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, a 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 - A United Nations aircraft carrier from Macross Zero
• Asuka II (CVN-99) - A United Nations (formerly with Japan Maritime Self Defense Force) aircraft carrier from Macross Zero
• SS Naked Sun - An aircraft carrier from Kill la Kill

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 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 1930's cruise ship in Triangle, 2009
• African Queen – The African Queen, 1951 with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn
• 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
• SS Antonia Graza – derelict Italian luxury ocean liner in Ghost Ship
• Aquanaut 3 - experimental submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
• Arabella – Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935
• Argo – galley Jason and the Argonauts, Jason and the Argonauts
• Argonautica – cruise ship Deep Rising
• USS Aspen – Full Fathom Five
• HMS Avenger – Billy Budd 1962
• Batavia Queen – steamship Krakatoa, East of Java 1969
• HMS Bedford – British Royal Navy Type 23-class frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
• USS Bedford (DLG-113) – The Bedford Incident (also in book version)
• Belafonte – oceanographic research vessel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• 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
• USS Caine – The Caine Mutiny (Also appears in written version)
• Caledonia II - Some Like It Hot
• USS Charleston - On the Beach, 2000
• HMS Chester – British Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
• USS Davies (SSN-???) - Los Angeles-class SSN in Crash Dive, 1996
• HMS Devonshire – British Type 23 frigate sunk in Tomorrow Never Dies
• SS Chiku Shan – ferryboat – Blood Alley (1955)
• SS Claridon – ocean liner in The Last Voyage 1960
• HMS Compass Rose – Second World War Flower-class corvette in The Cruel Sea, 1953
• USS Copperfin – World War II sub Destination Tokyo, 1943 w/ Cary Grant
• SS Crescent Star, cruise ship that sinks in Seven Waves Away
• Deep Quest - DSV in Raise the Titanic!
• HMS Defiant – frigate in HMS Defiant, 1962
• 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
• Elizabeth Dane – The Fog
• Empress – Chinese junk – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• HMS Endeavour – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• MS Ergenstrasse – The Sea Chase (1955) with John Wayne and Lana Turner, and Patriot Games (1992) with Harrison Ford.
• SS Essess - Hot Shots!, 1991
• Flying Dutchman – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• The Flying Wasp – Caddy Shack 1980
• Geronimo – America's Cup racing yacht, Wind 1992
• Ghost – sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf 1941
• Glencairn – freighter – The Long Voyage Home
• Gloria N – E la nave va..., Federico Fellini
• SS Goliath – ocean liner – Goliath Awaits – TV film 1981
• Hahnchen Maru – cargo vessel modified to command ship – Contact, 1997
• Hai Peng – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• SS Happy Wanderer – cruise liner – Carry On Cruising
• USS Haynes (DE-181) – destroyer escort, The Enemy Below
• The Henrietta - paddle steamer - Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
• Immer Essen ("Always eating") – cruise ship, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• The Inferno – The Goonies
• HMS Interceptor – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• USS Intrepid – cruise ship in the film Intrepid
• Jenny – Forrest Gump
• Jenny - Tug boat in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
• 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 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
• Love Nest – A whaling ship in the 1923 Buster Keaton film The Love Nest
• 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, The Fifth Missile
• Morning Star —Cutthroat Island 1995
• Nathan Ross – whaling ship, All the Brothers Were Valiant 1953
• Nautilus – Captain Nemo's 1860s submarine – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City 1969, Mysterious Island, The Return of Captain Nemo 1978, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003
• HMS Nereid - Royal Navy submarine, Virus, 1980
• Ning-Po Freighter owned by SPECTRE in You Only Live Twice
• USS Oakland (SSN-798) - Los Angeles Class SSN in Steel Sharks, 1996
• Orca – Quint's fishing boat, 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 in the 1937 Jean Authur/Charles Boyer film History Is Made At Night
• Q Boat – Q's 'fishing boat' The World Is Not Enough 1999
• Proteus - nuclear mini submarine from the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage.
• 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 novel by Tom Clancy, 1984 and The Hunt For Red October film with Sean Connery, 1990
• 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)
• U-571 appears in U-571, coincidently same number as German submarine U-''571''
• Rights-of-Man – Billy Budd, 1962
• Rob Roy – commercial freighter, Windbag the Sailor, 1936
• USS San Pablo – The Sand Pebbles, 1966
• HMS Saltash Castle – Second World War frigate in The Cruel Sea, 1953
• Saracen – yacht, Dead Calm
• USS Sawfish – On the Beach, 1959
• USS Scotia - submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
• Sea Cliff - DSV in Raise the Titanic!
• Sea Star – tug in Virus, 1999
• HMS Sea Tiger – Second World War submarine, We Dive at Dawn, 1943
• USS Sea Tiger – World War II submarine, Operation Petticoat 1959; also TV series 1977
• SS Sea Witch – Action in the North Atlantic 1943
• SSNR Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1961 with Walter Pidgeon
• 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. Is based on the real life Sea Shadow (IX-529) 1997
• St. Georges – British spy ship trawler For Your Eyes Only 1981
• USS Starfish – Hellcats of the Navy
• Starfish - DSV in Raise the Titanic!
• USS Stingray - Balao-class submarine, Down Periscope, 1996 with Kelsey Grammer; 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, 1954 with John Wayne
• USS Tigerfish (SSN 509) - United States nuclear submarine from Ice Station Zebra.
• USS Tiger Shark – The Atomic Submarine
• HMS Torrin – In Which We Serve, 1942
• Turtle - DSV in Raise the Titanic!
• Ulysses – submarine, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
• 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, 1992 with Martin Short and Kurt Russell
• We're Here – Captains Courageous, 1937 with Spencer Tracy
• Wonkatania – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (also appears in 2005 adaptation), based on the Cunard Line tradition of ending ships with an -ania (i.e., RMS Lusitania and RMS Aquitania)
• Yellow Submarine – The Beatles' psychedelic submarine

