Salvage Ship Name Generator

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Generate salvage ship names for sci-fi games, tabletop campaigns and stories: scavenger names like Magpie and Patient Vulture, gallows humor like Last Rites and Your Mayday Our Payday, legal jokes like Lien Holder, and working hulls like Brannigan Reclaimer 4 and Scrap Iron Annie.

About salvage ship names

A salvage ship earns its living from other ships' worst days, and its name usually admits it. The 1,000 names here are for wreckers, scrapper tugs and deep-recovery boats, mostly in space with a share for the sea. The tone is worn, wry and hard-working: scavenger names such as Magpie, Patient Vulture and Hermit Crab, gallows humor such as Last Rites and Your Mayday Our Payday, and paperwork jokes such as Lien Holder, Prior Claim and Clear Title.

The legal names have a real root. Marine salvage is traditionally done on a no cure, no pay basis: the salvor is paid only if something is saved, and the reward is a share of its value. That is why No Cure No Pay, Open Form and Award Pending suit a ship whose crew reads contracts as closely as charts.

The rest of the list follows the ways working boats get named. There are company hulls with a number (Brannigan Reclaimer 4), strength names in the tug tradition (Atlas Minor, Samson Unshorn), family boats (Scrap Iron Annie, Dad's Pension), diver and undertaker names (Bell Diver, Sexton), translated alien scrapper names, and a small share of real sea salvage tugs such as Zwarte Zee, Turmoil and Foundation Franklin.

How to choose salvage ship names

  • Decide how the crew sees the job. A crew that is proud of it takes a plain working name (Iron Shoulder, Oduya Salvor 12), a crew that jokes about it takes Still Warm or Rest in Pieces, and a crew that feels the weight takes Sexton or Pallbearer.
  • Short names work on the radio. Magpie, Grapnel and Dibs are easy to hail. Keep a long one, such as Check for Survivors Then Check for Copper, for a ship whose crew shortens it to a nickname.
  • Match the name to the work. A deep-recovery boat suits Bell Diver or Crush Depth, a breaker suits Plasma Lance or Shear Press, and a tow tug suits Atlas Minor or Dead Lift.
  • For a fleet, use the company-and-number pattern and change only the number, then give one old hull a nickname the crew uses instead, such as Dirty Gertie or Mostly Welds.
  • At the game table, let the name carry a hook: Prior Claim hints at a rival, Owner Unknown at a mystery, and Paid Off in Full at a debt the captain still talks about.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good name for a salvage ship?

Good salvage ship names sound used and a little amused. Try Magpie, Patient Vulture, Last Rites, Lien Holder, Bottom Feeder or The Long Haul Back. For a plainer working boat, a firm name and a hull number such as Oduya Salvor 12 does the job.

Are these names for spaceships or for ships at sea?

Most are written for space salvage: wreckers, scrapper tugs and recovery boats that work debris fields and dead hulls. A share comes from the sea, with diving terms like Wet Bell and Lift Bag and tug-style names like Cornishman and Noordzee. Much of the list works in either setting.

Are any of the names real ships?

A small share are real salvage tugs and salvage ships, for example Zwarte Zee, Seefalke, Turmoil, Foundation Franklin, Wolraad Woltemade and USS Grapple. The rest are written in the style of working boats, and some of them may well be painted on a real hull somewhere.

What does No Cure No Pay mean?

