List of fictional ships

This list of fictional ships lists artificial vehicles supported by water, which are either the subject of, or an important element of, a notable work of fiction.

Anime and manga

• Advenna Avis — Baccano!
• Argonaut — Heroic Age
• Blue 6, Shang 9 — Blue Submarine No. 6
• Going Merry — One Piece
• Thousand Sunny — One Piece
• Thriller Bark — One Piece
• Oro Jackson — One Piece
• Moby Dick — One Piece
• JDS Mirai (DDG-182) — Zipang
• JDF Ishin  — Theta-class submersible destroyer (actually a frigate) from Innocent Venus
• Over the Rainbow (a renamed USS Harry S. Truman) — Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Pascal Magi — Tactical Roar
• Ghost Ship — Blue Submarine No. 6
• Super 99 — Submarine Super 99
• Tempest Junior — Thundersub
• Tuatha de Danaan — Full Metal Panic!
• Yashiromaru — Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths
• St. Aphrodite — Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths
• Blue  — Blue Drop
• Space Battleship Yamato — Space Battleship Yamato
• Super Dimension Fortress One (SDF-1) Macross  — Macross
• Illustria  — United Nations aircraft carrier from Macross Zero
• Asuka II (CVN-99)  — United Nations (formerly with Japan Maritime Self Defense Force) aircraft carrier from Macross Zero
• SS Naked Sun  — aircraft carrier from Kill la Kill
• Harekaze (Y-467)  — Kagerō-class destroyer, Yokosuka girls marines high school, High School Fleet

Comics

• Aurora — trawler in The Adventures of Tintin story The Shooting Star
• Aurora — ship in The Sign of Four Sherlock Holmes adventure
• The Black Freighter — metafictional pirate ship that is referenced throughout the Watchmen comic series
• Borneo Prince — 19th-century trading vessel converted for use as a gunboat in World War II in Commando Comics
• Cithara — alleged source of a distress signal in The Adventures of Tintin story The Shooting Star
• HMS Cutlass  — the name given to four ships of the Royal Navy - the first a battleship present at the Battle of the Nile; the second an ironclad sunk in World War I; the third a World War II destroyer, and the most recent ship a Cold War-era destroyer. All four ships appear in the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage.
• Eagle's Shadow — Sir Nicholas Fury's ship in Marvel 1602
• Grossadler  — Kriegsmarine destroyer, from the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage
• Hawksub — Blackhawk
• Karaboudjan — Armenian cargo ship in The Adventures of Tintin story The Crab with the Golden Claws
• Salty Sea Mare — ship owned by Captain Hoofbeard from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic series story Friendship Ahoy!
• SS Ramona — tramp steamer in The Adventures of Tintin story The Red Sea Sharks
• Sea Queen/The Gertrude — Lex Luthor's yacht in Superman Returns
• Sirius — expedition ship in The Adventures of Tintin stories The Shooting Star and Red Rackham's Treasure
• Unicorn — 17th-century three-masted armed Royal Navy vessel in The Adventures of Tintin stories The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure
• HMS Viper  — British destroyer, from the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage
• Vulkan  — Kriegsmarine cruiser, from the Commando Comics story Flak Fever

