Anime and manga

• Blue 6, Shang 9 — Blue Submarine No. 6
  Blue Submarine No. 6
  is a post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Ozawa, first published in 1967, which was subsequently developed into a four-episode original video animation series by Gonzo.- Plot :...
  
  
• Going Merry — One Piece
  One Piece
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 64th volume released as...
  
  
• Thousand Sunny — One Piece
  One Piece
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 64th volume released as...
  
  
• JDS Mirai
  DDG-182 Mirai
  The JDS Mirai, DDG-182, is a fictional ship created for the anime series Zipang. The central point of the plot of the anime is that the modern warship Mirai is transported back sixty years through time to the year 1942 on the eve of the Battle of Midway...
  
   — Zipang
  Zipang (anime)
  is a twenty-six episode Japanese anime television series directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and produced by Studio Deen. It aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System in Japan from late 2004 to early 2005, and was licensed for release in North America by Geneon Entertainment with DVD release starting in...
  
  
• Over the Rainbow, (a renamed ) — Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Pascal Magi — Tactical Roar
  Tactical Roar
  is a Japanese anime television series set in a not-too-distant future. The series is around all-female crew of the commercial Warship, the Pascal Magi. The series is mix of serious combat, political intrigue, light romance, and comedy. A classic story of the underdogs trying prove their worth...
  
  
• Ghost Ship — Blue Submarine No. 6
  Blue Submarine No. 6
  is a post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Ozawa, first published in 1967, which was subsequently developed into a four-episode original video animation series by Gonzo.- Plot :...
  
  
• Super 99 — Submarine Super 99
  Submarine Super 99
  is a television series created by Leiji Matsumoto. Video was distributed by TV Tokyo.Enoki Films USA Inc. holds the distribution rights of English version, but it is not releasing it.-Story:...
  
  
• Thundersub — Thundersub
• Tuatha de Danaan — Full Metal Panic!
  Full Metal Panic!
  is an ongoing series of light novels written by Shoji Gatoh and illustrated by Shiki Douji. The series follows Sousuke Sagara, a member of the covert anti-terrorist private military organization known as Mithril, tasked with protecting Kaname Chidori, a spirited Japanese high school girl.Individual...
  
  
• Zuko's Fire Nation ship
• Yamato Takeru - super battleship, Kyokujitsu no Kantai.
• Takemikazuchi - aircraft carrier, Konpeki no Kantai
• I-3000 - supersubmarine, Konpeki no Kantai
• Yashiromaru
  Yashiromaru
  Yashiromaru is a fictional cargo ship in Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths. The ship was built by and owned by Yashiro group, a company of Japan. 15 years ago, before St. Aphrodite, another ship built by and owned by Yashiro group sail on its final voyage, Yashiromaru was sailed on a foggy night...
  
   — Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths
  Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths
  Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths, known as in Japan, is the 9th Case Closed feature film released on April 9, 2005. The movie resulted in 2.15 billion yen.- Plot :...
  
  
• St. Aphrodite — Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths
• Blue - Blue Drop
  Blue Drop
  is a Japanese science fiction yuri manga created by Akihito Yoshitomi. It comprises five chapters that were serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Comic Gao! from June 2004 to December 2005, and later collected into a single volume...
  
  
• Space Battleship Yamato
  Space Battleship Yamato
  is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers...
  
  - Space Battleship Yamato
• Super Dimension Fortress One (SDF-1) Macross
  SDF-1 Macross
  The SDF-1 Macross is a fictional interstellar transforming spacecraft from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, an anime science fiction series that aired in Japan in 1982–1983, and its American adaptation Robotech...
  
  - Robotech

Comics

• Aurora — trawler in The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  story The Shooting Star
  The Shooting Star
  The Shooting Star is the tenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip books that were written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero....
  
  and also from The Sign of Four from Sherlock Holmes
• The Black Freighter — a metafictional pirate ship that is referenced throughout the Watchmen
  Watchmen
  Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form...
  
  comic series
• Borneo Prince — 19th century trading vessel converted for use as a gunboat in World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   in Commando Comics
  Commando Comics
  Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, are a series of British comic books that primarily draw their themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the World Wars I and II...
  
  
• Cithara — alleged source distress signal in The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  story The Shooting Star
  The Shooting Star
  The Shooting Star is the tenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip books that were written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero....
  
  
• HMS Cutlass - the name given to four ships of the Royal Navy
  Royal Navy
  The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
  
   - the first a battleship present at the Battle of the Nile
  Battle of the Nile
  The Battle of the Nile was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1–3 August 1798...
  
  ; the second an ironclad sunk in World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  ; the third a World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   destroyer, and the most recent ship a Cold War
  Cold War
  The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
  
  -era destroyer. All four ships appear in the Commando Comics
  Commando Comics
  Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, are a series of British comic books that primarily draw their themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the World Wars I and II...
  
  story Bright Blade of Courage
• Eagle's Shadow — Sir Nicholas Fury's ship in Marvel 1602
  Marvel 1602
  Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers...
  
  
• Grossadler - Kriegsmarine
  Kriegsmarine
  The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...
  
   destroyer, from the Commando Comics
  Commando Comics
  Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, are a series of British comic books that primarily draw their themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the World Wars I and II...
  
  story Bright Blade of Courage
• Hawksub — Blackhawk
  Blackhawk (comics)
  Blackhawk, a long-running comic book series, was also a film serial, a radio series and a novel. The comic book was published first by Quality Comics and later by DC Comics. The series was created by Will Eisner, Chuck Cuidera, and Bob Powell, but the artist most associated with the feature is Reed...
  
  
• Karaboudjan — cargo ship in The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  story The Crab with the Golden Claws
  The Crab with the Golden Claws
  The Crab with the Golden Claws is the ninth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero...
  
  
• SS Ramona — tramp steamer in The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  story The Red Sea Sharks
  The Red Sea Sharks
  The Red Sea Sharks is the nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero...
  
  
• Sea Queen/The Gertrude — Lex Luthor
  Lex Luthor
  Lex Luthor is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and the archenemy of Superman, although given his high status as a supervillain, he has also come into conflict with Batman and other superheroes in the DC Universe. Created by Jerry Siegel and...
  
  's yacht in Superman Returns
  Superman Returns
  Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film directed by Bryan Singer. It is the fifth and final installment in the original Superman film series and serves as a alternate sequel to Superman and Superman II by ignoring the events of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace .The film stars...
  
  
• Sirius — expedition ship in The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  story Red Rackham's Treasure
  Red Rackham's Treasure
  Red Rackham's Treasure is the twelfth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. It is a continuation of The Secret of the Unicorn, and is one of very few Tintin...
  
  
• Sirius — ship in The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  story The Shooting Star
  The Shooting Star
  The Shooting Star is the tenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip books that were written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero....
  
  
• The Unicorn
  The Unicorn
  The Unicorn is the second album by Irish folk music group The Irish Rovers, released in 1967.The title track The Unicorn, a recording of Shel Silverstein's poem, reached #7 in the U.S...
  
   — 17th. century wooden sailing warship in The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
  stories The Secret of the Unicorn
  The Secret of the Unicorn
  The Secret of the Unicorn is the eleventh title in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin, written and illustrated by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Designed to be the first volume in a two-part story, the plot of The Secret of the Unicorn was continued in the twelfth Tintin adventure, Red...
  
  and Red Rackham's Treasure
  Red Rackham's Treasure
  Red Rackham's Treasure is the twelfth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. It is a continuation of The Secret of the Unicorn, and is one of very few Tintin...
  
  
• HMS Viper - British destroyer, from the Commando Comics
  Commando Comics
  Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, are a series of British comic books that primarily draw their themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the World Wars I and II...
  
  story Bright Blade of Courage
• Vulkan - Kriegsmarine
  Kriegsmarine
  The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...
  
   cruiser, from the Commando Comics
  Commando Comics
  Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, are a series of British comic books that primarily draw their themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the World Wars I and II...
  
  story Flak Fever

Film

• 903 - Iranian Kilo class submarine
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
   in Steel Sharks, 1996
• USS Abraham Lincoln — frigate in Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 adventure film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil. It was the first science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Productions, as well as the only science-fiction...
  
  , 1954
• Academic Vladislav Volkov — Russian research ship in Virus
  Virus (1999 film)
  Virus is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland...
  
  , 1999
• Acheron — French Napoleonic frigate in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios...
  
  , 2003
• African Queen — The African Queen, 1951 with Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
  
   and Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
  
  
• Albatross — The Sea Hawk
  The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
  The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The film's screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I...
  
  with Errol Flynn
  Errol Flynn
  Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, being a legend and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Early life:...
  
  , 1940
• Amindra — with shanghaied sailor from the Glencairn, torpedoed and sank in The Long Voyage Home
  The Long Voyage Home
  The Long Voyage Home is an American drama film and directed by John Ford. It features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond, among others....
  