It is the traditional basis of marine salvage: the salvor is paid only if the ship or cargo is saved, and the payment is a share of what was saved. On the list it sits with other contract and claim names such as Open Form, Salvor in Possession and Award Pending.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 48 names

  • A Hull Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  • Abandonment Notice
  • Abeille Bourbon
  • Abeille Flandre
  • Abuela Carmen
  • Abyssal Plain
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Act of God Clause
  • Ada Rose
  • Adeyemi Homestead
  • Adjutant Stork
  • After the Fleet Left
  • Air Hose
  • Airlift Dredge
  • Ajax the Lesser
  • All Things Come to Those Who Wait
  • Alley Cat
  • Always the Scavenger Never the Wreck
  • Amaranth Recovery Unit 6
  • Ambulance Chaser
  • Angle Grinder
  • Ankou
  • Another Go
  • Another Ship's Treasure

A, continued

  • Antaeus
  • Antic
  • Anubis Weighs
  • Anvil Carrier
  • Appraiser of Bones
  • Arbitration Clause
  • Arc Welder
  • Armistice Dividend
  • Arrest Warrant in Rem
  • Artful Dodger
  • As Is
  • Ash Scatterer
  • Ashcroft Deep Recovery 2
  • Ask Me How They Died
  • Asset Recovery
  • Asset Tag 0412
  • Assiduous
  • Assigned Hull Pending
  • Asteroid Auction
  • Atlas Minor
  • Aunt Philomena
  • Auntie Folake
  • Awaiting Disposal
  • Award Pending

B: 79 names

  • Baba Yelena
  • Back from the Breakers
  • Back Into It
  • Backup Wrecker B
  • Bad Luck Travels Fast
  • Baler
  • Banshee's Errand
  • Bare Metal
  • Barely Dented
  • Barge 88 Scrap Service
  • Barnacle Nation
  • Barrow Boy
  • Barrow Digger
  • Batteries Not Recovered
  • Battleaxe Brenda
  • Battlefield Gleaner
  • Beachcomber
  • Bearded Vulture
  • Beats Mining
  • Been Called Worse
  • Bell Diver
  • Below the Thermocline
  • Belt Authority Wreck Tender 12
  • Belt Comber
  • Best Endeavors
  • Better Them Than Us
  • Betty Lou
  • Bhima
  • Big Push
  • Big Sal
  • Bill of Sale
  • Billable Hours
  • Bits of Seven Ships
  • Black Armband
  • Black Box
  • Black Fingernails
  • Black Kite
  • Black Plume
  • Blackwater

B, continued

  • Blackwell Derelict Tender 4
  • Blessing of the Emptied Vessel
  • Blowfly
  • Blue Collar
  • Blue Ox
  • Bodge Job
  • Bolt Cutter
  • Bolt-On Betty
  • Bone Orchard
  • Bone Picker
  • Boneyard Bound
  • Boot Hill
  • Borrowed Courage
  • Borrowed Engines
  • Bottom Feeder
  • Bottom Time
  • Bowerbird
  • Brakka Dun
  • Brannigan Reclaimer 4
  • Brass Collar
  • Brassy Bess
  • Brawn
  • Breach Crawler
  • Breaker Bar
  • Breaker Two
  • Breaker's Beach
  • Breastplate
  • Bric-a-Brac
  • Bright Thing Taken
  • Brighter Tomorrow
  • Broad Back
  • Brood Tithe
  • Brothers Varga
  • Brute Force
  • Bulkhead Seven
  • Bull Ox
  • Bulldog Grip
  • Bullion Room
  • Burying Beetle
  • Bustler

C: 83 names

  • Cable Clamp
  • Call Us Before You Sink
  • Callisto Yards Cutter 16
  • Calloused Palm
  • Came for the Reactor
  • Camel Pontoon
  • Can Opener
  • Canopic Jar
  • Cape of Storms
  • Captain's Log Recovered
  • Carapace of Others
  • Carbon Scoring
  • Careful That's Load-Bearing
  • Cargo Net
  • Carrion Call
  • Cash for Clunkers
  • Castellane Recovery Tug 31
  • Castillo Clan
  • Catacomb
  • Catfish
  • Ceres Reclaimer
  • Chain Fall
  • Chain of Custody
  • Chancer
  • Charnel House
  • Charon's Skiff
  • Cheap and Cheerful