Film

• 903 – Iranian Kilo-class submarine in Steel Sharks, 1996
• USS Abraham Lincoln – frigate in Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954
• Academic Vladislav Volkov – Russian research ship in Virus, 1999
• Acheron – French Napoleonic frigate in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003
• Aeolus – deserted 1930s cruise ship in Triangle, 2009
• African Queen – The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, 1951
• Albatross – The Sea Hawk with Errol Flynn, 1940
• Altair – The Ghost Ship with Richard Dix, 1943
• Amindra – with shanghaied sailor from the Glencairn, torpedoed and sank in The Long Voyage Home, 1940
• SS Andes – cruise ship in Let's Go Native, 1930
• Angelina – Romancing the Stone, 1984
• SS Antonia Graza – derelict Italian luxury ocean liner in Ghost Ship, 2002
• Aquanaut 3 – experimental submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
• Arabella – Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935
• Argo – galley, Jason and the Argonauts, 1963; Jason and the Argonauts, 2000
• Argonautica – cruise ship, Deep Rising, 1998
• USS Aspen – Full Fathom Five, 1990
• HMS Avenger – Billy Budd, 1962
• Batavia Queen – steamship, Krakatoa, East of Java, 1969
• HMS Bedford – British Royal Navy Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
• USS Bedford (DLG-113) – The Bedford Incident, 1965 (also in book version)
• Belafonte – oceanographic research vessel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004
• USS Belinda (APA-22) – Away All Boats, 1956 (also appears in original novel)
• Benthic Explorer – offshore support ship, The Abyss, 1989
• Black Hawk – The Pirate of the Black Hawk (Il Pirata dello sparviero nero) 1958
• Black Pearl – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003
• Black Swan – The Black Swan, 1942
• Brandenburg – World War II German battleship in We Dive at Dawn, 1943
• SS Britannic – cruise ship in Juggernaut, 1974
• USS Caine – The Caine Mutiny, 1954 (also appears in written version)
• Caledonia II – Some Like It Hot, 1959
• USS Charleston – On the Beach, 2000
• HMS Chester – British Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
• SS Chiku Shan – ferryboat, Blood Alley, 1955
• SS Claridon – ocean liner in The Last Voyage, 1960
• HMS Compass Rose – World War II Flower-class corvette in The Cruel Sea, 1953
• USS Copperfin – World War II sub Destination Tokyo with Cary Grant, 1943
• SS Crescent Star – cruise ship that sinks in Seven Waves Away, 1957
• USS Davies (SSN-???) – Los Angeles-class SSN in Crash Dive, 1996
• Deep Quest – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
• HMS Defiant – frigate in HMS Defiant, 1962
• HMS Devonshire – British Type 23 frigate sunk in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
• Disco Volante – motor yacht/hydrofoil in Thunderball, 1965
• USS Dragonfish – U.S. submarine in Battle of the Coral Sea, 1959
• Dulcibella – The Riddle of the Sands, 1979
• USS Echo – sailing ship from The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 1959
• Edinburgh Trader – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006
• Elizabeth Dane – The Fog, 1980
• Empress – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007
• HMS Endeavour – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007
• MS Ergenstrasse – The Sea Chase (1955) with John Wayne and Lana Turner, and briefly in Patriot Games with Harrison Ford, 1992
• SS Essess – Hot Shots!, 1991
• Flying Dutchman – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007
• The Flying Wasp – Caddyshack, 1980
• Geronimo – America's Cup racing yacht, Wind, 1992
• Ghost – sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf, 1941
• Glencairn – freighter, The Long Voyage Home, 1940
• Gloria N – And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va), Federico Fellini, 1983
• SS Goliath – ocean liner, Goliath Awaits, 1981 TV film
• Hahnchen Maru – cargo vessel modified to command ship, Contact, 1997
• Hai Peng – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007
• SS Happy Wanderer – cruise liner, Carry On Cruising, 1962
• USS Haynes (DE-181) – destroyer escort, The Enemy Below, 1957
• The Henrietta – paddle steamer, Around the World in 80 Days, 1956
• Immer Essen ("Always Eating") – cruise ship, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, 1982
• The Inferno – The Goonies, 1985
• HMS Interceptor – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003
• USS Intrepid – cruise ship in the film Intrepid ^[1]
• Jenny – Forrest Gump, 1994
• Jenny – tugboat in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, 1979
• USS Lansing (SSN-795) – Los Angeles-class SSN (depicted as an SSBN) in Danger Beneath the Sea, 2001
• Liparus – Karl Stromberg's submarine swallowing supertanker in The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977