  , 1940
• SS Andes — cruise ship in Let's Go Native
  Let's Go Native
  Let's Go Native, is a 1930 American black-and-white musical comedy film, directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures.A very memorable, witty quote is when Jerry comments on being the only man on an island populated by women...
  
  , 1930
• SS Antonia Graza — derelict Italian luxury ocean liner in Ghost Ship
• Aquanaut 3 - experimental submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  30,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 2007 film that is a modern update on the classic book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It stars Lorenzo Lamas as Lt. Aronnaux and Sean Lawlor as the misanthropic Captain Nemo...
  
  , 2007
• Arabella — Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935
• Argo — galley Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film), Jason and the Argonauts (TV miniseries)
• Argonautica — cruise ship Deep Rising
  Deep Rising
  Deep Rising is a 1998 action horror film directed by Stephen Sommers. It was distributed by Hollywood Pictures and Cinergi Pictures, and was released in the United States on January 30, 1998.-Plot:...
  
  
• USS Aspen — Full Fathom Five
  Full Fathom Five (film)
  Full Fathom Five is an action film from 1990, written by Bart Davis and directed by Carl Franklin, starring Michael Moriarty, Maria Rangel, and Diego Bertie.-Synopsis:Full Fathom Five, based on the novel by...
  
  
• HMS Avenger — Billy Budd
  Billy Budd (film)
  Billy Budd is a 1962 film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere...
  
  1962
• Batavia Queen — steamship Krakatoa, East of Java
  Krakatoa, East of Java
  Krakatoa, East of Java is a movie starring Maximilian Schell and Brian Keith. This film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.-Plot:...
  
  1969
• HMS Bedford — British Type 23 frigate
  Type 23 frigate
  The Type 23 frigate is a class of frigate built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. All the ships were first named after British Dukes, thus the class is also known as the Duke class. The first Type 23 was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, was launched in May 2000 and commissioned in...
  
  in Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering...
  
  1997
• USS Bedford (DLG-113) — The Bedford Incident
  The Bedford Incident
  The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark. The cast also features James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox and Eric Portman, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop...
  
  (also in book version)
• Belafonte — oceanographic research vessel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is an American comedy-drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. It is Anderson's fourth feature length film, released in the U.S. on December 25, 2004...
  
  
• USS Belinda (APA-22) — Away All Boats
  Away All Boats
  Away All Boats is a 1956 American war film produced by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Joseph Pevney and produced by Howard Christie from a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman based on the 1953 novel by Kenneth M. Dodson....
  
  , 1956 (Also appears in original novel)
• Benthic Explorer — offshore support ship — The Abyss
  The Abyss
  The Abyss is a 1989 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. The original musical score was composed by Alan Silvestri...
  
  1989
• Black Hawk — The Pirate of the Black Hawk (Il Pirata dello sparviero nero) 1958
• Black Pearl
  Black Pearl
  The Black Pearl, originally Wicked Wench, is a fictional ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. In the screenplay, the Black Pearl is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails. The ship was originally named Wicked Wench before she was ordered burned and sunk by Lord Beckett...
  
  (formerly HMS Wicked Wench) — slaver turned pirate ship Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure fantasy film based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
  
• Black Swan — The Black Swan
  The Black Swan (film)
  The Black Swan is a 1942 swashbuckler Technicolor film by Henry King, based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini, and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won one for Best Cinematography, Color.-Plot:...
  
  1942
• Brandenburg — World War II German battleship in We Dive at Dawn
  We Dive at Dawn
  We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War. It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Frank Launder...
  
  1943
• SS Britannic — cruise ship in Juggernaut
  Juggernaut (film)
  Juggernaut is a 1974 British thriller film. It was produced by David V. Picker Productions and released in 1974 by United Artists. The film was directed by Richard Lester, who took over after directors Bryan Forbes and Don Medford each left the project in pre-production.On taking over the film,...
  
  
• USS Caine — The Caine Mutiny
  The Caine Mutiny
  The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships...
  
  (Also appears in written version)
• USS Charleston - On the Beach
  On the Beach (2000 film)
  On the Beach is an apocalyptic television movie released in 2000, airing originally on Showtime. It is a remake of the 1959 film, and is based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute. It starred Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward...
  
  , 2000
• HMS Chester — British Type 23 frigate
  Type 23 frigate
  The Type 23 frigate is a class of frigate built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. All the ships were first named after British Dukes, thus the class is also known as the Duke class. The first Type 23 was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, was launched in May 2000 and commissioned in...
  
   in Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering...
  
  1997
• SSN Davies (SSN-???) - Los Angeles Class
  Los Angeles class submarine
  The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 43 submarines on active duty and 19 retired, the Los Angeles class is the most numerous nuclear powered...
  
   SSN in Crash Dive, 1996
• HMS Devonshire
  HMS Devonshire
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Devonshire, originally in honour of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, and later after the county of Devonshire ....
  
   — British Type 23 frigate sunk in Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering...
  
  
• SS Chiku Shan — ferryboat — Blood Alley
  Blood Alley
  Blood Alley is a 1955 seafaring adventure movie starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall set in China.-Background:The film was written by Albert Sidney Fleischman from his novel, directed by William Wellman and was produced by Wayne's Batjac Productions...
  
  (1955)
• SS Claridon — ocean liner in The Last Voyage
  The Last Voyage
  The Last Voyage is a 1960 American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone.The screenplay centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room...
  
  1960
• HMS Compass Rose — Second World War corvette in The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (film)
  The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British film from Ealing Studios starring Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden, with Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister...
  
  , 1953
• USS Copperfin — World War II sub Destination Tokyo
  Destination Tokyo
  Destination Tokyo is a 1943 submarine war film. It was directed by Delmer Daves and written by Daves, Steve Fisher and Albert Maltz, and stars Cary Grant and John Garfield with featured performances by Dane Clark, Robert Hutton and Warner Anderson. Production began on June 21, 1943 and continued...
  
  , 1943 w/ Cary Grant
• HMS Dauntless — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure fantasy film based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
  
• HMS Defiant — frigate in HMS Defiant
  HMS Defiant
  H.M.S. Defiant is a British film released in 1962 starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde. It tells the story of a mutiny aboard the fictitious ship of the title at around the time of the Spithead Mutiny. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from the novel Mutiny by...
  
  , 1962
• Disco Volante
  Disco Volante (ship)
  The Disco Volante is a fictional ship in the James Bond novel Thunderball and its 1965 film adaptation of the same name. It was a hydrofoil craft owned by Emilio Largo, an agent of SPECTRE. It was purchased with SPECTRE funds for £200,000. The craft plays a pivotal role in the seizure and...
  
   — motor yacht/hydrofoil in Thunderball
  Thunderball (film)
  Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham...
  
  1965
• USS Dragonfish — U.S. Submarine in Battle of the Coral Sea 1959
• Dulcibella — The Riddle of the Sands
  The Riddle of the Sands
  The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is an early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism...
  
  1979
• USS Echo — sailing ship from The Wackiest Ship in the Army
  The Wackiest Ship in the Army (film)
  The Wackiest Ship in the Army is a 1960 CinemaScope comedy-drama war film starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson and Chips Rafferty. It was filmed at Pearl Harbor and Kauai.-Plot summary:...
  
  , 1959
• Edinburgh Trader — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . It was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by...
  
  
• Elizabeth Dane — The Fog
  The Fog
  The Fog is a 1980 horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and composed the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins and Janet Leigh...
  
  
• Elsinore — The Mutiny of the Elsinore 1937
• 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
  The Sea Chase
  The Sea Chase is a 1955 World War II drama film starring John Wayne and Lana Turner. It was directed by John Farrow and written by James Warner Bellah. The plot is basically a nautical cat and mouse game, with Wayne determined to get his German freighter home during the first few months of the war,...
  
  (1955) with John Wayne and Lana Turner, and Patriot Games
  Patriot Games (film)
  Patriot Games is a 1992 film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy's the novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October. In the movie, Jack Ryan is played by Harrison Ford, Jack's surgeon-wife, Dr...
  
  (1992) with Harrison Ford.
• Esther — sailing merchantman, Old Ironsides 1926
• Flying Dutchman
  The Flying Dutchman (Pirates of the Caribbean)
  The Flying Dutchman, or simply referred to as the Dutchman, is a powerful ship of the Caribbean seas in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean. The ship made its first appearance in Dead Man's Chest under the command of the fictional captain, Davy Jones...
  
   — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . It was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by...
  
  
• Geronimo — America's Cup racing yacht, Wind
  Wind (film)
  Wind is a film released in 1992. The movie was directed by Carroll Ballard and starred Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, and Cliff Robertson.- Plot summary :...
  