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
• Alice May — from the poem The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service
• Anchises — One of Ours by Willa Cather
• HMS Antigone - Leander class cruiser - The Cruiser by Warren Tute, 1955
• Arabella — Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 1924
• Argo — Jason and the Argonauts
• Artemis — Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
• 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), a 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
• Britannia - Captain Grant's ship in In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne.
• HMS Broadsword - Royal Navy Destroyer - A ship involved in an intentional incident in First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
• BRP Cagayan de Oro - a Philippine Navy Whidbey Island class LSD - Dragon Strike - The Millennium War by Humphrey Hawksley and Simon Holberton, 1997
• USS Caine — The Caine Mutiny (also appears in film version)
• HMS Calypso — frigate — The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester
• USS Cantwell — The Last Ship by William C. Brinkley, 1988
• USS Carl Jackson — Nimitz-class aircraft carrier — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• HMS Bedford – British Royal Navy Type 23-class frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
• SS Carnatic - Steamer in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, running from Hong-Kong to Yokohama.
• China - Steamer in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, running from New York to Liverpool.
• SS Claridon — The Last Voyage
• 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
• Demeter — Russian schooner in Dracula by Bram Stoker
• 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
• Fin of God — Omnian ship, Small Gods
• The Fuwalda — Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914. The ship which took Tarzan's parents to Africa.
• General Grant - Steamer in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, running from Yokohama to San Francisco.
• Ghost — sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904
• The Glen Carrig — From the horror novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
• The Gloria Scott — from the earliest Sherlock Holmes story, by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Grenouille Frénétique (Frantic Frog) — pirate ship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
• Großadmiral Dönitz - Kriegsmarine nuclear submarine - Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
• Großadmiral Raeder - Kriegsmarine aircraft carrier - Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
• Henrietta - Paddle steamer in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, chartered by Phileas Fogg between New York and Liverpool.
• The Hesperus — from the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• HISPANIOLA (capitalized throughout the story) — Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
• Ilya Podogin - Soviet SSN - Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995
• USS Independence, a fictional Wasp-class amphibious assault ship where a large part of the plot from The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place.
• HMS Indomitable — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
• Jeroboam — Moby-Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville
• Jolly Roger — Captain Hook's pirate ship — Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
• USS Keeling — The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester
• Korund — Tango Class submarine — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• USS Langley — a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier — The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman
• Laughing Sandbag — pirate ship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
• Leif Ericson — The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, 1975
• USS Mako, a United States Navy submarine in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
• Marie Celeste — J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement by Arthur Conan Doyle (the real ship was Mary Celeste)
• Mary Deare — The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
• Milka — Jingo (name parodies the Pinta)
• Mongolia - Steamer in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, running from Brindisi to Suez and Bombay.
• Mortzestus — From the horror novel The Ghost Pirates
• Nancy Bell - The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by W. S. Gilbert
• USS Nathan James (DDG-80), Nathan James-class guided missile destroyer — The Last Ship by William C. Brinkley, 1988
• Nautilus — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island
• 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
• HMS Orcus - Oberon class submarine - Submarine by John Wingate, 1982
• Pacific Klondike - Deep ocean drillship - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• Penguin — The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
• Pequod — Moby-Dick,or The Whale, by Herman Melville, 1851
• Pharaoh - in The Count of Monte Cristo. the ship on which Edmond Dantès first sailed
• Plymouth Corporation's Revenge — pirate ship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
• Pocahontas - in 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
• USS Pyramus — Polaris missile-carrying SSBN - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman, 1967
• Queequeg — The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket, 2004
• Rachel — Moby-Dick, or The Whale, in search of the Pequod
• Rangoon - Steamer in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, running from Calcutta to Hong-Kong
• Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch by Garland Roark
• 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 (also appears in play, film and TV series versions)
• Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
• Rocketing Spitfire — sloop — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
• HMS Saltash — The Cruel Sea (HMS Saltash Castle in the film)
• USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
• Santa Cascara (later HMS Golden Vanity) — Spanish galleon captured by the British — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
• Santa Umbriago — Spanish warship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
• HMS Saturn - Swiftsure Class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• USS Scorpion — On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957
• USS Sea Trench - Aquarius Mission by Martin Caidin, 1978
• The Sea Witch — a yacht in 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, a 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, a United States Navy submarine tender in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
• Tankadère - Schooner in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, chartered by Phileas Fogg between Hong-Kong and Yokohama.
• USS Thomas Jefferson — Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson
• HMS Thunder Child  — The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• SS Titan  — Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson, 1898
• Twelve Apostles — passenger ship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
• U-174 - Kriegsmarine U-boat - Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
• HMS Ulysses — HMS Ulysses
• SS Valparaiso — Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow
• USS Vindicator (NMSS-3) — Nuclear-powered strategic missile battleship, Fire Lance by David Mace, 1986
• Vingilot — The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Walrus — Flint's pirate ship in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• We're Here — Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks, by Rudyard Kipling, 1896