C, continued

  • Check for Survivors Then Check for Copper
  • Cheerful Ghoul
  • Chiffonier
  • Chittering Appraisal
  • Cinder Belt Tender 19
  • Circling Patiently
  • Claim Jumper
  • Clan-Mother's Share
  • Clanking Clara
  • Clanless and Thriving
  • Claw Hammer
  • Clear Title
  • Clinker Nell
  • Clock Puncher
  • Closing Down Sale
  • Clunker
  • Clyde Workhorse
  • Cofferdam
  • Coffin Nail
  • Cold Battlefield
  • Cold Chisel
  • Cold Core
  • Cold Seep
  • Columbarium
  • Comeback
  • Compactor
  • Company Property 63
  • Compost

C, continued

  • Condolences
  • Condor Circling
  • Constructive Total Loss
  • Contract Vessel 204
  • Copper Helmet
  • Copper Is Copper
  • Copper Kate
  • Coral of Dead Ships
  • Core Extraction
  • Cornishman
  • Corvo Scrap Barge 15
  • Costermonger
  • Could Be Raining
  • Court Appointed Receiver
  • Cousin Dmitri's Share
  • Coyote Hours
  • Crab on the Carcass
  • Creaky Beatrice
  • Cremation Order
  • Crowbar
  • Crucible
  • Crush Depth
  • Crusher Jaw
  • Crusty Agnes
  • Crypt Warden's Cart
  • Currawong
  • Cut First Ask Later
  • Cutter Barge Fourteen

D: 55 names

  • Dad's Pension
  • Danse Macabre
  • Dark Compartment
  • Darned Sock
  • Daughters Running It Now
  • Dawn After
  • Day Laborer
  • Dead Lift
  • Dead Reactor
  • Dead Reckoning Dividend
  • Dead Ship Alley
  • Death Mask
  • Debris Line
  • Decent Interval Observed
  • Decommissioned
  • Decompression Stop
  • Deductible
  • Deep Six
  • Deepest Sympathies
  • Deimos Dumpster
  • Dented Doris
  • Dented Pride
  • Depot Tug Alpha
  • Depreciation Schedule
  • Derelict Latch
  • Destined for Paperclips
  • Dexterous

D, continued

  • Diamond in the Debris
  • Dibs
  • Dirge
  • Dirty Gertie
  • Dirty Hands
  • Disinterment
  • Disposal Route Nine
  • Dogged
  • Dolores P.
  • Don't Ask Where We Got It
  • Double Shift
  • Dovzhenko Breaker 3
  • Dowsing Rod
  • Draft Horse
  • Dragline
  • Drawbar
  • Driftline
  • Drone Barge of the Third Hive
  • Dross-Eater
  • Drummond Lifter 5
  • Dry Dock Nine Yard Tug
  • Duct Tape and Optimism
  • Due Diligence
  • Dull Finish
  • Dullahan
  • Dumping Ground
  • Dumpster Bear
  • Dung Beetle

E: 16 names

  • Early to the Wake
  • Earner
  • Edith and Agnes
  • Ee'la of the Scraps
  • Eighth Leg Grasping
  • Elbow Grease
  • Electromagnet
  • Embalmer
  • Englishman
  • Epitaph
  • Estate Sale
  • Eulogy
  • Europa Rag Trade
  • Every Bolt Has a Buyer
  • Everything Must Go
  • Exile's Trade

F: 45 names

  • Face Only a Mother
  • Fair Market Value
  • Fallow No More
  • Far Side Fly Tip
  • Farside Reclaimer 8
  • Fathom Counter
  • Fell Off the Back of a Freighter
  • Fence
  • Ferryman's Toll
  • Field of Hulls
  • Filter Feeder of the Void
  • Final Disposition
  • Finders Not Mourners
  • Finn McCool
  • Fireweed
  • First at the Funeral
  • First Line Aboard
  • Fitzgerald Cousins
  • Five Finger Discount
  • Fixer-Upper
  • Flaking Paint
  • Flask and Sandwich

