SHIPS

This is an list of individual ships (not types and classes of ships) seen or mentioned in Babylon 5 and Crusade. As my memory is not that good, I'm certain that there are innumerable mistakes on this page. Especially the ships that took part to Earth's Civil War are a bit of a mystery - I'm somewhat confused on which ships defected/surrendered/were destroyed.

This page has now been translated into Spanish (off-page link).

Acronyms: EA = Earth Alliance
MF = Minbari Federation
CR = Centauri Republic
NR = Narn Regime
ISA = Army of Light/Interstellar Alliance
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

K

   
Kafka The passenger liner on which Lise and Garibaldi left Babylon 5 when they moved to Mars in 2262.
Episode: 108
EA
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L

   
Lexington An Earth cruiser that took on mainly low-profile missions because its soon to be retired captain Sterns didn't want to take any unnecessary risks. However, when the Minbari war began, Lexington too had to take part in the battles. During the war the ship was ambushed and in the short and uneven battle that followed, Captain Sterns was killed. The rest of the crew was saved by the fact that their ship was so badly damaged that the enemy mistook them to be dead too. For a while the Lexington floated dead in space, unable to even call for help in the fear that the enemy would intercept the message and return to finish them off. With Captain Sterns dead, the ship was now under the command of Sterns's second-in-command, Commander John Sheridan. It was Sheridan who came up with the desperate plan to mine the near-by asteroids with nuclear warheads and then send out the distress signal to lure the Minbari into the trap. The Minbari flagship Black Star answered the call and sailed straight into the minefield. The crew of the Lexington was eventually rescued and the of Black Star was considered to be the only true victory the humans scored during the entire war.

Captains:
Captain Sterns
Commander John Sheridan

Episode: ItB

EA
Loki The ship on which Julie Musante left Babylon 5 in 2260 after her brief tenure as the station's political officer.
Episode: 049
EA
Lumini The Minbari ship on which the Minbari captain Lenann (who had helped Delenn protect the station from an attack by President Clark's forces) arrived to Babylon 5 after Delenn had offered to show him around the station.
Episode: 055
MF
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M

   
Malios A Centauri vessel that during the Narn-Centauri War smuggled weapons to the front via Babylon 5. It was during one of these trips that Malios was destroyed by the Narn vessel N'Ton just outside the station.
Episode: 037
CR
Maria (Whitestar 27) A whitestar that was patrolling the boarders of Centauri space in mid 2262. Delenn had Lennier assigned on Maria for a while so that on the side of his training he could investigate the Centauri involvement on the attacks on the Alliance shipping routes. Maria, or Whitestar 27 as it was officially called, was named after the late sister of its captain.

Captain:
Anla'Shok Enrique Montoya

Episodes: 102-103

ISA
Marie Celeste The passenger liner on which the unlucky Thomas 'Jinxo' Jordan left Babylon 5 in 2258.
Episode: 015
EA
Marx One of the ships that had to wait for hours before docking on the station in 2262 after the transport vessel 11719 had crashed into the station's pressure doors damaging them badly.
Episode: 094
EA
Medusa The Earth Force destroyer patrolling on the orbit of the human separatist colony Regula 4 and overseeing the mining operations on the planet.

Captain:
Captain Daniels

Episode: C2

EA
Melori The Centauri vessel that took Timov, Mariel and Daggair back to Centauri Prime after Londo Mollari had decided which one of them could remain as his wife.
Episode: 029
CR
Mo'fak'cha The alien ship that brought Lise Hampton-Edgars to Babylon 5 in 2261 when the station was under embargo.
Episode: 078
 
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N

   
Nemesis One of the ships enforcing the blockade of Proxima 3 in September 2261 when Sheridan's forces came to liberate the planet. For a while Nemesis held its own against the whitestars, but was eventually damaged and forced to surrender. After the battle Nemesis joined the resistance.