• Love Nest – whaling ship in the 1923 Buster Keaton film The Love Nest, 1923
• HMS Lydia – Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951
• Mary Deare – The Wreck of the Mary Deare, starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, 1959
• SS Minnow Johnson – civilian yacht, Rush Hour 2, 2001
• USS Montana – The Abyss, 1989
• USS Montana – The Fifth Missile, 1986
• Morning Star – Cutthroat Island, 1995
• Nathan Ross – whaling ship, All the Brothers Were Valiant, 1953
• Nautilus – Captain Nemo's 1860s submarine, appears in several films including: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Mysterious Island (1961), Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969), The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
• HMS Nereid – Royal Navy submarine, Virus, 1980
• Ning-Po – freighter owned by SPECTRE in You Only Live Twice, 1967
• USS Oakland (SSN-798) – Los Angeles-class SSN in Steel Sharks, 1996
• Orca – Quint's fishing boat in Jaws, 1975
• Patna – tramp steamer in Lord Jim, 1965
• Pequod – whaleship, Moby Dick, 1956, 1978, 1998
• USS Pequod – American submarine, 2010: Moby Dick, 2010
• Poseidon – ocean liner/cruise ship, The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), The Poseidon Adventure (2005), Poseidon (2006)
• USS Poseidon – USS Poseidon: Phantom Below, 2005
• SS Princess Irene – History Is Made at Night, 1937
• Q Boat – Q's fishing boat, The World Is Not Enough, 1999
• Proteus – nuclear mini submarine from Fantastic Voyage, 1966 ^[2]
• Rachel – Moby Dick, 1956, 1998
• Reaper – Dog's ship in Cutthroat Island, 1995
• Red Dragon – civilian yacht, Rush Hour 2, 2001
• Red Witch – Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne, 1948
• Red October – The Hunt for Red October film with Sean Connery, 1990 (also in the 1984 Tom Clancy novel)
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) – World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (1955) and the 1984 television film (also appears in novel, play and TV series versions)
• Rights-of-Man – Billy Budd, 1962
• Rob Roy – commercial freighter, Windbag the Sailor, 1936
• USS San Pablo – The Sand Pebbles, 1966
• HMS Saltash Castle – World War II frigate in The Cruel Sea, 1953
• Saracen – yacht, Dead Calm, 1989
• USS Sawfish – On the Beach, 1959
• USS Scotia – submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
• Sea Cliff – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
• Sea Star – tug in Virus, 1999
• HMS Sea Tiger – World War II submarine, We Dive at Dawn, 1943
• USS Sea Tiger – World War II submarine, Operation Petticoat, 1959 (also the 1977 TV series)
• SS Sea Witch – Action in the North Atlantic, 1943
• SSNR Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with Walter Pidgeon, 1961
• HMS Shag at Sea – yacht, Austin Powers in Goldmember, 2002
• HMS Sherwood – British cruiser, Carry on Admiral, 1957
• HMS Solent – British destroyer, Sink the Bismarck!, 1960
• IJN Shinaru – Japanese aircraft carrier, Torpedo Run, 1958
• Stealth Ship – media mogul Elliot Carver's secret news creator in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997 (based on the real-life Sea Shadow (IX-529)
• St. Georges – British spy ship trawler For Your Eyes Only, 1981
• USS Starfish – Hellcats of the Navy, 1957
• Starfish – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
• USS Stingray – Balao-class submarine, Down Periscope, 1996 (no relation to the Salmon-class SS-186 USS Stingray)
• HMS Sutherland – 74-gun ship of the line, Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951
• USS Thunderfish – Operation Pacific with John Wayne, 1951
• USS Tigerfish (SSN 509) – United States nuclear submarine from Ice Station Zebra, 1968
• USS Tigershark – The Atomic Submarine, 1959
• HMS Torrin – In Which We Serve, 1942
• Turtle – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
• U-571 – appears in U-571, 2000 (coincidentally the same number as German submarine U-571)
• Ulysses – submarine, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, 2001
• SSN Ulysses (SSN-???) – Los Angeles-class in Crash Dive, 1996
• USS Valhalla (SSN-905) – Los Angeles-class SSN in Rapid Assault, 1997
• SS Venture – King Kong, 1933, 2005
• HMS Venus – British frigate, Carry On Jack, 1962
• HMS Viperess – British Victor-class destroyer, The Cruel Sea, 1953
• HMS Victoria – British WWI ironclad, Britannic, 2000
• The Wanderer – Captain Ron with Martin Short and Kurt Russell, 1992
• We're Here – Captains Courageous with Spencer Tracy, 1937
• Wonkatania – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 1971 (also appears in 2005 adaptation), based on the Cunard Line tradition of ending ships with "-ania" (i.e., RMS Lusitania and RMS Aquitania)
• Yellow Submarine – The Beatles' psychedelic submarine, 1968