F, continued

  • Fleet Number Faded
  • Flooded Deck
  • Flotsam and Jetsam
  • Flux and Filler
  • Force Majeure
  • Foreclosure
  • Formerly a Warship
  • Forth Endeavour
  • Found It Like This Honest
  • Found Money
  • Foundation Franklin
  • Fourth Generation
  • Fox in the Bins
  • Fragile My Eye
  • Frankenstein's Tug
  • Fresh Coat of Paint
  • Fresh Ledger
  • Frisky
  • From Dreadnought to Doorknobs
  • Frugal Virtue
  • Full Circle
  • Function Over Form
  • Funeral March

G: 38 names

  • Gale Rider
  • Gantry
  • Ganymede Port Wrecker 1
  • Geiger Counter
  • General Average
  • Gentle Dismantling
  • Giant Petrel
  • Gleaner Behind the Scythe
  • Gob Rope
  • Gold in the Dross
  • Goliath's Back
  • Gone but Not Forgotten or Left Alone
  • Good as New Almost
  • Good Faith Effort
  • Good Things Come in Pieces
  • Grandfather's Axe
  • Grandpa's Folly
  • Granny Tamsin
  • Grapnel
  • Grapple Arm
  • Grave Goods
  • Gravedigger's Spade
  • Graveyard Orbit
  • Graveyard Shift
  • Grease Monkey
  • Greasy Gus
  • Green Shoot
  • Grief Is Not Billable
  • Griffon
  • Grim but Solvent
  • Grim Gleaning
  • Griper
  • Growler
  • Grunt
  • Gubbins
  • Guideline Reel
  • Gull Behind the Trawler
  • Guttersnipe

H: 43 names

  • Hacksaw
  • Hadal Zone
  • Hagfish
  • Haggler
  • Halmoni's Blessing
  • Halvorsen Heavy Lift 2
  • Handle with Indifference
  • Hard Dock on Debris
  • Hard Hat
  • Hard Pull
  • Hard-Bitten Hilda
  • Harrow Line Wrecker 18
  • Hatch Cracker
  • Have You Tried Not Crashing
  • He Who Strips the Dead Metal
  • Hearse
  • Hel's Doorstep
  • Held Together by Spite
  • Hendry Family Fortune
  • Hercules of the Belt
  • Hermit Crab

H, continued

  • High Orbit Dustman
  • Hitch Pin
  • Hoard-Minder
  • Hollis Marine Salvor 4
  • Home by Friday
  • Home with the Goods
  • Homely but Paid For
  • Honest Sweat
  • Honest Work Dishonest Hours
  • Honored Carrion Rite
  • Hooded Crow
  • Horse Trader
  • Hrrn the Unwasteful
  • Hudson
  • Hulk Row
  • Hull Number Only
  • Hull Walker
  • Humans Throw Away Such Things
  • Humber Pride
  • Hurry Up and Wait
  • Husk-Taker
  • Hyena's Laugh

I: 24 names

  • I Brought My Own Crowbar
  • Ibarra Line Salvor 22
  • If It's Floating It's Fair
  • Ilya of Murom
  • Immovable Object Mover
  • In-Laws Aboard
  • Ingot Mold
  • Inner Hull
  • Insurance Job
  • Interment
  • Io Slag Runner
  • Iron Mabel
  • Iron Shoulder
  • Irresistible Force
  • Is It Still Radioactive
  • Isopod
  • It Buffs Out
  • It Glitters Therefore Ours
  • It Was Like That When We Got Here
  • It'll Hold
  • It's a Living
  • It's Only Junk If You Leave It
  • Itemized Invoice
  • Ixt Vennar

J: 15 names

  • Jackal at the Door
  • Jackdaw of Rheims
  • Jackdaw's Nest
  • Jackstay
  • Jaunty
  • Jib Crane
  • Job Number 5519
  • John Henry
  • John Ross
  • Josie Mae
  • Journeyman
  • Jump Reel
  • Junior Takes the Helm
  • Junkyard Dog
  • Jury Rig