  1992
• Ghost — sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf
  The Sea Wolf (1941 film)
  The Sea Wolf is a 1941 black-and-white film adaptation of Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. The film was written by Robert Rossen and directed by Michael Curtiz....
  
  1941
• Glencairn — freighter — The Long Voyage Home
  The Long Voyage Home
  The Long Voyage Home is an American drama film and directed by John Ford. It features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond, among others....
  
  
• Gloria N — E la nave va..., Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
  
  
• SS Goliath — ocean liner — Goliath Awaits
  Goliath Awaits
  Goliath Awaits is a 1981 American television movie originally broadcast in two parts in November 1981 on various stations as a part of Operation Prime Time's syndicated programming...
  
   — TV film 1981
• Hahnchen Maru — cargo vessel modified to command ship — Contact
  Contact (film)
  Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact....
  
  , 1997
• Hai Peng — Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• SS Happy Wanderer — cruise liner — Carry On Cruising
  Carry On Cruising
  Carry On Cruising is the sixth Carry On film and was released in 1962. It was the first in the Carry On series to be filmed in colour and was based on an original story by Eric Barker. P&O - Orient Lines were thanked in the credits. Regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Kenneth Connor appear in...
  
  
• USS Haynes (DE-181) — destroyer escort, The Enemy Below
  The Enemy Below
  The Enemy Below is a 1957 war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German U-boat during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum, Curt Jürgens, David Hedison and Theodore Bikel. The movie was directed and produced by Dick...
  
  
• The Henrietta - paddle steamer - Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
• Immer Essen ("Always eating") — cruise ship, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward. It is both a parody of, and an homage to, film noir and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s....
  
  
• The Inferno — The Goonies
  The Goonies
  The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenplay was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg. The premise surrounds a band of pre-teens who live in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon hoping to save...
  
  
• HMS Interceptor — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure fantasy film based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
  
• USS Intrepid — cruise ship in the film Intrepid
• JDS Isokaze — Aegis (Bôkoku no îgisu) 2005
• Jenny — Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...
  
  
• USS Kornblatt — Don't Give Up The Ship, 1959, starred Jerry Lewis
• USS Lansing (SSN-795) - Los Angeles Class
  Los Angeles class submarine
  The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 43 submarines on active duty and 19 retired, the Los Angeles class is the most numerous nuclear powered...
  
   SSN (Depicted as an SSBN) in Danger Beneath The Sea
  Danger Beneath the Sea
  Danger Beneath the Sea is a thriller TV movie released in 2001 and starring Casper Van Dien.-Plot:After a North Korean nuclear missile test goes wrong, the American nuclear attack submarine USS Lansing is cut off from communications...
  
  , 2001
• Liparus — Karl Stromberg's submarine swallowing supertanker The Spy Who Loved Me
  The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
  The Spy Who Loved Me is a spy film, the tenth film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...
  
  1977
• SS Lorelei — An ocean liner in Ghost Ship
• HMS Lydia — Captain Horatio Hornblower
  Captain Horatio Hornblower
  Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is a 1951 naval adventure film. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan.It was based upon three of C. S...
  
  1951
• Mary Deare — The Wreck of the Mary Deare
  The Wreck of the Mary Deare
  The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a novel written by British author Hammond Innes and later a movie starring Gary Cooper. It tells the story of the titular ship, which is found adrift at sea by John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, Gideon Patch, still...
  
  , starring Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
  
   and Charlton Heston, 1959
• USS Mako - Fast Attack Submarine in Danger Beneath The Sea
  Danger Beneath the Sea
  Danger Beneath the Sea is a thriller TV movie released in 2001 and starring Casper Van Dien.-Plot:After a North Korean nuclear missile test goes wrong, the American nuclear attack submarine USS Lansing is cut off from communications...
  
  , 2001
• USS Montana — The Abyss
  The Abyss
  The Abyss is a 1989 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. The original musical score was composed by Alan Silvestri...
  
  , The Fifth Missile
  The Fifth Missile
  The Fifth Missile is a 1986 TV movie starring Robert Conrad, Sam Waterston and David Soul about an American ballistic missile submarine, based on the novel The Gold Crew by Frank M. Robinson and Thomas N. Scortia. Her crew goes slowly insane due to exposure to chemicals in paint onboard and...
  
  
• Morning Star —Cutthroat Island
  Cutthroat Island
  Cutthroat Island is a 1995 action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin. The film stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a major box office bomb: listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of...
  
  1995
• Nathan Ross — whaling ship, All the Brothers Were Valiant
  All the Brothers Were Valiant
  All the Brothers Were Valiant is a 1953 adventure drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , based on the 1919 novel All the Brothers Were Valiant by Ben Ames Williams...
  
  1953
• Nautilus
  Nautilus (Verne)
  The Nautilus is the fictional submarine featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island . Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus...
  
   — Captain Nemo
  Captain Nemo
  Captain Nemo, also known as Prince Dakkar, is a fictional character featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island ....
  
  's 1860s submarine — 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 adventure film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil. It was the first science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Productions, as well as the only science-fiction...
  
  1954, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
  Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
  Captain Nemo and the Underwater City is a 1969 British film, featuring the character Captain Nemo and some of the settings of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was written by Pip and Jane Baker and stars Robert Ryan as Nemo....
  
  1969, Mysterious Island, The Return of Captain Nemo
  The Return of Captain Nemo
  The Return of Captain Nemo is a 1978 science fiction TV movie directed by Alex March and Paul Stader. It is loosely based on characters and settings from Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea...
  
  1978, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, publication of which began in 1999. The series spans two six-issue limited series and a graphic novel from the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm/DC, and a third miniseries...
  
  2003
• HMS Nereid - Royal Navy
  Royal Navy
  The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
  
   submarine, Virus
  Fukkatsu no hi
  , literally Day of Resurrection is a 1980 post-apocalyptic science fiction movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a novel written by Sakyo Komatsu. The movie starred Masao Kusakari, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos, Ken Ogata, Glenn Ford and...
  
  , 1980
• USS Oakland (SSN-798) - Los Angeles Class
  Los Angeles class submarine
  The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 43 submarines on active duty and 19 retired, the Los Angeles class is the most numerous nuclear powered...
  
   SSN in Steel Sharks, 1996
• Olive Branch — sailing merchantman, Captain Caution, 1940
• Orca — Quint's fishing boat, Jaws
  Jaws (film)
  Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
  
  , 1975
• Patna — tramp steamer in Lord Jim
  Lord Jim
  Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.An early and primary event is Jim's abandonment of a ship in distress on which he is serving as a mate...
  
  1965
• Pequod — whaleship, Moby Dick 1956, 1978, 1998
• USS Pequod - American submarine, 2010: Moby Dick
  2010: Moby Dick
  Moby Dick is a 2010 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. The film is an Asylum production, and stars Barry Bostwick as Captain Ahab....
  
  , 2010
• Poseidon — ocean liner/cruise ship, The Poseidon Adventure 1972, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
  Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
  Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American disaster film, a sequel to the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure. It was directed by Irwin Allen and starred Michael Caine and Sally Field...
  
  1979, The Poseidon Adventure
  The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)
  The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 action and adventure film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name.-Plot:...
  
  2005, Poseidon
  Poseidon (film)
  Poseidon is a 2006 disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the third film adaptation of the novel The Poseidon Adventure written by Paul Gallico, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss. It was directed by Wolfgang Petersen...
  
  2006
• USS Poseidon — USS Poseidon: Phantom Below 2005
• The Princess — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure fantasy film based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
  
• Q Boat — Q's 'fishing boat' The World Is Not Enough
  The World Is Not Enough
  The World Is Not Enough is the nineteenth spy film in the James Bond film series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Michael Apted, with the original story and screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein. It...
  
  1999
• "Proteus" - nuclear mini submarine from the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage."
• Rachel — Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, was written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851. It is considered by some to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod,...
  
  , 1956, 1998
• Rasputin - Ex-Soviet Submarine in Rapid Assault, 1997
• The Reaper- Dog's ship in Cutthroat Island
  Cutthroat Island
  Cutthroat Island is a 1995 action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin. The film stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a major box office bomb: listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of...
  
  , 1995
• The Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch
  Wake of the Red Witch
  Wake of the Red Witch is a 1948 drama film from Republic Pictures starring John Wayne and Gail Russell, produced by Edmund Grainger, and based upon the novel by Garland Roark...
  
  with John Wayne
  John Wayne
  Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...
  
  , 1948
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) — World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (1955) and the 1984 television film
  Mister Roberts (1984 film)
  Mister Roberts is a 1984 television film re-make of the 1955 film of the same name. The 1955 film was in turn adapted from the novel by Thomas Heggen and adapted by Heggen and Joshua Logan....
  