Literature

Single works

• USS Abraham Lincoln — frigate in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 1868
• African Queen — The African Queen by C. S. Forester, 1935
• Alice May — from the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service, 1907
• Anchises — One of Ours by Willa Cather, 1922
• HMS Antigone — Leander-class cruiser, The Cruiser by Warren Tute, 1955
• Arabella — Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 1924
• Argo — Greek mythological ship in Argonautica, the original story of Jason and the Argonauts, by Apollonius Rhodius, 3rd century BCE
• Artemis — Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, 1993
• HMS Artemis — The Ship by C. S. Forester, 1943
• Astrea — Roman galley ship, Ben-Hur by Genl Lew Wallace, 1880
• Baalbek — Libyan freighter, Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• USS Barracuda (SSN-593), United States Navy submarine in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
• USS Belinda (APA-22) — Away All Boats by Kenneth M. Dodson, 1954 (also appears in film version)
• HMS Bellipotent — Billy Budd by Herman Melville, 1924
• Britannia — Captain Grant's ship in In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867–1868
• HMS Broadsword — Royal Navy Destroyer, involved in an intentional incident in First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, 1984
• BRP Cagayan de Oro — Philippine Navy Whidbey Island-class LSD, Dragon Strike - The Millennium War by Humphrey Hawksley and Simon Holberton, 1997
• USS Caine — The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 1951 (also appears in film version)
• HMS Calypso — frigate, The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, 1941
• USS Cantwell — The Last Ship by William Brinkley, 1988 ^[3]
• USS Carl Jackson — Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• SS Carnatic — steamer running from Hong Kong to Yokohama in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
• China — steamer running from New York to Liverpool in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
• HMS Compass Rose — The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951
• Covenant — brig, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
• USS Delaware — frigate, The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, 1941
• Demeter — Russian schooner in Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897
• USS Dolphin — Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, 1963
• USS Dragonfish — a United States Navy submarine in both Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler, 1976, and To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
• Dulcibella — The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903
• Duncan — ocean yacht, In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867
• Erebus — Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988
• Fin of God — Omnian ship, Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, 1992
• USS Fletcher (DDG-1005) — US Navy Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer featured in The Backup Asset by Leslie Wolfe, 2015
• The Fuwalda — ship which took Tarzans's parents to Africa, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
• General Grant — steamer running from Yokohama to San Francisco in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
• Ghost — sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904
• The Glen Carrig — from the horror novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson, 1907
• Grenouille Frénétique (Frantic Frog) — pirate ship, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
• Großadmiral Dönitz — Kriegsmarine nuclear submarine, Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
• Großadmiral Raeder — Kriegsmarine aircraft carrier, Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
• Henrietta — paddle steamer chartered by Phileas Fogg between New York and Liverpool in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
• The Hesperus — from the poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1842
• HISPANIOLA (capitalized throughout the story) — Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
• Ilya Podogin — Soviet SSN, Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995
• USS Independence — fictional Wasp-class amphibious assault ship where a large part of The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place, 2004
• HMS Indomitable — Billy Budd by Herman Melville, 1924
• HMS Iphigenia — frigate, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971
• USS James T Doig — destroyer, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971
• Jeroboam — Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 1851
• Jolly Roger — Captain Hook's pirate ship, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, 1904
• USS Keeling — The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, 1955
• Korund — Tango-class submarine, Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• USS Langley — a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman, 1992
• Laughing Sandbag — pirate ship, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
• Leif Ericson — The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, 1975
• USS Mako — United States Navy submarine in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