K: 15 names

  • Kea
  • Keel for a New Ship
  • Kind Words and Bolt Cutters
  • Kintsugi
  • Kit Bash
  • Kitchen Table Accounts
  • Kite Over the Landfill
  • Knick-Knack
  • Knuckle and Tendon
  • Kowalczyk Tow 33
  • Kowalski Reunion
  • Krill Among Whales
  • Krr'vek Tal
  • Kuiper Ragpicker
  • Kumbhakarna

L: 42 names

  • Lagan and Derelict
  • Lagrange Picker
  • Lammergeier
  • Lash-Up
  • Last Rites
  • Late Unlamented
  • Laughing at Funerals
  • Law of Finds
  • Lead Boots
  • Leadfoot Lena
  • Leaks a Little
  • Leased Hull 7
  • Leave Nothing but Vacuum
  • Lee Shore Friend
  • Let It Stop Spinning First
  • Lichen on Iron
  • Lien Holder
  • Lift Bag
  • Lifter Thirty-One
  • Light Fingers
  • Lightly Exploded

L, continued

  • Lights On Nobody Aboard
  • Lindgren Twins
  • Little Rosa
  • Lloydsman
  • Loaner Hull
  • Lobster in the Wreck
  • Lock Cycle
  • Lola Pacita
  • Long Tether
  • Long-Suffering Margaret
  • Looks Worse Than It Is
  • Lost and Found Department
  • Lot 49 Recovery Hull
  • Low Bidder
  • Low Gear
  • Low Orbit Sweeper
  • Lowell Station Breaker 13
  • Lucille B.
  • Luna Landfill Express
  • Lunch Pail
  • Lych Gate

M: 53 names

  • Maas
  • Magnet Crane
  • Magnetic Boots
  • Magpie
  • Magpie's Apprentice
  • Main Strength
  • Make Do and Mend
  • Mandible
  • Manifest Hunter
  • Many Stomachs
  • Many-Limbed Patience
  • Marabou
  • Marguerite D.
  • Maritime Lien
  • Marrow Deep Tender 6
  • Mass Is Cash
  • Mass Is No Object
  • Measure Twice Cut Anyway
  • Mediator
  • Mehmet Dede
  • Mended
  • Mercury Dross Line
  • Meridian Hull Recovery 21
  • Mersey Grafter
  • Merwede
  • Messenger Line

M, continued

  • Metal Detector
  • Metal Returns to the Hive
  • Mictlan Road
  • Midden
  • Milo of Croton
  • Mind the Hole
  • Mind Your Fingers
  • Minor Hull Damage
  • Misfortune Favors the Prepared
  • Mismatched Thrusters
  • Miss Evangeline
  • Molt-Gatherer
  • Monkey Wrench
  • Morbid Curiosity
  • Moreau Sisters
  • Morning After the Battle
  • Morrigan's Crows
  • Mortician's Apprentice
  • Mostly Welds
  • Mothball Fleet Tender
  • Mother's Mortgage
  • Mourning Becomes Profit
  • Mrs. Abernathy
  • Mud Berth
  • Mudlark
  • Mute at the Door
  • Mycelium

N: 29 names

  • Nakamura Salvage Lighter 7
  • Named After the Dog
  • Named for Mother
  • Nana Would Be Proud
  • Nana Would Not Approve
  • Nesh-Udu
  • Nest of Wire
  • Net Thirty
  • Never Pretty Always Working
  • New Lease
  • Ng Family Effort
  • Night Crew Tender
  • Ninety Percent Patches
  • No Cure No Pay
  • No Frills
  • No Hulk Too Large
  • No Job Too Grim
  • No Returns
  • Nobody Else Wanted It
  • Nonna Pia
  • Noordzee
  • Northgate Reclamation Hull 5
  • Nose off a Courier
  • Not Our Fault
  • Not Our First Wreck
  • Nothing Is Left in the Dark
  • Nothing Wasted
  • Notice to Owners
  • Nutcracker