Captain:
Captain Yoshi Kawagawa

Episode: 081

EA
Nimrod One of the ships President Clark sent to take over Babylon 5 after Agrippa and Roanoke had failed.
Episode: 054
EA
N'Ton The Narn vessel which attacked the Centauri vessel Malios outside Babylon 5 in September 2259.
Episode: 037
NR
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O

   
Olympic One of the ships President Clark sent to take over Babylon 5 after Agrippa and Roanoke had failed.
Episode: 054
EA
Olympus Doctor Sarah Chambers was offered the post of the chief of medical facilities on the Olympus but she turned the job down and instead joined the crew of the Excalibur.
Episode: C5
EA
Orion One of the first Earth ships to use organic Shadow technology. Orion was destroyed in a battle against whitestars near the end of the Civil War and its crew was taken to Beta 9 and put under house arrest.
Episode: 085
EA
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P

   
Pollux One of the ships that didn't hesitate to follow President Clark's orders to destroy refugee ships trying to leave the war zone during the Earth Civil War. Pollux was also among the ships enforcing the blockade of Proxima 3 in September 2261 when Captain Sheridan's forces came to liberate the planet. Unlike some of the other Earth ships taking part in the battle, Pollux remained loyal to President Clark. The ship and its entire crew were destroyed when one of the whitestars collided lost control and collided with it.

Captain:
Captain Elizabeth Morganstern

Episodes: 081-082

EA
Pournelle An Earth heavy cruiser that during the Mars Rebellion destroyed the ship Abel Horn was on.
Episode: 028
EA
Prometheus An Earth cruiser that was sent to Minbari space in 2245 to study the mysterious alien race and to perhaps make contact with them. The ship Prometheus eventually made contact with was the Minbari cruiser that carried the Grey Council. Unfortunately Captain Jankowski mistook the ship's open gunports, a sign of respect, as a threat, and opened fire resulting the death of the Minbari leader Dukhat. Prometheus managed to escape the Minbari wrath to a safe base, but the damage had already been done and the result was the long and bloody Earth-Minbari War .

Captain:
Captain Jankowski

Episode: ItB

EA
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Q

   
Qual'Thaal An alien ship that took a small group of people from the planet of Zander to another planet to form a colony. Qual'Thaal was destroyed by the Shadows near Theta 49, but fortunately some of the passengers managed to salvage themselves on the planet, where they remained isolated for the next thousand years.
Episode: C5
 
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R

   
Redstar 9 An independent Earth transport smuggling contrabands to the Drazi homeworld. In 2262 it was attacked by the Drakh (disguised as the Centauri). The ship's captain managed to escape to Drazi and for a while he was the only surviving witness of the attacks the Drakh had made on the Alliance shipping routes (that is, until the Drakh had him killed).

Captain:
Brannagan

Episode: 100

 
Roanoke One of the ships President Clark send out to take over Babylon 5 in April 2260. Roanoke was destroyed when Captain Hiroshi rammed her badly damaged ship Churchill into it.
Episode: 054
EA
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S

   
Schwartzkopf One of the first ships to turn against President Clark in early 2260. Schwartzkopf was damaged, if not destroyed in a battle near Io while trying to help General Hague and the Alexander to escape.
Episode: 053
EA
Skydancer, The Catherine Sakai's one-man survey ship.

Captain:
Catherine Sakai

Episode: 006

EA
Strakath A Drazi ship that was part of Sheridan and Delenn's fleet during the last battle of the Shadow War. When the First Ones tried to destroy Sheridan and Delenn's ship with a missile from the Shadow Death Cloud, the Strakath took the hit for them.
Episode: 072
 
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T

   
Takari The Minbari cruiser on which Delenn met with Neroon in 2261 to ask him to help her to end the war between castes on Minbar.
Episode: 079
MF
Talquith A Narn transport carrying the G'Quan'Eth plant G'Kar needed to perform a religious ceremony. The ship was destroyed due to a malfunction in the docking computers.
Episode: 012
NR
Talos An Earth cruiser protecting the empty and soon to be demolished Babylon 5 in 2281 when Sheridan visited the station for the last time.
Episode: 110
EA
Theseus An Earth ship fighting on Sheridan's side during the Earth Civil War
Episode: 086
EA
Titans A Warlock Class destroyer commanded by Captain Susan Ivanova after the Earth Civil War.