• Marie Celeste — from the short story "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1884 (the real ship was Mary Celeste)
• Mary Deare — The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
• Milka — Jingo by Terry Pratchett, 1997 (name parodies the Pinta)
• Mongolia — steamer running from Brindisi to Suez and Bombay in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
• Mortzestus — horror novel The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson, 1909
• USS Nathan James (DDG-80), Nathan James-class guided missile destroyer — The Last Ship by William Brinkley, 1988 ^[4]
• Nautilus — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874) by Jules Verne
• Nellie (presumably for one of the Nelsons in British service) — Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899
• HMS Nemesis — Tai-Pan by James Clavell, 1966
• Numestra del Oro — armed merchantman owned by a Colombian cartel, Hammerheads by Dale Brown, 1990
• USS Okinawa (LHD-10) — US Navy Wasp-class (LHD) Landing Helicopter Dock / amphibious assault ship featured in The Ghost Pattern by Leslie Wolfe, 2015
• HMS Orcus — Oberon-class submarine, Submarine by John Wingate, 1982
• HMS Pandora — frigate, One of Our Warships by John Winton, 1975
• Pacific Klondike — deep ocean drillship, Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• Penguin — The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, 1838
• Pequod — Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851
• Pharaoh — the ship on which Edmond Dantès first sailed in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844
• Plymouth Corporation's Revenge — pirate ship, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
• Pocahontas — The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 1915
• SS Poseidon — ocean liner, The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico, 1969
• Pushkin — The Last Ship by William Brinkley, 1988
• USS Pyramus — Polaris missile-carrying SSBN, The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman, 1967
• Queequeg — The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket, 2004
• Rachel — Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851
• Rangoon — steamer running from Calcutta to Hong Kong in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
• Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch by Garland Roark, 1946
• Red October — Soviet submarine, The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 1984
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) — World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen, 1946 (also appears in play, film and TV series versions)
• Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd by Herman Melville, 1924
• Rocketing Spitfire — sloop, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
• HMS Saltash — The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951 (HMS Saltash Castle in the film)
• USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna, 1962
• Santa Cascara (later HMS Golden Vanity) — Spanish galleon captured by the British, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
• Santa Umbriago — Spanish warship, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
• HMS Saturn — Swiftsure-class sub, The Saturn Experiment by Peter Shepherd, 1988
• USS Scorpion — On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957
• USS Sea Trench — Aquarius Mission by Martin Caidin, 1978
• The Sea Witch — yacht, The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
• USOS Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon, 1961
• Siren — yacht, A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse, 1919
• Speranza — Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler, 1943
• USS Starbuck (SSN-989) — Pacific Vortex! by Clive Cussler, 1983 (Cover of Sphere edition shows SSN-107 on the fin)
• USS Stingray — United States Navy submarine in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
• USS Stormy Beach — Long Beach-Class cruiser, Fireplay by William Wingate
• USS Swordfish — On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957
• USS Tallahatchie County — United States Navy submarine tender in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
• Tankadère — schooner chartered by Phileas Fogg between Hong Kong and Yokohama in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
• HMS Téméraire — Polaris nuclear submarine, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971
• USS Thomas Jefferson — Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson, 1997
• HMS Thunder Child  — The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1897
• SS Titan  — Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson, 1898
• Twelve Apostles — passenger ship, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
• U-174 — Kriegsmarine U-boat, Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
• HMS Ulysses — HMS Ulysses, by Alistair MacLean, 1955
• SS Valparaiso — Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow, 1994–1999
• USS Vindicator (NMSS-3) — nuclear-powered strategic missile battleship, Fire Lance by David Mace, 1986
• Vingilot — The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien, 1977
• The Walrus — Flint's pirate ship in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
• We're Here — Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks, by Rudyard Kipling, 1897