O: 36 names

  • Obaasan
  • Obituary Column
  • Odds and Sods
  • Oduya Salvor 12
  • Oil Stain
  • Okonjo Grapple Tug 2
  • Old Bones New Ships
  • Old Crow
  • Old Ironsides' Niece
  • Old Man Rasmussen
  • Old Nag
  • Old Reliable Enough
  • Old War Leftovers
  • Oma Greta
  • On Station Off Ushant
  • One Careful Owner
  • One More Season
  • One Ship's Trash
  • Oort Cloud Ragman
  • Open Casket
  • Open Form
  • Opossum
  • Opportunist
  • Opportunity Knocks Twice
  • Original Paint Somewhere
  • Orkneyman
  • Ossith-Na
  • Our Kate
  • Outcast's Livelihood
  • Outer Ring Scrapper 17
  • Overtime
  • Owner Unknown
  • Oxide Hymn
  • Oxide Red
  • Oxyacetylene
  • Oyster Knife

P: 51 names

  • Pack Rat's Palace
  • Pack Yak
  • Packrat
  • Paid by the Pound
  • Paid Off and Laid Up
  • Paid Off in Full
  • Pallas Pawnshop
  • Pallas Yard Tug 8
  • Pallbearer
  • Papa Kofi
  • Parbuckle
  • Parking Orbit Prowler
  • Parts Bin Special
  • Patch and Pump
  • Patchy Pat
  • Patient Griselda
  • Patient Mouth
  • Patient Vulture
  • Paul Bunyan
  • Pawnbroker
  • Peace Dividend
  • Peddler
  • Percentage of the Hull
  • Petrakis and Daughters
  • Phobos Yard Hack

P, continued

  • Phoenix on a Budget
  • Pied Crow
  • Pike and Osei Salvor 3
  • Pipe Wrench
  • Pity to Leave It
  • Plain Jane
  • Plasma Lance
  • Plenty of Life Left
  • Plot Number
  • Plow Mule
  • Pool Vessel 17
  • Pop's Old Boat
  • Port Side from a Liner
  • Possession Is Nine Tenths
  • Potter's Field
  • Powerless Drift
  • Pressure Differential
  • Previously Loved
  • Priced by the Ton
  • Primer Gray
  • Prior Claim
  • Probably Depressurized
  • Proof of Ownership Pending
  • Pry Bar
  • Psychopomp
  • Purser's Safe

Q: 4 names

  • Qa'thuul
  • Quarry Moon Hauler 40
  • Queen's Reclaimer
  • Quitclaim

R: 41 names

  • Raccoon Hands
  • Race to the Casualty
  • Rag Picker
  • Rag-and-Bone Man
  • Rag-and-Bone Raven
  • Ragamuffin
  • Rainy Day Fund
  • Rattletrap
  • Ravenna Heavy Tow 26
  • Reaper's Gleaner
  • Recast
  • Receipt Available on Request
  • Receiver of Wreck
  • Recovery Hull Zero Six
  • Redwater Dismantler 11
  • Reef-Builder
  • Reforged
  • Remade
  • Remains to Be Seen
  • Remora

R, continued

  • Renovation
  • Repo Man
  • Repossession Order
  • Requiem for a Freighter
  • Reserve Anchorage
  • Residual Value
  • Rest in Pieces
  • Restive
  • Restoration Project
  • Resurrection Man
  • Ring Sifter
  • Rise and Grind
  • Rivet Buster
  • Rode Zee
  • Rook and Raven
  • Round Again
  • Rubbernecker
  • Runs Fine Mostly
  • Rust Belt Rover
  • Rust-Singer
  • Rusty Ruth