Captain:
Captain Susan Ivanova

Episode: 087 (named in the short story "Hidden Agendas")

EA
Trigati A Minbari cruiser that fought in the Earth-Minbari War. After the Grey Council ordered their forces to surrender, the Trigati's captain Sineval took his life rather than surrendered. The ship was left under the command of his second-in-command Kalain, who then led the Trigati to a self-imposed exile and as the years went by the Trigati became almost a legend. In January 2259, soon after Captain Sheridan had taken command of Babylon 5, Trigati ended their exile and came to the station. The crew of the ship had decided to die honorably in battle, but their plan failed as Sheridan realized what was going on and forbid the starfuries to open fire. In the end the Trigati was destroyed while trying to escape into hyperspace after another Minbari warcruiser had damaged their engines.

Captains:
Sineval
Kalain

Episode: 023

MF
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U

   
Ulysses Carolyne Sykes' trading vessel.

Episode: 023

 
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V

   
Valerius The ship from which Londo Mollari and Lord Refa oversaw the bombing of Narn in late 2259.
Episode: 042
CR
Vesta One of the ships enforcing the blockade of Proxima 3 in September 2261 when Sheridan's forces came to liberate the planet. Even before the battle even began Vesta's captain, who was an old friend of Sheridan's, announced their neutrality. After the battle Vesta joined Sheridan's forces.

Captain:
Captain Edward MacDougan

Episodes: 081, 083

EA
Victory One of the two prototypes for the new class of whitestar ships that was born out of the co-operative efforts of Earth, Minbar and the Interstellar Alliance. Even before the existence of these two ships was made public, President Sheridan 'stole' both Victory and the other prototype Excalibur in order to stop a Shadow 'death cloud' the Drakh were planning to use against Earth. While commanding the Excalibur himself, Sheridan turned over the command of Victory to Leonard Anderson, the captain of Charon. Sheridan and Anderson knew the cloud's Achilles heel, but were unable to get close enough to make a direct hit. After Victory's weapons systems were damaged, Anderson realized how desperate the situation actually was and, in order to protect his daughter who was on Earth, he then gave the order to ram Victory into the death cloud's command center.

Captain:
Captain Leonard Anderson

Episode: ACtA

ISA
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W

   
White Star, The An Earth transport, which brought Rabbi Koslov and athlete Walker Smith to Babylon 5 in 2258.
Episodes: 014
EA
White Star, The The original prototype of the class of ships combining Vorlon and Minbari technology. The Minbari Religious Caste gave the original White Star to Sheridan in January 2260 and it was one of the most important assets of the Army of Light until the rest of the whitestar fleet was finished. The fate of the White Star was to be destroyed in Z'ha'dum when programmed the ship (equipped with two 500 megaton nuclear detonations) to crash into the Shadow capital.

Captains:
Captain John Sheridan
Ambassador Delenn
Commander Susan Ivanova

Episodes: 045, 049, 052, 054, 058, 060-062, 064-066

ISA
White Star 2 Captain Sheridan's ship after the original White Star was destroyed in Z'ha'dum. It was from this ship that Sheridan and Delenn led the greatest fleet in history in their battle against both the Shadows and the Vorlons in 2261. Sheridan used White Star 2 in the Earth Civil War as well, and to make sure that the enemy would recognize it as his ship, he had the Babylon 5 insignia painted on it. After Sheridan was captured by president Clark's men, Commander Ivanova took command of WS2 and the rest of the fleet. During a battle against ships that were using organic Shadow technology, WS2 collided with some debris and was destroyed. The only people to survive the incident were Marcus Cole and the fatally wounded Ivanova.

