Recently i have been listening to a lot of Stan Rogers, who was a canadian folk singer whose topics were frequently nautical and/or historical. it struck me that many of these would make fun Rogue Trader adventures, which i will document here for your pleasure. if you have your own musical inspirations, please share them too!

Barrett's Privateers: the crew are hired by a Rogue Trader by the name of Elcid Barrett, who has delusions of grandeur. he pays them handsomely to join his crew and go plundering aliens and heretics. unfortunately, his description of his ship 'The Antelope' didn't coincide with reality, and in truth it is falling apart at the seams, with a temperamental Gellar field and a poorly trained crew. let the adventures begin

bonus points for characters who lose their legs in battle.

The Mary Ellen Carter: the explorers find a generic source of great wealth, but their ship is hulked in a freak warp storm, and they have no option but to abandon her to the warp/xenos space and flee in one of their escorts. but aboard her lies incredible profit for anyone bold enough to find her, repair her, and bring her to port. surely enough, they hear tales of an unknown hulk popping back into real space in a nearby sector, which sounds eerily similar to the one they abandoned.
they are not the only interested parties however, and the exact nature of the cargo could provide some 'interesting' competition. that, and the demonic beings that likely inhabit the ship.

Northwest Passage: there is an old voidsmans tale of one of the earliest explorers of the expanse, Franklin, whose ship was lost navigating the koronus passage. it is told that out there on some godforsaken moon on which he took refuge, you could find his hand, reaching for the stars which claimed his life. which is all very nice - but more importantly, any information which could be recovered from the remnants of the expedition would grant the discoverer great favour amongst his peers, and who knows what secrets that brave pioneer discovered on his voyages.

to make this more interesting, have the players discover an ice planet, and that the original expedition survived by selling their souls to the chaotic powers, and turning to cannibalism, giving them superhuman strength and longevity, so long as they fed on the flesh of their fellows. after all this time, these damned souls have consumed most of their crew, and have spent many centuries rationing what they had left. when the players find them, they will discover perfect gentlemen, who wish to devour their flesh, and steal their ship.