The British NERC decided in 2016 to let the public
vote on the name for their new polar research vessel
(Wiki).
No way that could go wrong...
Anyway, I pulled the data from the vote with an
R script
and arranged it into an
excel file.
RRS stands for Royeal Research Ship, by the way...
I also selected my personal top 170 humorous entries:
RRS Boaty McBoatface (124'109 likes)
RRS Its bloody cold here (10'679)
< 10'000 likes:
RRS Usain Boat
RRS Boatimus Prime
RRS I Like Big Boats and I Cannot Lie
RRS What Iceberg?
RRS Boaty McBoatface The Return
RRS Boat
RRS Pingu
RRS Thanks For All The Fish
RRS Big metal floaty thingy-thing
RRS Ice Ice Baby
RRS Boatasaurus Rex
RRS Notthetitanic
< 3'000 likes:
RRS Boat Marley and the Whalers
RRS Clifford the Big Red Boat
RRS BippityBoppity FloatilyBoatily
RRS Motörboat
RRS Millennium Falcon
RRS I'm the captain now
RRS Icey Smashy-smash
RRS Boatback Mountain
RRS Ice To See You
RRS Titanic 2: The Revenge
RRS Mostly Harmless
RRS Slippery when wet
< 1'000 likes:
RRS Fish 'n' Chips
RRS Gnarly Narwhal
RRS Do you want ice with that?
RRS Arctic Monkey
RRS Polar Bear Grylls
RRS Aunt Arctica
RRS Pole Dancer
RRS It Ain't Half Cold Mum
RRS Big Shipinnit
RRS Im On A Boat
RRS Black Pearl
RRS Float Like A Butterfly
RRS Boat, James Boat
RRS Pride of Britain
< 300 likes:
RRS I'm so cold
RRS Ice Spy With My Little Eye
RRS Precious poppy
RRS Whatever Floats Ya
RRS Obi Boat Kenobi
RRS Insert Pun Here
RRS Just add water
RRS Banana Boat
RRS Sperm Whale
RRS Whale of a Time
RRS Kraken
RRS Antarctic Monkeys
RRS Chill.i.am
RRS Seafari
RRS Professor Boatington
RRS Capt'n Birdseye Get Off My Cod
RRS Floaty McFloatface
RRS Nut Cracker
RRS Captain Nemo
RRS Boat Load Of Research
RRS Mr Splashy Pants Finder
RRS Ursus Maritimus
RRS Snow Joke
RRS Splishy Splashy
RRS SeamtLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime
RRS Iceolation
< 100 likes:
RRS Did I leave the oven on?
RRS Watch out for the iceberg
RRS Angel of the Sea
RRS Sinking feeling
RRS Pickupapenguin
RRS Crushinator
RRS Chilly Business
RRS Jon Boat Jovi
RRS NAME OF VESSEL
RRS Ocean Chill
RRS Floatally Awesome
RRS Nice Ice Baby
RRS Wet Bottom
RRS Polar Bear Express
RRS Shippy Shipshape
RRS Just Passing Through
RRS Too Much Gravy On My Flannel
RRS Planktonic Relationship
RRS Frozen Venture
RRS You'll Thank Me Later
RRS Ann Tarctic
RRS Flow Rider
RRS Richard Attenborough's Brother
< 30 likes:
RRS BOAT BOAT BOAT BOAT BOAT BOAT
RRS No Tools Stored Here Overnight
RRS 404 Ship Not Found
RRS Who left the fridge open
RRS Ice Slayer
RRS Nerculus
RRS Shippy McShipFace
RRS Built better than Titanic
RRS Whatever Boats Your Float
RRS I name that ship
RRS David AttenBoater
RRS Big Red and White Boat
RRS Boatahontus
RRS Get out of my way
RRS The Ice is Right
RRS Lord Shippy Of Shipfordshire
RRS Iron lady
RRS Polar Dancer
RRS SRR
RRS Just keep swimming
RRS Arr Arr Ess
RRS Little Lord Bigboatington III
RRS Titanic II
RRS The Cold Truth
RRS Ess ess ess ess
RRS Spongeboat Squarepants
RRS Special agent Floaty
RRS Polar Seasearch
RRS I believe in Ferries
RRS wet wet wet
RRS No to yellow snow
RRS Bipolar Bear
RRS Royal Research Ship
RRS All ice in wonderland
RRS Do not lick this ship
RRS Pos-Sea-bility
RRS Very Expensive
RRS Chilly Bottom
RRS Equator Hater
RRS Iced Tea
< 10 likes:
RRS Shia LaBoat
RRS Ice? What ice?
RRS Wear your mittens
RRS Seas the moment
RRS Science Tool From Liverpool
RRS Are we there yet
RRS Bi Polar Explorer
RRS Frostillicus
RRS Ice smasher basher 3000
RRS Johnny Deep
RRS Drunken Sailer
RRS Water-you doing on my boat
RRS Wait for the evidence....
RRS Help!
RRS NAME OF VESSEL
RRS Frozen
RRS Nauti Buoy
RRS Wizard of frost
RRS Sharknado
RRS Ice Ice Maybe
RRS The good, the bad and the boat
RRS 90 characters remain
RRS The British Taxpayer
RRS Pole position
RRS Bloody Big Boat
RRS Happy Fleet
RRS Shaken Not Stern
RRS NOAA's ARC
RRS Snow way
RRS I spy iceberg
RRS Who Touched The Thermostat?
RRS Ice Quest
RRS C-c-c-c-c-cold!
RRS Ship
RRS Ice 'n' easy
RRS Not waving, drowning
RRS How Heavy Is A Polar Bear?
RRS Gone Fishing
RRS Aboat Science
RRS Polar vision
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