   (also appears in novel, play and TV series versions)
• U-571 appears in U-571 (film)
  U-571 (film)
  U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry...
  
  , coincidently same number as German submarine U-571
• Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd
  Billy Budd (film)
  Billy Budd is a 1962 film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere...
  
  , 1962
• Rob Roy — commercial freighter, Windbag the Sailor
  Windbag the Sailor
  Windbag the Sailor is a British comedy film directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay in the title role. Ben Cutlet is a sea captain who entertains his bar room audience with tales of his days at sea, even though in reality his maritime experience extends only to navigating a coal barge...
  
  , 1936
• USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles
  The Sand Pebbles (film)
  The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise. It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate aboard the fictional gunboat USS San Pablo in 1920s China....
  
  , 1966
• HMS Saltash Castle — Second World War frigate in The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (film)
  The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British film from Ealing Studios starring Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden, with Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister...
  
  , 1953
• Saracen — yacht, Dead Calm
  Dead Calm (film)
  Dead Calm is a 1989 thriller film starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. It was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams...
  
  
• USS Sarasota - Aircraft Carrier, Crash Dive, 1996 & Rapid Assault, 1997
• USS Sawfish — On the Beach
  On the Beach (1959 film)
  On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic drama film based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name. The film features Gregory Peck , Ava Gardner , Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins...
  
  , 1959
• USS Scotia - submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  30,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 2007 film that is a modern update on the classic book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It stars Lorenzo Lamas as Lt. Aronnaux and Sean Lawlor as the misanthropic Captain Nemo...
  
  , 2007
• Sea Star — tug in Virus
  Virus (1999 film)
  Virus is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland...
  
  , 1999
• HMS Sea Tiger — Second World War submarine, We Dive at Dawn
  We Dive at Dawn
  We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War. It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Frank Launder...
  
  , 1943
• USS Sea Tiger
  USS Sea Tiger
  USS Sea Tiger was a fictional submarine presumably named for the barracuda. No vessel of the United States Navy has been given that name, but the 1959 movie Operation Petticoat, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, and the short-lived 1977-1978 television series of the same name, were set aboard...
  
   — World War II submarine, Operation Petticoat
  Operation Petticoat
  Operation Petticoat is a 1959 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. It was the basis for a television series in 1977 starring John Astin in Grant's role...
  
  1977
• SS Sea Witch — Action in the North Atlantic
  Action in the North Atlantic
  Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 war film directed by Lloyd Bacon, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as sailors in the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II.-Plot:...
  
  1943
• SSNR Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction film, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released by 20th Century Fox in 1961. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane...
  
  1961 with Walter Pidgeon
  Walter Pidgeon
  Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian actor, who starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs...
  
  
• HMS Shag at Sea - yacht, Austin Powers in Goldmember
  Austin Powers in Goldmember
  Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 American spy comedy film and the third installment of the Austin Powers series starring Mike Myers in the title role. The movie was directed by Jay Roach, and co-written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers. Myers also plays the roles of Dr. Evil, Goldmember,...
  
  2002
• HMS Sherwood - British cruiser, Carry on Admiral
  Carry on Admiral
  Carry on Admiral is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and featuring David Tomlinson, Ronald Shiner and Joan Sims. It was not part of the Carry On series, which it predates, though it is similar in tone and style to the earliest films in the series...
  
  1957
• HMS Solent - British destroyer, Sink the Bismarck!
  Sink the Bismarck!
  Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white British war film based on the book, the "Last Nine Days of the Bismarck" by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. To date, it is the only movie made that deals directly with the operations, chase, and...
  
  1960
• IJN Shinaru — Japanese aircraft carrier, Torpedo Run
  Torpedo Run
  Torpedo Run is a 1958 Metrocolor war film starring Glenn Ford as a World War II submarine commander in the Pacific who is obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese aircraft carrier.It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.- Plot :...
  
  1958
• Stealth Ship — media mogul Elliot Carver's secret news creator in Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies
  Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering...
  
  . Is based on the real life Sea Shadow (IX-529)
  Sea Shadow (IX-529)
  Sea Shadow is an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high stability hull configurations which have been used in oceanographic ships....
  
   1997
• St. Georges — British spy ship trawler For Your Eyes Only
  For Your Eyes Only (film)
  For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It marked the directorial debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor and second unit director in three other Bond films. The screenplay by Richard Maibaum...
  
  1981
• USS Starfish
  USS Starfish
  USS Starfish, a fictional submarine named for the various species of class Asteroidea, was the setting for the movie Hellcats of the Navy. She was commanded by Commander Casey Adams, played by Ronald Reagan....
  
   — Hellcats of the Navy
  Hellcats of the Navy
  Hellcats of the Navy is a World War II submarine movie starring Ronald Reagan and his wife, billed as Nancy Davis, her then professional name...
  
  
• USS Stingray
  USS Stingray
  Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Stingray for the stingray, a large ray with a whip-like tail and sharp spines capable of inflicting severe wounds:* The first, Stingray Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Stingray for the stingray, a large ray...
  
   - Balao-class submarine, Down Periscope
  Down Periscope
  Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy film starring Kelsey Grammer as the captain of a rust-bucket Navy submarine, the USS Stingray, who is fighting for his career....
  
  , 1996 with Kelsey Grammer
  Kelsey Grammer
  Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor and comedian. He is most widely known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier...
  
  ; no relation to the Salmon-class SS-186 USS Stingray
• USS Thunderfish — Operation Pacific
  Operation Pacific
  Operation Pacific is a 1951 World War II submarine film starring John Wayne and directed by George Waggner. The technical advisor for this film was Admiral Charles A...
  
  , 1954 with John Wayne
  John Wayne
  Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...
  
  
• USS Tiger Shark
  USS Tiger Shark
  No ship of the United States Navy has ever borne the name USS Tiger Shark or Tigershark, though the name is popular for fictional submarines.*The title "character" of the 1959 sci-fi movie The Atomic Submarine is named Tiger Shark....
  
   — The Atomic Submarine
  The Atomic Submarine
  The Atomic Submarine is a 1959 science fiction film starring Arthur Franz, Dick Foran and Brett Halsey, with John Hillard as the voice of the alien. The film was directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, the script was adapted by Orville H. Hampton from a short story by Jack Rabin and Irving Block...
  
  
• SS Titanic II — cruise liner, Titanic II, 2010
• HMS Torrin — In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information ....
  
  , 1942
• Ulysses — submarine, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn, it is the first science fiction film in the Disney animated features canon and the 41st overall. The film...
  
  
• SSN Ulysses (SSN-???) - Los Angeles Class
  Los Angeles class submarine
  The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 43 submarines on active duty and 19 retired, the Los Angeles class is the most numerous nuclear powered...
  
   in Crash Dive, 1996
• USS Valhalla (SSN-905) - Los Angeles Class
  Los Angeles class submarine
  The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 43 submarines on active duty and 19 retired, the Los Angeles class is the most numerous nuclear powered...
  
   SSN in Rapid Assault, 1997
• SS Venture — King Kong
  King Kong (1933 film)
  King Kong is a Pre-Code 1933 fantasy monster adventure film co-directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, and written by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman after a story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. The film tells of a gigantic island-dwelling apeman creature called Kong who dies in...
  
  , 1933, 2005
• HMS Venus — British frigate — Carry On Jack
  Carry On Jack
  Carry on Jack is the eighth movie in the Carry On film series and was released in 1963. Most of the usual Carry On team are missing from this film: only Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey appear throughout. Bernard Cribbins makes the first of his three appearances in a Carry On...
  
  , 1962
• HMS Victoria — British WWI
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   ironclad, Britannic
  Britannic (film)
  Britannic is a romantic drama film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It stars Edward Atterton and Amanda Ryan as star-crossed lovers on the forgotten sister ship of the , the HMHS Britannic...
  
  , 2000
• The Wanderer - Captain Ron
  Captain Ron
  Captain Ron is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt, produced by David Permut, and written by John Dwyer for Touchstone Pictures. It stars Kurt Russell as the title character, a sailor with a quirky personality and a checkered past, and Martin Short as a middle-class family man...
  
  , 1992 with Martin Short
  Martin Short
  Martin Hayter Short, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, singer and producer. He is best-known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live...
  
   and Kurt Russell
  Kurt Russell
  Kurt Vogel Russell is an American television and film actor. His first acting roles were as a child in television series, including a lead role in the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters...
  
  
• We're Here — Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon...
  
  , 1937 with Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...
  
  
• Wonkatania — Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 musical film adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket as he receives a golden ticket and visits Willy...
  
  (also appears in 2005 adaptation
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka...
  