S: 120 names

  • Salvage Chief
  • Salved Value
  • Salvor Eleven
  • Salvor in Possession
  • Samson Unshorn
  • Sandbank Sal
  • Sato-Lindqvist Picker 14
  • Saturation
  • Saucy
  • Scale and Tally
  • Schelde
  • Scrap Iron Annie
  • Scrapyard Moon
  • Sea Cucumber
  • Second Act
  • Second to Arrive
  • Seed Corn
  • Seefalke
  • Seen Worse Towed Worse
  • Sexton
  • Sexton Beetle
  • Shackle and Pin
  • Shame About the Crew
  • She Who Empties Hulls
  • She'll Do
  • Shear Press
  • Sheathbill
  • Sheerlegs
  • Shell-Picker of the Ninth Tide
  • Shetlander
  • Shift Boat Three
  • Shiny Thing Collector
  • Shipbreaker's Shoal
  • Shire Mare
  • Shoal Water
  • Shot Line
  • Should Have Paid for the Tow
  • Shredder
  • Shroud Maker
  • Silk Purse

S, continued

  • Silt Out
  • Silver Lining Extractor
  • Sin Eater
  • Sinew
  • Singh and Sons and Sons
  • Sisyphus Uphill
  • Six Hands Working
  • Skeleton Coast
  • Slag Heap Hattie
  • Slag Pot
  • Sledge
  • Sleeper Shark
  • Slightly Used
  • Sling and Spreader
  • Slow Ascent
  • Slow Digestion
  • Slow Is Smooth
  • Small Claims
  • Smells Like Copper
  • Smelter's Friend
  • Smokes a Bit
  • Smoky Jo
  • Smooth Is Paid
  • Snatch Block
  • Sold by the Kilo
  • Some Disassembly Required
  • Some Scorching
  • Somebody Has to Do It
  • Somebody's Bad Day
  • Something from Nothing
  • Song of Unmaking
  • Sons Not Interested
  • Soon to Be Cutlery
  • Soot and Solder
  • Sooty Sue
  • Sorry for Your Loss
  • Sorting Bin
  • Sounding Lead
  • Sow's Ear
  • Spacewalker's Wage

S, continued

  • Spanner
  • Spare Parts for Angels
  • Spare Tug Two
  • Spark Shower
  • Spawn of Thrift
  • Spears into Pruning Hooks
  • Special Compensation
  • Spin Matched
  • Spot Weld
  • Standard Dress
  • Standing By at Cape Town
  • Stannard Wrecking Tug 1
  • Starts Third Try
  • Station Tug Falmouth
  • Statute of Limitations
  • Stayed for the Copper
  • Steel-Toed Boot
  • Still Good
  • Still Warm
  • Storm King
  • Stout Heart
  • Strandline Stroller
  • Stray Dog
  • Strictly Legal
  • Strongman
  • Strongroom Door
  • Struck from the Register
  • Stubborn Mule
  • Sturdy Beggar
  • Styx Dredger
  • Subcontractor Nine
  • Subrogation
  • Such a Waste
  • Sue and Labor
  • Suit Lamp
  • Sunday Dinner
  • Surplus to Requirements
  • Swarm Tender
  • Sweet Clementine
  • Swords to Scrap

T: 72 names

  • Tack Weld
  • Tailings Run
  • Take Only Everything
  • Tante Odile
  • Tarpaulin
  • Tasmanian Devil
  • Tasteful Interval
  • Taster of Alloys
  • Tatterdemalion
  • Tax Write-Down
  • Technically Not Stealing
  • Ten Percent Finder's Fee
  • Tendril and Torch
  • Tether's End
  • Thanatos Hauler
  • That Which Remains Is Ours
  • The Dead Give Gladly
  • The Long Haul Back
  • The Twins
  • Their Garbage Our Dowry
  • There Is No Away
  • Thermic Rod
  • They Had It Coming
  • Thieving Jay
  • Thik'ra Molt
  • Thingamajig
  • Third Shift Reclaimer
  • Third Time Lucky
  • Third Vulture from the Left
  • This Side Up Probably
  • Thistle Yard Salvor 9
  • Thousand Tons Easy
  • Three Hulls Ago
  • Three Sisters Okafor
  • Thrift
  • Through the Tear

