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