  ), based on the Cunard Line
  Cunard Line
  Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...
  
   tradition of ending ships with an -ania (i.e., RMS Lusitania
  RMS Lusitania
  RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. The ship entered passenger service with the Cunard Line on 26 August 1907 and continued on the line's heavily-traveled passenger service between Liverpool, England and New...
  
   and RMS Aquitania
  RMS Aquitania
  RMS Aquitania was a Cunard Line ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. She was launched on 21 April 1913 and sailed on her maiden voyage to New York on 30 May 1914...
  
  )
• Yellow Submarine — The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  ' psychedelic submarine

Single works

• USS Abraham Lincoln — frigate in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax...
  
  by Jules Verne
  Jules Verne
  Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
  
  , 1868
• Adventure — Oceangoing Salvage Tug
  Tugboat
  A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal,or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...
  
   — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
• African Queen — The African Queen
  The African Queen (novel)
  The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by C. S. Forester, which was adapted to the 1951 film with the same name.-Plot summary:The story opens in mid-1914. Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old English woman, is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel, an Anglican missionary in Central Africa...
  
  by C. S. Forester
  C. S. Forester
  Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...
  
  
• HMS Amirante — Destroyer — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins
  Geoffrey Jenkins
  -Early life:Jenkins was born Pretoria. At the age of 17 he wrote and had published A Century of History which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the centenary of Potchefstroom....
  
  , 1966
• Antarctica — Whaling
  Whaling
  Whaling is the hunting of whales mainly for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC. Various coastal communities have long histories of sustenance whaling and harvesting beached whales...
  
   Factory Ship
  Factory ship
  A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish...
  
   — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins
  Geoffrey Jenkins
  -Early life:Jenkins was born Pretoria. At the age of 17 he wrote and had published A Century of History which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the centenary of Potchefstroom....
  
  , 1962
• HMS Antigone — Leander class cruiser commissioned 1938 in "The Cruiser" by Warren Tute, 1955
• SNS Antilla- Spanish battleship in Trafalgar by Arturo Perez-Reverte, 2004
• Antonov — Soviet bulk freighter
  Bulk carrier
  A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, economic forces have fueled the development of these ships,...
  
   — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Arabella — Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini, 1924
• HMS Aries — Leander Class
  Leander class frigate
  The Leander class, or Type 12I frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973...
  
   frigate — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Argo
  Argo
  In Greek mythology, the Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to retrieve the Golden Fleece. It was named after its builder, Argus.-Legend:...
  
   — Jason
  Jason
  Jason was a late ancient Greek mythological hero from the late 10th Century BC, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus...
  
   and the Argonauts
  Argonauts
  The Argonauts ) were a band of heroes in Greek mythology who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, the Argo, which was named after its builder, Argus. "Argonauts", therefore, literally means...
  
  
• Artemis — Voyager
  Voyager (novel)
  Voyager, book three in the best-selling Outlander series, was written by Diana Gabaldon.The storyline centers on a time-travelling 20th-century doctor and her 18th-century Scottish husband , and is set in Scotland, France, and America.The heroine of the bestselling Outlander, Claire, returns in...
  
  by Diana Gabaldon
  Diana Gabaldon
  Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author of Mexican-American and English ancestry. Gabaldon is the author of the Outlander Series. Her books they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, and science fiction.-Early life and science career:Diana J. Gabaldon was...
  
  
• HMS Artemis — The Ship
  The Ship (novel)
  The Ship is a novel written by British author C. S. Forester set in the Mediterranean during World War II, and first published in May 1943. It follows the life of a Royal Navy light cruiser for a single action, including a detailed analysis of many of the men on board and the contribution they...
  
  , by C. S. Forester
  C. S. Forester
  Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...
  
  , 1943
• Astrea — Roman galley ship — Ben-Hur by Genl Lew Wallace
  Lew Wallace
  Lewis "Lew" Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician and author...
  
  , 1880
• Aurora — Armed whale catcher
  Whaler
  A whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
  
   — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
• Auxoil — Oil-rig tender — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• USS Avenger - Trident Class SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   - Inoculate! by Neil Bayne, 1979
• Baalbek — Libyan Freighter — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• Bachir — Libyan Auxiliary Cruiser
  Merchant raider
  Merchant raiders are ships which disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels, whilst actually being armed and intending to attack enemy commerce. Germany used several merchant raiders early in World War I, and again early in World War II...
  
   — The Unripe Gold, by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1983
• USS Belinda (APA-22) — Away All Boats by Kenneth M. Dodson, 1954 (also appears in film version
  Away All Boats
  Away All Boats is a 1956 American war film produced by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Joseph Pevney and produced by Howard Christie from a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman based on the 1953 novel by Kenneth M. Dodson....
  
  )
• Bellatrix — Motor yacht — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• HMS Bellipotent — Billy Budd
  Billy Budd
  Billy Budd is a short novel by Herman Melville.Billy Budd can also refer to:*Billy Budd , a 1962 film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov, based on Melville's novel...
  
  by Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
  
  
• Beryte — Libyan Auxiliary Cruiser
  Merchant raider
  Merchant raiders are ships which disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels, whilst actually being armed and intending to attack enemy commerce. Germany used several merchant raiders early in World War I, and again early in World War II...
  
   — The Unripe Gold, by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1983
• Bird of Dawning — Bird of Dawning novel by John Masefield
  John Masefield
  John Edward Masefield, OM, was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967...
  
  
• USS Bradford — Frigate — The Krone Experiment by J. Craig Wheeler, 1986
• Black Swan - Pirate ship - "The Black Swan" by Rafael Sabatini, 1932 (prototype for Pirates of the Caribbean films)
• Byblos — Freighter — The Soukour Deadline by Anthony Trew, 1976
• USS Caine — The Caine Mutiny
  The Caine Mutiny
  The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships...
  
  (also appears in film version)
• HMS Calypso
  HMS Calypso
  The following ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name of HMS Calypso, after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology:*HMS Calypso , a 16-gun sloop of 342 tons burthen bm, launched at Graves, Deptford 27 September 1783...
  
   — frigate — The Captain from Connecticut
  The Captain from Connecticut
  The Captain from Connecticut is a novel by CS Forester, the author of the novels about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. The Captain from Connecticut is set at the tail end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. It was written during World War II...
  
  by C. S. Forester
  C. S. Forester
  Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...
  
  
• USS Candlefish (SS-284) — Ghostboat by George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger, 1976. World War II Gato Class submarine
• USS Carl Jackson — Nimitz Class
  Nimitz class aircraft carrier
  The Nimitz-class supercarriers are a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy. With an overall length of and full-load displacements of over 100,000 long tons, they are the largest capital ships in the world...
  
   aircraft carrier — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• Caspar's Folly — Ocean racing trimaran
  Trimaran
  A trimaran is a multihulled boat consisting of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls , attached to the main hull with lateral struts...
  
   — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• Chimay — Whale Cacher
  Whaler
  A whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
  
   — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
• SS Claridon — The Last Voyage
  The Last Voyage
  The Last Voyage is a 1960 American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone.The screenplay centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room...
  
  
• HMS Compass Rose — The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (book)
  The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II....
  
  by Nicholas Monsarrat
  Nicholas Monsarrat
  Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat RNVR was a British novelist known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes , but perhaps best known internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.- Early life :Born...
  
  , 1951
• Covenant — brig, Kidnapped
  Kidnapped (novel)
  Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis...
  
  by Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
  
  , 1886
• Crozet — Whale Catcher
  Whaler
  A whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
  
   — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
• HMS Cyclades — Leander Class
  Leander class frigate
  The Leander class, or Type 12I frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973...
  
   frigate — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Dawn Treader - Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
• USS Delaware
  USS Delaware
  USS Delaware may refer to:, was a 24-gun frigate built in 1776 and captured by the British in 1777, was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1798, was a 74-gun ship of the line, launched in 1820 and burned in 1861...
  
   — frigate — The Captain from Connecticut
  The Captain from Connecticut
  The Captain from Connecticut is a novel by CS Forester, the author of the novels about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. The Captain from Connecticut is set at the tail end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. It was written during World War II...
  
  by C. S. Forester
  C. S. Forester
  Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...
  
  
• Demeter — Russian schooner in Dracula
  Dracula
  Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
  
  by Bram Stoker
  Bram Stoker
  Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula...
  
  
• HMS Deterrent — Polaris
  UGM-27 Polaris
  The Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy....
  
   missile-carrying SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
  - Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
• HMS Devastation — UK Submarine — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins
  Geoffrey Jenkins
  -Early life:Jenkins was born Pretoria. At the age of 17 he wrote and had published A Century of History which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the centenary of Potchefstroom....
  
  , 1966
• USS Dolphin — Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
  Alistair MacLean
  Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare, all three having been made into successful films...
  