T, continued

  • Tidal Flat
  • Tin Lizzie
  • Tin Man
  • Tin Snips
  • Tinker
  • Tio Benedito
  • Titan Tip Run
  • Titan's Shoulder
  • Title Search
  • Tomb Robber
  • Tomorrow's Hull
  • Tomorrow's Rebar
  • Too Soon
  • Torch Song Tilly
  • Torque
  • Total Loss Adjuster
  • Totter
  • Tough Old Bird
  • Tow Vessel Echo Nine
  • Towing Bridle
  • Tractor
  • Trade-Ship of the Last Brood
  • Tradesman's Entrance
  • Tragic Really
  • Trash Panda
  • Tri-Belt Wrecker 9
  • Trojan Gleaner
  • Trojan Point Scrapper 6
  • Tsiolkovsky Yard Picker 3
  • Tumbling Hull
  • Turkey Buzzard
  • Turmoil
  • Two Coins
  • Two Six Heave
  • Tyne Stalwart
  • Tynesider

U: 23 names

  • Ugly Duckling
  • Ul-Thessek
  • Umber Reach Tender 27
  • Unbroken Yet
  • Uncle Teo's Mistake
  • Under New Management
  • Undertaker
  • Underwriter's Sigh
  • Unencumbered
  • Unit 12 Short Haul
  • Unlovely
  • Unmaker's Kindness
  • Upcycle
  • Urn
  • Use It Up
  • USS Bolster
  • USS Conserver
  • USS Grapple
  • USS Grasp
  • USS Hoist
  • USS Reclaimer
  • USS Safeguard
  • USS Salvor

V: 10 names

  • Vacancy
  • Vacuum Diver
  • Valkyrie's Cart
  • Vance Brothers Tow 7
  • Venus Low Cloud Lifter
  • Vesta Breakers Tug 10
  • Vesta Flea Market
  • Voyage Recorder
  • Vrosh Ketaal
  • Vuul Garran

W: 46 names

  • Waddenzee
  • Wait for It to Cool
  • Waiting at the Azores
  • Wake Keeper
  • Want Not
  • Was Anyone Using This
  • Waste Is a Failure of Imagination
  • Waste Not
  • Water Buffalo
  • We Brake for Debris
  • We Buy Ugly Hulls
  • We Just Got Here
  • Wear It Out
  • Weighbridge
  • Weigher of Hulls
  • Weight Is Money
  • Welder's Mask
  • Western Approaches
  • Wet Bell
  • Whalefall Worm
  • What the Tide Leaves
  • What's Left Is Plenty
  • Whatnot

W, continued

  • Wheat from Chaff
  • Wheeler Dealer
  • Wheezy Louise
  • When in Doubt Tow It Out
  • Whistling Past the Debris
  • Will Tow for Food
  • Winch Drum
  • Winding Sheet
  • Winifred the Third
  • Wire Rope
  • Without Prejudice
  • Witte Zee
  • Wolraad Woltemade
  • Wolverine's Larder
  • Woodlouse
  • Work Order Outstanding
  • Worker Caste Pride
  • Worth Saving
  • Wrack Line
  • Wreck Reef Runner
  • Wreck Tender Seven
  • Wrecking Bar
  • Write-Off

Y: 9 names

  • Yard Tug Delta
  • Yesterday's Flagship
  • Yoke of Oxen
  • Yorkshireman
  • You Won't Be Needing That
  • Young Davy
  • Your Loss
  • Your Mayday Our Payday
  • Your Wreck Is My Command

Z: 3 names

  • Zero Visibility
  • Zhe Annuk
  • Zwarte Zee