Series

• A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
  • Ironborn
    • Black Wind
    • Dagger
    • Dagon's Feast
    • Esgred
    • Fingerdancer
    • Foamdrinker
    • Forlorn Hope
    • Golden Storm
    • Great Kraken
    • Grey Ghost
    • Grief
    • Hardhand
    • Iron Lady
    • Iron Vengeance
    • Iron Victory
    • Iron Wind
    • Iron Wing
    • Kite
    • Kraken's Kiss
    • Lamentation
    • Leviathan
    • Lord Dagon
    • Lord Quellon
    • Lord Vickon
    • Maiden's Bane
    • Nightflyer
    • Reapers Wind
    • Red Jester
    • Red Tide
    • Salty Wench
    • Sea Bitch
    • Sea Song
    • Seven Skulls
    • Shark
    • Silence
    • Silverfin
    • Sparrowhawk
    • Swiftin
    • Thrall's Bane
    • Thunderer
    • Warhammer
    • Warrior Wench
    • White Widow
    • Woe
  • The Royal Fleet (Baratheon)
    • King Robert's Hammer
    • Fury
    • Seaswift
    • Lionstar
    • Lady Lyanna
  • Lannister
    • Lord Tywin
    • Sweet Cersei
    • Brave Joffrey
    • Lady Joanna
    • Lioness
    • Queen Margaery
    • Golden Rose
    • Lord Renly
    • Lady Olenna
    • Princess Myrcella
• Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
  • HM Sophie — sloop
  • HM Polychrest — sloop
  • HMS Lively
  • HMS Surprise
  • Nutmeg of Consolation
  • HMS Worcester
  • HEICS Niobe
  • Privateer Franklin
  • HMS Diane
  • USS Norfolk
• Axis of Time trilogy by John Birmingham
  • USS Hillary Clinton — aircraft carrier
  • USS Kandahar
  • USS Leyte Gulf
  • USS Amanda Garrett
  • USS Providence
  • USS Kennebunkport
  • HMS Trident
  • HMS Fearless
  • HMAS Havoc
  • HMAS Moreton Bay
  • HMAS Ipswich
  • JDS Siranui
  • KRI Nuku
  • KRI Sutanto
  • Dessaix
• Biggles series by W. E. Johns
  • SS Alice Clair — British merchant ship
  • Benegal Star — tramp steamer
  • Colonia — British merchant ship
  • Dundee Castle — British merchant ship
  • HMS Seafret — British destroyer
  • Queen of Olati — British steamship
  • Shanodah — British merchant ship
  • Tasman — Australian merchant ship
• Bloody Jack series by Louis A. Meyer
  • HMS Dolphin
  • HMS Hope
  • HMS Wolverine
  • Bloodhound
  • Nancy B. Alsop
  • Belle of the Golden West
  • Emerald
  • HMS Juno
• Bolitho series by Alexander Kent
  • HMS Gorgon
  • HM Avenger — cutter
  • HMS Destiny
  • HMS Trojan
  • HM Sparrow — sloop
  • HMS Phalarope
  • HMS Undine
  • HMS Tempest
  • HMS Hyperion
  • HMS Euryalus
  • HMS Achates
  • HMS Argonaute
  • Golden Plover
  • HMS Unrivalled
  • HMS Athena
  • HMS Onward
  • Nautilus — French frigate
  • HMS Winger — from Corvette Command by Nicholas Monsarrat (based on the real HMS Shearwater)
• The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis
  • Dawn Treader
• Dray Prescot series by Kenneth Bulmer (as Alan Burt Akers)
  • HMS Rockingham
• Edward Mainwaring series by Victor Suthren
  • HMS Pallas
• Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber
  • Black Treasurer
• Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
  • The Durmstrang ship
• Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
  • Balliol College — slave-trader
• Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester
  • HMS Atropos
  • HMS Clorinda
  • HMS Hotspur
  • HMS Justinian
  • HMS Lydia
  • HMS Nonsuch
  • HM Retribution — sloop
  • HMS Sutherland
  • HMS Witch of Endor
  • Mejidieh
  • Speedwell
  • Natividad
  • Estrella
• Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini
  • The Dragon Wing
• Jack Ryan universe series by Tom Clancy
  • Red October — Soviet Typhoon-class submarine
  • V.K. Konovalov — Soviet Alfa-class submarine
  • E.S. Politovsky — Soviet Alfa-class submarine
• Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope
  • HM Triton — brig
  • HMS Calypso
  • HMS Jocasta
  • HMS Dido
• John Fury series by G. S. Beard
  • HMS Amazon — British 32-gun frigate
  • Bedford — merchantman
  • Earl of Mornington — East India Company 24-gun warship
  • Magicienne — French frigate
  • Otter — East India Company 18-gun warship
  • HMS Wasp — British brigantine
• Nathaniel Drinkwater series by Richard Woodman
  • HM Kestrel — cutter
  • HM Hellebore — brig
  • HM Virago — bomb-vessel
  • HMS Melusine
  • HMS Antigone — former French frigate
  • HMS Patrician
  • Vestal — paddle-steamer
• Oz series by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson et al.
  • Crescent Moon
• Para Handy series by Neil Munro
  • Vital Spark
• Paul Gallant series by Victor Suthren
  • Echo — corvette
• Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • • The Gloria Scott
  • "The Five Orange Pips"
    • Lone Star
  • "The Cardboard Box"
    • May Day (Liverpool and London Line)
    • Conqueror (Liverpool and London Line)
  • "The Adventure of Black Peter"
    • Sea Unicorn — whaler
• Southern Victory series by Harry Turtledove
  • USS Chapultepec — aircraft carrier
  • USS Dakota — battleship, The Great War: American Front
  • CSS Fort Sumter — Confederate cruiser, The Great War: American Front
  • CSS Hot Springs — destroyer escort in the Second Great War
  • USS Josephus Daniels — destroyer escort in Second Great War
  • USS Oregon — battleship in Second Great War
  • USS Pocahantas, Arkansas — troop transport named after one of the rare US victories in the Second Mexican War
  • USS Punishment — US river monitor operating on the Mississippi, The Great War: Walk in Hell
  • USS Remembrance  – aircraft carrier
  • Ripple — U.S. fishing boat, The Great War: American Front
  • USS Sandwich Islands
  • CSS Scallop — Confederate submarine, The Great War: American Front
  • Spray — fishing trawler, The Great War: American Front
  • CSS Swamp Fox — Confederate commerce raider, The Great War: American Front
  • USS Trenton — aircraft carrier
  • CSS Whelk — Confederate submarine, The Great War: American Front
• Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome

• Travis McGee series by John D. McDonald
  • Busted Flush — houseboat
  • Munequita
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Thorstein Veblen
  • HooBoy — charter fishing boat
• Zion Chronicles series by Bodie Thoene
  • Ave Maria

Norse mythology

• Hringhorni — the ship of Baldr
• Naglfar — ship in Norse mythology made of the fingernails and toenails of the dead
• Skíðblaðnir — the ship of Freyr

Biblical

• Ark — Noah's ship

Radio

• Empress of Coconut — Potarneyland cruise liner, The Navy Lark
• HMS Goliath — British stealth nuclear submarine, Deep Trouble
• HMS Makepeace — British destroyer, The Navy Lark
• Marie Valette — 18th-century ship sunk in the English Channel, The Navy Lark
• Poppadum — Potarneyland frigate, The Navy Lark
• Saucy Seagull — British fishing trawler, The Navy Lark
• HMS Troutbridge — British frigate, The Navy Lark
• The Scarlet Queen — ketch, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, 1947 radio serial

Stage

• Flying Dutchman — in the opera The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner and other plays, movies and novels
• HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) — Mister Roberts (also appears in novel, films, and TV series versions)

Television

• Queen's Gambit – Arrow
• HMAS Ambush – Patrol Boat
• HMAS Defiance – Patrol Boat
• HMAS Hammersley – Sea Patrol
• HMS Hero (F42) – Warship
• Argonaut – Mike Nelson's boat in Sea Hunt, 1950s series
• Batboat – Batman
• SS Bernice – cargo ship in the Doctor Who serial Carnival of Monsters
• Black Pig – Captain Pugwash, UK children's TV cartoon series
• SS Claridon – ocean liner (based on the RMS Queen Mary) in Ghost Whisperer
• Golden Lolly – pirate ship, Henry's Cat
• Gone Fission – Mr. Burns' yacht in The Simpsons
• Greasy Fleece – pirate ship, Henry's Cat
• Haunted Star – General Hospital
• Horatio Hornblower
  • HMS Indefatigable – frigate (Edward Pellew, Capt.)
  • HMS Hotspur – 20-gun sloop
  • HMS Justinian – 74-gun ship-of-the-line
  • Papillion – French frigate
  • Le Rève – French sloop
• JAG / NCIS universe (many ships)
• Slice of Life – Dexter
• "Leaking Lena" – Captain Hufenpuf's ship, Beany and Cecil
• USS Walter Mondale – laundry ship from The Simpsons, mentioned in the episode "Bart vs. Australia"
• USS Kiwi – The Wackiest Ship in the Army
• SS Lady Anne – cruise ship, "Passage on the Lady Anne" episode of The Twilight Zone
• USS Lexington  – US aircraft carrier in "The Mission", episode 5 of Designated Survivor
• HMS Lindana – sloop, Phineas and Ferb
• USS Massachusetts – 24: Live Another Day
• SS Minnow – Gilligan's Island
• SS Minnow II – Rescue from Gilligan's Island
• SS Moldavia – passenger ship, You Rang, M'Lord?
• USS Monroe (DD-211) – The Pretender
• SS More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk Put Together – Peter Griffin's boat on Family Guy
• SS Tiny Tub – rented tugboat from Tiny Toon Adventures episode "No Toon Is an Island"
• The Onedin Line series
  • Anne Onedin – steamship, portrayed in the series by the schooner Charlotte Rhodes with a false funnel, wheelhouse amidships, and aft deckhouse
  • Charlotte Rhodes – first ship of James Onedin (This was in fact an actual schooner named "Charlotte Rhodes", ^[5] née "Meta Jan", née "Eva". In 1979 it was destroyed at Amsterdam harbour by arson.^[6])
  • Medusa
  • Pampero
  • Soren Larsen (This was in fact an actual ship, a brigantine, and is still sailing today out of New Zealand.) ^[7]
• Naughty Jane – rowboat, Dad's Army
• Persephone – log salvage boat from The Beachcombers
• Piper Maru – French ship from The X-Files episode "Piper Maru"
• USS Allegiance – U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine from The X-Files episode "End Game"
• USS Ardent – U.S. Navy destroyer escort from The X-Files episode "Død Kalm"
• PT 73 – the PT boat from McHale's Navy
• PT-116 – McHale's Navy
• SS Queen of Glasgow – passenger ship, "Judgment Night" episode of The Twilight Zone
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) – World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (also appears in novel, play and film versions)
• SS Tipton – The Suite Life on Deck
• USOS Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
• seaQuest DSV 4600 – seaQuest DSV
• USS Sea Spanker – aircraft carrier, from the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of The Simpsons
• SkyDiver – UFO, 1970–1971
• Sultana – The Buccaneers, 1956
• Thunderbird 4 – Thunderbirds, 1964
• Temperance  – Bones
• Tiki III – schooner in Adventures in Paradise, 1960s series by James Michener
• Thunder – super speedboat in Thunder in Paradise, 1994
• Vast Explorer – Adventure Inc., 2003
• S.S. Vondel – passenger ship in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, sunk in a pirate attack
• X-2 – The Venture Bros.
• Zuko's Fire Nation ship – Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Last Resort universe
  • USS Colorado (SSBN-753) – fictional Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine
  • USS Patrick Lawrence (DDG-112) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer
• Unnamed ghost ship – from SpongeBob SquarePants, where the Flying Dutchman lives
• RMS Sunshine – setting for the BBC television variety programme Cabaret Cruise, 1937–49
• USS Georgetown – Supercarrier, 1988
• The Last Ship Universe
  • USS Nathan James (DDG-151) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, The Last Ship, 2014^[8]
  • USS Shackleton (DDG-162) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, The Last Ship, 2016^[9]
  • USS Hayward (DDG-157) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, The Last Ship, 2016
  • HMS Achilles (Hull Number Unknown) – fictional Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, The Last Ship, 2015
  • RFS Vyerni (Hull Number Unknown) – fictional Kirov-class battlecruiser, The Last Ship, 2014
  • USNS Solace (T-AH-21) – fictional Mercy-class hospital ship, The Last Ship, 2015