Captains:
Captain John Sheridan
Commander Susan Ivanova

Episodes: 072, 081-083, 085

ISA
White Star 4 One of the whitestars that took part to the battle against the Shadow enhanced Earth ships in 2261.

Episodes: 085

ISA
White Star 7 One of the three whitestars Captain Sheridan used as decoys when organizing the liberation of Proxima 3. He sent the ships to Earth space in order to fool President Clark's people into believing that the resistance was planning to hit earth or Mars.
Episodes: 080
ISA
White Star 9 The whitestar Commander Ivanova and Lorien used when they were looking for First Ones to help in the Shadow War in 2261. Later that year the same whitestar (although commanded by someone else) took part to the battle against the Shadow enhanced Earth ships.

Captains:
Captain Susan Ivanova

Episodes: 072, 085

ISA
White Star 12 One of the three whitestars Captain Sheridan used as decoys when organizing the liberation of Proxima 3. He sent the ships to Earth space in order to fool President Clark's people into believing that the resistance was planning to hit earth or Mars.
Episodes: 080
ISA
White Star 14 The whitestar Sheridan and Delenn sent on a suicide mission to lure the Shadows to Corriana 6. Together with a couple of other whitestars WS14 attacked a Shadow base and then 'lost' the battle allowing 'important information' about a secret base of operations to fall into Shadow hands. The sacrifice of the crew of WS14 wasn't in vain - the Shadows took the bait.

Captain:
Anla'Shok Ericson

Episode: 071

ISA
White Star 16 A whitestar that was destroyed in the first battle against the Shadows in 2261.
Episode: 077
ISA
White Star 18 One of the three whitestars Captain Sheridan used as decoys when organizing the liberation of Proxima 3. He sent the ships to Earth space in order to fool President Clark's people into believing that the resistance was planning to hit earth or Mars.
Episodes: 080
ISA
White Star 20 A whitestar that took part in the battles of the Earth Civil War.
Episode: 083
ISA
Whitestar 26 The whitestar Delenn sent to pick up Michael Garibaldi from the Drazi homeworld after his mission there had failed.
Episode: 100
ISA
White Star 27 See Maria ISA
White Star 40 The whitestar Commander Ivanova used in 2261 on her trip from Babylon 5 to the resistance fleet staging area when she took command of the resistance fleet after Captain Sheridan had left to rescue his father.
Episode: 083
ISA
White Star 43 One of the whitestars that President Sheridan in 2262 ordered to keep an eye on the Centauri and the rest of the member worlds of the Interstellar Alliance. The ship was supposed to alert the Alliance if there was any danger of a military conflict so that the rest of the whitestar fleet would be able to form a buffer zone between the two factions. Unfortunately Michael Garibaldi, who was supposed to act as a liaison between Sheridan and the whitestars was drunk when WS43 called for help. The ship ended up being alone on the firing line and was destroyed. The incident triggered off the war between the Centauri and the Alliance.
Episode: 104
ISA
White Star 90 A whitestar patrolling on the borders of the Drazi space in early 2262. WS90 discovered the Enphili, a primitive race oppressed by the Drazi and the Raiders. The latter made an attempt to stop WS90 from taking this information to the Interstellar Alliance, and the ship was badly damaged, but managed to escape. The only survivor, the ranger who had commanded the ship, was killed soon after WS90 arrived on Babylon 5, but fortunately Lyta was able to scan him and to find out the truth about the plight of the Enphili.
Episode: 091
ISA
White Star Prime The whitestar Marcus Cole was commanding when he made contact with the resistance movement on Proxima 3 prior to Sheridan's liberation strike on the planet. During the battle itself Marcus was on White Star 2.

Captains:
Anla'Shok Marcus Cole

Episodes: 083, 086

ISA
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Z

   
Zeus A ship loyal to President Clark during the last battle of the Earth Civil War in 2261.
Episode: 086
EA
Z'froth The transport on which Vir traveled to Minbar in 2260 when accepting the post of ambassador there.
Episode: 047
MF
Zha'len Delenn's personal flyer.
Episodes: 033, 075
MF
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