Sledge and Light hammer.

Kastu and Kingyo (Bonito and Goldfish).  . Or Maguro (Tuna).

Huginn and Muninn.

(Odin's far-seeing ravens from Norse mythology...most appropriate for scout, contact & surveillance ships.)

Hmmmm;

    How about"Tiburon"(Spanish for Shark!) for the small ship and "Sanctuary" for the Big Un?

Tango And Cash

Mike And Ike

Tom And Jerry

or Jackson, Forrest, Stuart, Longstreet, Bragg, Picket, Lee - Just to *** people off ;)

There's good ones here.

At one point I was thinking of Graptar and Hammer.

Stanley and Ollie ?!

Or would that be oily.

keavdog

or Jackson, Forrest, Stuart, Longstreet, Bragg, Picket, Lee - Just to *** people off ;)

For the first contact ship I think of explorers and diplomats- maybe Magellan, Cabot, Lewis & Clark, Sacagaewa etc?

For the engineering ship I think of builders and inventors: Edison, Tesla, Henry Ford, von Braun, Bill Gates.

Maybe something mythical: John Henry or Paul Bunyon?

And those are pretty American, I'm sure someone else could come up with more non-American sort of names.

I dunno just my two cents.

From the initial description, I'd go with Agnatha (the order of jawless fish including lampreys) and Chondrichthyes (the order of cartiliginious fish that includes sharks).  

One of theee might be good for another type ship, a picket ship.  It would be on the outskirts of the main fleet watching for trouble and have enough firepower to delay a enemy until help arrived.  Sort of a space-born AWACS ship but armed.

Here's a update.

The ships still are not named, but I'm waiting until I'm working on the final painting for that.

Here's some shots of the progress so far:

First the special operations ship

Then the repair/drydock ship:

For a idea of size, the ruler alongside it's hull is 18 inches long.

Here's the latest update:

Hmmm;

     Last time I was in the Sector they were building a new Space-Dock. I think it was called "Aprobias"

Question?

 Is that main Deck-House a discarded C-Pap Water tank? Excellent use of re-cycled parts!

Oh;

 The Spec-Op Ship. Would that be the Antietam?

The operstions housing is the bottom of the tank and the top became the underside engine section.

The special ops ship was a Renwal U.S. cruiser I stumbled on.  I think it was the Springfield.

Neat!!! You're a roll with these Ikar!!! 

The space dry dock/repair ship Vulkan's Forge and its current project the special operations ship Kunin are finished and waiting to be transported to Modelpalooza this month.

Oh that's cool Ikar! Good luck with the show!