Video games

• SS Anne — ocean liner in Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
• SS Royale  – party boat in Party Hard
• The Antaeus  – "adaptive cruiser" in Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
• Arsenal Gear  – submersible mobile fortress from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• Dagat Ahas  – Philippine (Oceana Cooperative Union) naval fortress ship in Front Mission 3
• USS Clarence E. Walsh (CG-80)  – guided-missile cruiser from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
• Maria Narcissa  – freighter featured in the second story mission of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
• USS Daedalus (CVN-88)  – nuclear-powered supercarrier from Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
• Eastern Spirit — decommissioned Russian whaler rebuilt to serve as a supply ship and secondary laboratory in Cold Fear
• HMS Endurance – science vessel in Tomb Raider
• Scinfaxi & Hrimfaxi — aircraft carrier submarines featured in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
• Gangplank Galleon — Donkey Kong Country series
• Jolly Roger's ship — Super Mario 64
• OFS Kestrel – aircraft carrier in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
• OFS Andromeda – cruiser in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, used for intelligence gathering purposes
• USS Khe Sanh (LHD-9)  – Wasp-class amphibious assault ship from ArmA II
• USS Liberty – amphibious assault ship in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Luna Lucura — cargo vessel in Chaos Island: The Lost World
• Maria Doria — Tomb Raider 2
• Outer Haven  – submersible battleship from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Salty Hippo  – Captain Blubber's ship in the Banjo-Kazooie series of games
• USS Barack Obama (CVN-08), Call of Duty: Black Ops II
• Elisabeth Dane — small cargo ship Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
• The Endurance – research vessel in Tomb Raider 2013
• USS Ravenswood — coast guard ship in Cold Fear
• Borealis — abandoned ship in Half-Life 2 Episode 2 and Portal 2
• Charon — cargo ship in Max Payne
• S.S. Selene — cargo vessel commanded by Ronnie Olsen in Freedom Wings
• RMS Artanic  – Royal Mail Ship commanded by Antares Andrews in Blockland
• S.S. Zelbess (alternately the S.S. Invincible)  – in Chrono Cross
• Palanquin Ship  – floating ghost ship in Touhou's Undefined Fantastic Object
• Marie Elena  – pirate ship in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Unnamed ship shaped like a rubber duck  – used in LittleBigPlanet 2 to travel from Avalonia to Eve's Asylum for the Mentally Alternative
• The Jackdaw  – Edward Kenway's pirate ship in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• The Morrigan  – Shay Patrick Cormac's ship in Assassins Creed: Rogue
• Eva's Hammer – large Kriegsmarine nuclear submarine from Wolfenstein: The New Order
• General Skiseava  – sentient battleship that guards the Q-Stein Empire's shores in Seek and Destroy
• USS Liberator – America's last aircraft carrier, Call of Duty: Ghosts
• Rusalka – Soviet cargo ship hiding a numbers station in Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Pearl – Soviet freighter that sank in 1951 whilst assigned to the top-secret E99 project Singularity
• U-4901 and U-4902  – Kriegsmarine sister ships from the Medal of Honor games, both destroyed by Jimmy Patterson

Folklore

• HMS Friday  – a popular urban legend of the British Royal Navy
• Flying Dutchman
• Courser or the Tuscarora, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong's clipper ship

See also

• Flying submarine
• Submarine films

References

1. Intrepid
2. MacRae, Fiona. "Fantastic Voyage II: Blood vessel microscopic submarine makes sci-fi reality". Daily Mail. London.
3. Brinkley, William (February 1989). The Last Ship (Paperback ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. p. 131. ISBN 0345359828. waters before being relieved by our sister ship, the USS Cantwell
4. Brinkley, William (February 1989). The Last Ship (Paperback ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. p. 21. ISBN 0345359828. USS Nathan James, DDG 80, guided missile destroyer, first of her class,
5. [The World of the Onedin Line - Copyright © 1977 Alison McLeay]
6. Joan Coburn-Moon, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, Daily Mail, 27 June 2000
7. http://www.sorenlarsen.co.nz/
8. Webb, Justin L. (November 9, 2012). "Naval Base San Diego; USS Halsey featured in "The Last Ship"". United States Navy. Department of Defense. Retrieved April 15, 2013. Production teams filmed on board NBSD and Halsey in order to capture this post-apocalyptic story of Capt. Tom Chandler and the crew of USS Nathan James (DDG 151).
9. "The Last Ship Trailer | San Diego Comic Con | TNT". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-07-25.