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 Sloop Sophie
  • HM Sloop Polychrest
  • 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
  • HMS Dolphin by L.A. Meyer
  • 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 Cutter Avenger
  • HMS Destiny
  • HMS Trojan
  • HM Sloop Sparrow
  • 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 CS Forester
  • HMS Atropos
  • HMS Clorinda
  • HMS Hotspur
  • HMS Justinian
  • HMS Lydia
  • HMS Nonsuch
  • HM Sloop Retribution
  • HMS Sutherland
  • HMS Witch of Endor
  • Mejidieh
  • Natividad
  • Estrella
  • Clorinda
• Inheritance cycle series by Christopher Paolini
  • The Dragon Wing
• Jack Ryan universe series by Tom Clancy
  • Red October, a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine
  • V.K. Konovalov, a Soviet Alfa-class submarine
  • E.S. Politovsky, a Soviet Alfa-class submarine
• Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope
  • HM Brig Triton
  • 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 Cutter Kestrel
  • HM Brig Hellebore
  • HM Bomb-vessel Virago
  • 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 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

Further information: List of boats in Arthur Ransome books

• 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, a ship in Norse mythology made of the fingernails and toenails of the dead
• Skíðblaðnir, the ship of Freyr

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, ' 50s series
• Batboat – Batman
• SS Bernice – a 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 – 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 from Dexter
• "Leaking Lena" Captain Hufenpuf's ship from 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
• HMS Lindana - sloop - Phineas and Ferb
• USS Massachusetts - 24: Live Another Day
• SS Minnow – Gilligan's Island
• SS Minnow II - The boat in 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 a Island
• The Onedin Line series
  • Anne Onedin – a 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" [The World of the Onedin Line - Copyright © 1977 Alison McLeay], née "Meta Jan", née "Eva". In 1979 it was destroyed at Amsterdam harbour by arson.)
  • Medusa
  • Pampero
  • Soren Larsen (This was in fact an actual ship, a brigantine, and is still sailing today out of New Zealand. See http://www.sorenlarsen.co.nz/)
• 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
• USNS Solace – hospital ship, The Last Ship
• 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
• 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
• USS Nathan James (DDG-151), fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, The Last Ship, 2014
• An unnamed ghost ship from SpongeBob SquarePants where the Flying Dutchman lives
• RMS Sunshine, setting for the BBC Television variety programme Cabaret Cruise 1937–49

Video games

• SS Anne — Ocean Liner in Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
• SS Royale - Party boat in Party Hard
• The Antaeus, an "adaptive cruiser" in Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
• Arsenal Gear, a submersible mobile fortress from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• Dagat Ahas - A Philippine (Oceana Cooperative Union) naval fortress ship in Front Mission 3
• USS Clarence E. Walsh (CG-80), a guided-missile cruiser from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
• Maria Narcissa, a freighter featured in the second story mission of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
• USS Daedalus (CVN-88), a nuclear-powered supercarrier from Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
• Eastern Spirit — decommissioned Russian whaler rebuilt to serve as supply-ship and secondary laboratory in Cold Fear
• HMS Endurance, a 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, an aircraft carrier in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
• OFS Andromeda, A 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, an 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 - a submersible battleship from the 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, A research vessel in Tomb Raider 2013
• USS Ravenswood — Coastguard 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 - A floating ghost ship in Touhou's Undefined Fantastic Object
• Marie Elena - A pirate ship in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• An 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-a large Kriegsmarine nuclear submarine from Wolfenstein: The New Order.
• General Skiseava-a 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-a 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