  , 1963
• Doneska - Russian Submarine - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• Dostoiny — Krivak class destroyer — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Dulcibella — The Riddle of the Sands
  The Riddle of the Sands
  The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is an early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism...
  
  by Erskine Childers
  Robert Erskine Childers
  Robert Erskine Childers DSC , universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novel Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish...
  
  , 1903
• Duncan — ocean yacht, In Search of the Castaways
  In Search of the Castaways
  In Search of the Castaways is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–1868. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Édouard Riou. In 1876 it was republished by George Routledge & Sons as a three volume set titled "A Voyage Round The World"...
  
  by Jules Verne
  Jules Verne
  Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
  
  , 1867
• HMS Eagle — Invincible Class
  Invincible class aircraft carrier
  The Invincible class is a class of light aircraft carrier operated by the British Royal Navy. Three ships were constructed, , and . The vessels were built as aviation-capable anti-submarine warfare platforms to counter the Cold War North Atlantic Soviet submarine threat, and initially embarked...
  
   aircraft carrier — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• Erebus
  Erebus
  In Greek mythology, Erebus , also Erebos , was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony places him as the first five beings to come into existence from Chaos...
  
   — Alaska
  Alaska (novel)
  Alaska is a historical novel by James A. Michener. Like other Michener titles, Alaska spans a considerable amount of time.-Plot introduction:...
  
  
• Esmeralda - Racing Yawl
  Yawl
  A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mast located well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom, specifically aft of the rudder post. A yawl (from Dutch Jol) is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an...
  
   - Her Name Will Be Faith by Max Marlow, 1988
• ESO - Experimental nuclear powered stealth minisub - The Tiger Cruise by Richard Thompson, 1999
• Evening Star — Alaska
• Explorer 1 - Bathyscape - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• Falkland — Whale Catcher
  Whaler
  A whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
  
   — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
• Fin of God — Omnian ship, Small Gods
  Small Gods
  Small Gods is the thirteenth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, published in 1992. It tells the origin of the god Om, and his relations with his prophet, the reformer Brutha...
  
  
• The Fuwalda — Tarzan of the Apes
  Tarzan of the Apes
  Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October, 1912; the first book edition was published in 1914. The character was so popular that Burroughs...
  
  by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
  
  , 1914. The ship which took Tarzan's parents to Africa.
• USS Galveston - Aircraft Carrier - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• USS Garcia — Eyes of the Hammer by Bob Mayer
  Bob Mayer
  Robert "Bob" Mayer is an author, writing instructor, and former Green Beret. He has written over 30 titles under his name and his four pen names . Mayer has applied the principles from his training in the special forces to his career as a writer and as a writing instructor...
  
  , 1991
• Ghost — sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf by Jack London
  Jack London
  John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
  
  , 1904
• The Gloria Scott — from the earliest Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
  
   story, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  Arthur Conan Doyle
  Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
  
  
• Grande Rapide — Ocean racing catamaran
  Catamaran
  A catamaran is a type of multihulled boat or ship consisting of two hulls, or vakas, joined by some structure, the most basic being a frame, formed of akas...
  
   — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• Gratulana — Liberian
  Flag of convenience
  The term flag of convenience describes the business practice of registering a merchant ship in a sovereign state different from that of the ship's owners, and flying that state's civil ensign on the ship. Ships are registered under flags of convenience to reduce operating costs or avoid the...
  
   oil tanker — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• Grenouille Frenetique (Frantic Frog) — pirate ship — The Pyrates
  The Pyrates
  The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero , multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood...
  
  by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• The Hesperus — from the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus
  The Wreck of the Hesperus
  "The Wreck of the Hesperus" is a dramatic poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in Ballads and Other Poems in 1842.-Overview:...
  
  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
  
  
• HISPANIOLA (capitalized throughout the story) — Treasure Island
  Treasure Island
  Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...
  
  by Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
  
  
• Huntress — British survey ship — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Ilya Podogin - Soviet SSN - Icebound by Dean Koontz
  Dean Koontz
  Dean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with...
  
  , 1995
• USS Imperator - Submarine Amphibious Assault Ship - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
• Incroyable — Opium
  Opium
  Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy . Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine...
  
   smuggling Clipper
  Clipper
  A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area...
  
   — The Watering Place of Good Peace by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1960
• USS Independence, a fictional Wasp class amphibious assault ship
  Wasp class amphibious assault ship
  The Wasp class is a class of Landing Helicopter Dock amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy. Based on the Tarawa class, with modifications to operate more advanced aircraft and landing craft, the Wasp class is capable of transporting almost the full strength of a United States...
  
   where a large part of the plot from The Swarm
  The Swarm (novel)
  The Swarm is a science fiction novel by German author Frank Schätzing. It was first published in Germany and Austria in 2004 and soon became a bestseller.-Plot:...
  
   by Frank Schätzing
  Frank Schätzing
  ' , is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm .- Life :Schätzing was born in Cologne and studied communication studies; he later ran his own company, an advertising agency named INTEVI, in Cologne. Schätzing became a writer in 1990, and penned several...
  
   takes place.
• HMS Indomitable — Billy Budd
  Billy Budd
  Billy Budd is a short novel by Herman Melville.Billy Budd can also refer to:*Billy Budd , a 1962 film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov, based on Melville's novel...
  
  by Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
  
  
• Jeroboam — Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, was written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851. It is considered by some to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod,...
  
  or The Whale by Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
  
  
• Jolly Roger — Captain Hook's
  Captain Hook
  Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations. The character is a villainous pirate captain of the Jolly Roger brig, and lord of the pirate village/harbour in Neverland, where he is widely feared. Most...
  
   pirate ship — Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• John Henry D — Fishing boat — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Joun — Fishing boat — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• HMS Jupiter — Leander Class
  Leander class frigate
  The Leander class, or Type 12I frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973...
  
   frigate — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• K-387 - Russian nuclear submarine - The Tiger Cruise by Richard Thompson, 1999
• Karamagee — Ocean racing trimaran — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• USS Keeling — The Good Shepherd
  The Good Shepherd (nautical fiction)
  The Good Shepherd is a nautical and war novel by C.S. Forester, best known as the creator of fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower.-Plot summary:...
  
  by CS Forester
• Kerguelen — Whale Catcher
  Whaler
  A whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
  
   — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
• Kharkov - Moscow Class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• HMS Kittiwake — Bird class patrol boat — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Korund — Tango Class
  Tango class submarine
  The Russian Tango class submarines were the successors to the Foxtrot class submarine based in the Black Sea and Northern Fleet areas. The first of the class was completed in 1972 at Gorky. A total of 18 were built in two slightly different versions...
  
   submarine — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• USS Langley — a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier
  Forrestal class aircraft carrier
  The Forrestal-class aircraft carriers were a four-ship class designed and built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. It was the first class of so-called supercarriers, combining high tonnage, deck-edge elevators and an angled deck...
  
   — The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman
  Barrett Tillman
  Barrett Tillman is an American author who specializes in naval and aviation topics in addition to fiction and technical writing.Tillman's most influential book to date is On Yankee Station , written with the late John B. Nichols...
  
  
• Laughing Sandbag — pirate ship — The Pyrates
  The Pyrates
  The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero , multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood...
  
  by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Leif Ericson — The Illuminatus! Trilogy
  The Illuminatus! Trilogy
  The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magick-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both...
  
  by Robert Shea
  Robert Shea
  Robert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In...
  
   and Robert Anton Wilson
  Robert Anton Wilson
  Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...
  
  , 1975
• Leros — Greek Freighter — The Soukour Deadline by Anthony Trew, 1976
• Leopard - Akula class submarine
  Akula class submarine
  Project 971 Щука-Б , is a nuclear-powered attack submarine first deployed by the Soviet Navy in 1986...
  
   - The Tiger Cruise by Richard Thompson, 1999
• USS Liberty - Trident Class SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   - Inoculate! by Neil Bayne, 1979
• Lobitos — Panamanian
  Flag of convenience
  The term flag of convenience describes the business practice of registering a merchant ship in a sovereign state different from that of the ship's owners, and flying that state's civil ensign on the ship. Ships are registered under flags of convenience to reduce operating costs or avoid the...
  
   freighter — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• HMS Loch Torridon — Cruiser — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• HMS Loch Vennachar — Cruiser — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• The Magic Oat Boat — The Magic Oat Boat, (a Children's Story
  Children's Story
  "Children's Story" is a single by British-born American hip hop artist Slick Rick, from his album The Great Adventures of Slick Rick.-Reception:It's on the list of the top 100 rap songs, and is ranked #61 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop....
  
  ), 1992
• HMAS Magpie — Mine-sweeper
  Minesweeper (ship)
  A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...
  
   — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
• Malange - Freighter - - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Edward Reeman, born at Thames Ditton, is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
  
  , 1967
• Marie Celeste — The Relation of J Habakuk Jephson by Arthur Conan Doyle
  Arthur Conan Doyle
  Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
  
   (the real ship was Mary Celeste
  Mary Celeste
  The Mary Celeste was an American brigantine merchant ship famous for having been discovered on 4 December 1872, in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned , despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able...
  
  )
• Mary Deare — The Wreck of the Mary Deare
  The Wreck of the Mary Deare
  The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a novel written by British author Hammond Innes and later a movie starring Gary Cooper. It tells the story of the titular ship, which is found adrift at sea by John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, Gideon Patch, still...
  
  by Hammond Innes
  Hammond Innes
  Ralph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books....
  
  , 1956
• USS Mary Jane - Naval Oceanographic Research Ship
  Research vessel
  A research vessel is a ship designed and equipped to carry out research at sea. Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel, others require a dedicated vessel...
  
   - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• HMS Massive — Polaris missile
  UGM-27 Polaris
  The Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy....
  
  -carrying SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   — Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
• Medina — Motor cruiser — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• Mercedes Express Ocean racing trimaran — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• Milka — Jingo
  Jingo (novel)
  Jingo is the 21st novel by Terry Pratchett, one of his Discworld series. It was published in 1997. The rising of a previously submerged island and the subconstituent sovereignty dispute were inspired by the real-life island of Ferdinandea.-Plot:...
  
  (name parodies the Pinta)
• HMS Missile - Polaris missile
  UGM-27 Polaris
  The Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy....
  
  -carrying SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   — Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
• Moonraker — Liberian
  Flag of convenience
  The term flag of convenience describes the business practice of registering a merchant ship in a sovereign state different from that of the ship's owners, and flying that state's civil ensign on the ship. Ships are registered under flags of convenience to reduce operating costs or avoid the...
  
   tramp freighter — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
• Myfanwy — Coaster — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
• Nancy Bell - The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by W. S. Gilbert
  W. S. Gilbert
  Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
  
  
• USS Narwhal — SSN — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• USS Nashville — U.S. warship — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• USS Nathan James (DDG-80) — The Last Ship
  The Last Ship
  The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by William Brinkley.-Background:The Last Ship tells the wordy story of a fictional United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the USS Nathan James , on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the...
  
  by William C. Brinkley, 1988
• Nautilus
  Nautilus (Verne)
  The Nautilus is the fictional submarine featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island . Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus...
  
   — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax...
  
  and The Mysterious Island
  The Mysterious Island
  The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is...
  
  
• Nellie — Heart of Darkness
  Heart of Darkness
  Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon.The story centres on Charles...
  
  by Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...
  
  , 1899
• HMS Nemesis — Tai-Pan
  Tai-Pan
  The term tai-pan was originally used to describe a foreign businessman in China or Hong Kong in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Cantonese colloquialism is now used in a more general sense for business executives of any origin...
  
  by James Clavell
  James Clavell
  James Clavell, born Charles Edmund DuMaresq Clavell was an Australian-born, British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war...
  
  , 1966
• Novgorod - Alfa class submarine
  Alfa class submarine
  The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...
  
   - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
• Numestra del Oro - Armed Merchantman
  Merchant raider
  Merchant raiders are ships which disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels, whilst actually being armed and intending to attack enemy commerce. Germany used several merchant raiders early in World War I, and again early in World War II...
  
   owned by a Colombian Cartel - Hammerheads by Dale Brown
  Dale Brown
  Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
  
  , 1990
• Olympus — Supertanker — Collision by Anthony Wall, 1986
• Omega 1 - Submersible Barge - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• Omega Challenger — Ocean racing sloop — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• HMS Orcus - Oberon class submarine
  Oberon class submarine
  The Oberon class was a 27-boat class of British-built diesel-electric submarines based on the successful British Porpoise-class submarine....
  
   - Submarine by John Wingate, 1982
• Orel - Akula class submarine
  Akula class submarine
  Project 971 Щука-Б , is a nuclear-powered attack submarine first deployed by the Soviet Navy in 1986...
  
   - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
• Oska Laertes — Danish ferry — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Pacific Klondike - Deep ocean drillship - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
• Penguin — The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
  The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
  The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus...
  
  by Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
  
• Pequod — Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, was written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851. It is considered by some to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod,...
  
  ,or The Whale, by Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
  
  , 1851
• USS Pequod — Firefox by Craig Thomas, 1977. Sturgeon-class SSN
  Sturgeon class submarine
  The Sturgeon class were a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the United States Navy from the 1960s until 2004. They were the "work horses" of the submarine attack fleet throughout much of the Cold War...
  
   which rendezvoused on the Arctic ice to re-fuel the Mig-31 Firefox
• HMS Phoenix - SSN - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Edward Reeman, born at Thames Ditton, is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
  
  , 1967
• HMS Plover — Bird class patrol boat — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Plymouth Corporation's Revenge — pirate ship — The Pyrates
  The Pyrates
  The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero , multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood...
  
  by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• HMS Plymouth Sound — sailing Corvette
  Corvette
  A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...
  
   — The Watering Place of Good Peace by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1960
• Poltava - Alfa class submarine
  Alfa class submarine
  The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...
  
   - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
• Poppy — Opium
  Opium
  Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy . Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine...
  
   smuggling schooner
  Schooner
  A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
  
   — The Watering Place of Good Peace by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1960
• SS Poseidon — ocean liner, The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico, 1969
• Pushkin — The Last Ship
  The Last Ship
  The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by William Brinkley.-Background:The Last Ship tells the wordy story of a fictional United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the USS Nathan James , on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the...
  
  by William Brinkley
• USS Pyramus — Polaris missile
  UGM-27 Polaris
  The Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy....
  
  -carrying SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Edward Reeman, born at Thames Ditton, is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
  
  , 1967
• Queequeg — The Grim Grotto
  The Grim Grotto
  The Grim Grotto is the eleventh novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot:The book begins where The Slippery Slope left off, with the Baudelaires traveling on a collapsing toboggan down the Stricken Stream of the Mortmain Mountains, leaving Quigley Quagmire...
  
  by Lemony Snicket
  Lemony Snicket
  Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler . Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional...
  
  , 2004
• Rachel — Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, was written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851. It is considered by some to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod,...
  
  , or The Whale, in search of the Pequod
• USS Raleigh — Eyes of the Hammer by Bob Mayer
  Bob Mayer
  Robert "Bob" Mayer is an author, writing instructor, and former Green Beret. He has written over 30 titles under his name and his four pen names . Mayer has applied the principles from his training in the special forces to his career as a writer and as a writing instructor...
  
  , 1991
• Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch
  Wake of the Red Witch
  Wake of the Red Witch is a 1948 drama film from Republic Pictures starring John Wayne and Gail Russell, produced by Edmund Grainger, and based upon the novel by Garland Roark...
  
  by Garland Roark
  Garland Roark
  Garland Roark was an American author best known for his nautical/adventure fiction. Published in 1946, his first novel Wake of the Red Witch was a Literary Guild selection and later adapted by Republic Pictures as a movie starring John Wayne.- Life :In his own words:"I was born in Groesbeck, Texas...
  
  
• Red October — Soviet submarine, The Hunt for Red October
  The Hunt for Red October
  The Hunt for Red October is a 1984 novel by Tom Clancy. The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst Jack Ryan.The novel was originally published by the U.S...
  
  by Tom Clancy
  Tom Clancy
  Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...
  
  , 1984
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) — World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (also appears in play, film and TV series versions)
• HMS Retaliate — Polaris missile
  UGM-27 Polaris
  The Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy....
  
  -carrying SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   — Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
• USS Retribution - Trident Class SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   - Inoculate! by Neil Bayne, 1979
• Retivy — Krivak class destroyer — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
• Rigel Star — Oil tanker
  Oil tanker
  An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a merchant ship designed for the bulk transport of oil. There are two basic types of oil tankers: the crude tanker and the product tanker. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries...
  
   — The Unripe Gold, by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1983
• Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd
  Billy Budd
  Billy Budd is a short novel by Herman Melville.Billy Budd can also refer to:*Billy Budd , a 1962 film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov, based on Melville's novel...
  
  by Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
  
  
• USN Rio Grande — Aircraft Carrier — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• USS Robert F. Kennedy — A stealth
  Stealth technology
  Stealth technology also termed LO technology is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, and missiles, to make them less visible to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection...
  
   nuclear powered battle cruiser (BCGN) — North Cape by Joe Poyer
  Joe Poyer
  Joseph John Poyer is a thriller novelist from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s who has shifted his attention to military-related, non-fiction books under his own publishing company, North Cape Publications.- Novels :Operation Malacca...
  
  
• Rocketing Spitfire — sloop — The Pyrates
  The Pyrates
  The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero , multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood...
  
  by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• USS Rosemont - Los Angeles Class
  Los Angeles class submarine
  The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 43 submarines on active duty and 19 retired, the Los Angeles class is the most numerous nuclear powered...
  
   - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• Ryazan - Alfa class submarine
  Alfa class submarine
  The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...
  
   - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
• HMS Sabre — S-Class
  British S class submarine (1931)
  The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea replacing the British H class submarines...
  
   submarine — Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
• HMS Safari - Swiftsure Class
  Swiftsure class submarine
  The Swiftsure class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the early 1970s until 2010....
  
   - Submarine by John Wingate, 1982
• HMS Saltash — The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (book)
  The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II....
  
  (HMS Saltash Castle in the film)
• USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles
  The Sand Pebbles
  The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat in 1926. It was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post for the three issues from November 17, 1962 through December 1, 1962. The author completed it in May, 1962, just in time to enter it in the 1963...
  
  by Richard McKenna
  Richard McKenna
  Richard Milton McKenna was an American sailor and writer.-Early life:McKenna was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, on May 9, 1913. Seeking more opportunities than could be found in such a rural part of the country at the height of the Great Depression, McKenna joined the U.S...
  
  
• Santa Cascara (later HMS Golden Vanity) — Spanish galleon captured by the British — The Pyrates
  The Pyrates
  The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero , multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood...
  
  by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Santa Umbriago — Spanish warship — The Pyrates
  The Pyrates
  The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero , multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood...
  
  by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Saracen — Supertanker fitted with reinforced bow. — Collision by Anthony Wall, 1986
• Saratov - Alfa class submarine
  Alfa class submarine
  The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...
  
   - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
• HMS Saturn - Swiftsure Class
  Swiftsure class submarine
  The Swiftsure class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the early 1970s until 2010....
  
   - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• Scorpion — Cruising yacht
  Cabin cruiser
  A cabin cruiser is a type of power boat that provides accommodation for its crew and passengers inside the structure of the craft.A cabin cruiser usually ranges in size from in length, with larger pleasure craft usually considered yachts. Many cabin cruisers can be recovered and towed with a...
  
   — Collision by Anthony Wall, 1986
• USS Scorpion — On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  Nevil Shute
  Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...
  
  , 1957
• USS Seamount — SSBN — The Krone Experiment by J. Craig Wheeler, 1986
• The Sea Witch — a yacht in The Wreck of the Mary Deare
  The Wreck of the Mary Deare
  The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a novel written by British author Hammond Innes and later a movie starring Gary Cooper. It tells the story of the titular ship, which is found adrift at sea by John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, Gideon Patch, still...
  
  by Hammond Innes
  Hammond Innes
  Ralph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books....
  
  , 1956
• USOS Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction film, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released by 20th Century Fox in 1961. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane...
  
  by Theodore Sturgeon
  Theodore Sturgeon
  Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction author.His most famous novel is More Than Human .-Biography:...
  
  , 1961
• Semittanté — Tramp Freighter — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• Shelif — Fishing boat — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• USS Shenandoah — Aircraft carrier — The Hero Ship by Hank Searls
  Hank Searls
  Hank Searls is an American author and screenwriter. His novels included The Crowded Sky , which was adapted as a film with Dana Andrews and Rhonda Fleming, The Penetrators , and The Pilgrim Project , which was adapted as the 1968 film Countdown...
  
  , 1969
• USN Shenandoah — US Submarine — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• Shodo — Japanese Whaling
  Whaling
  Whaling is the hunting of whales mainly for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC. Various coastal communities have long histories of sustenance whaling and harvesting beached whales...
  
   Factory Ship
  Factory ship
  A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish...
  
   — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
• Shodo 4 — Japanese whale catcher
  Whaler
  A whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
  
   — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
• Siren - yacht, A Damsel in Distress
  A Damsel in Distress (novel)
  A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 4 October 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 17 October 1919...
  
  by P. G. Wodehouse
  P. G. Wodehouse
  Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
  
  , 1919
• USS Skippack — SSN — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• Smolensk - Alfa class submarine
  Alfa class submarine
  The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...
  
   - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
• Southern Sun — Freighter — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
• USN Springfield — Aircraft carrier — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• Splendor Hyaline — The Horse and his boy
  The Horse and His Boy
  The Horse and His Boy is a novel by C. S. Lewis. It was published in 1954, making it the fifth of seven books published in Lewis' series The Chronicles of Narnia. The books in this series are sometimes ordered chronologically in relation to the events in the books as opposed to the dates of their...
  
   by C. S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
  
  
• USS Starbuck (SSN-989) — Pacific Vortex!
  Pacific Vortex!
  Pacific Vortex! is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the sixth book released featuring the author's primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt, though the author states that this was the first story that he wrote featuring the popular action hero. It was published after much internal debate, and a...
  
  by Clive Cussler
  Clive Cussler
  Clive Eric Cussler is an American adventure novelist and marine archaeologist. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than seventeen times...
  
  , 1983 (Cover of Sphere edition shows SSN-107
  USS S-3 (SS-107)
  USS S-3 was the prototype of the "Government-type" S-class submarines of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 29 August 1917 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 21 December 1918 sponsored by Mrs. William L. Hill, and commissioned on 30 January 1919 with Commander John W...
  
   on the fin)
• USS Stevens — Oliver Hazard Perry Class
  Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
  The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a class of frigates named after the American Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the naval Battle of Lake Erie...
  
   frigate — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
• USS Stinson — Spruance class destroyer
  Spruance class destroyer
  The Spruance-class destroyer was developed by the United States to replace a large number of World War II-built Allen M. Sumner- and Gearing-class destroyers, and was the primary destroyer built for the U.S. Navy during the 1970s....
  
   — The Krone Experiment by J. Craig Wheeler, 1986
• USS Stormy Beach - Long Beach Class cruiser
  USS Long Beach (CGN-9)
  USS Long Beach was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She was the only ship of her class....
  
   - Fireplay by William Wingate
• Student Prince — Freighter — The Soukour Deadline by Anthony Trew, 1976
• Samurai Maru — Japanese Seagoing Tugboat
  Tugboat
  A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal,or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...
  
   — The Unripe Gold, by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1983
• Sunboro Beauty — Ocean racing yacht — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• Sweet Ribena — Multihulled ocean racing yacht — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• USS Swordfish — On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  Nevil Shute
  Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...
  
  , 1957
• USS Swordfish - Trident Class SSBN
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   - Inoculate! by Neil Bayne, 1979
• Tambov - Russian nuclear submarine - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor
• HMS Teaser — Aircraft Carrier- Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• HMS Temeraire (S.191) - SSN - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Edward Reeman, born at Thames Ditton, is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
  
  , 1967
• Thorshammer — Norwegian
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
   Destroyer
  Whitby class frigate
  The Type 12 frigates of the Whitby class were a six-ship class of anti-submarine warfare frigates of the Royal Navy that entered service late in the 1950s. They were designed as first rate ocean-going convoy escorts in light of experience gained during World War II...
  
   — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins
• USS Thomas Jefferson
  USS Thomas Jefferson
  USS Thomas Jefferson may refer to: was an attack transport in service from 1941 to 1949, and scrapped in 1974 was an Ethan Allen-class ballistic missile submarine commissioned in 1963. She remained on active service until 1985.See also...
  
   — Nimitz Class
  Nimitz Class (novel)
  Nimitz Class is a naval thriller published in 1997 by Patrick Robinson. It is the first book in the series which features admiral Arnold Morgan and Ben Adnam. It is stylistic similar to Tom Clancy, particularly The Hunt for Red October.-Plot summary:...
  
  by Patrick Robinson
• HMS Thunder Child
  HMS Thunder Child
  HMS Thunder Child is the name of the fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy that is destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds...
  
   — The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
  
  
• SS Titan — Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan
  Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan
  Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg...
  
  by Morgan Robertson
  Morgan Robertson
  Morgan Andrew Robertson was a well-known American author of short stories and novels, and the self-claimed inventor of the periscope.He is best known for his short novel Futility, first published in 1898...
  
  , 1898
• Tornado Four — Ocean racing sloop — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• Trident — Survey Ship — Collision by Anthony Wall, 1986
• Twelve Apostles — passenger ship — The Pyrates
  The Pyrates
  The Pyrates is a comedic novel by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1983. Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero , multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood...
  
  by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• HMS Ulysses — HMS Ulysses
  HMS Ulysses (novel)
  HMS Ulysses was the first novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, and ultimately, one of his most popular. Originally published in 1955, it was also released by Fontana Books in 1960...
  
  
• USS Urchin — Air Force One by Edwin Corley
  Edwin Corley
  Edwin Raymond Corley was a United States novelist most famous for his thrillers Sargasso and Air Force One. He used the pseudonyms "David Harper", "William Judson" and worked with novelist Jack Murphy, using the pseudonym "Patrick Buchanan" .As "Patrick Buchanan", