 19th century

Go ask Her, Neufundland Schooner, early 19th century

Brown Smith Jones, Maryland Police Boat, late 19th century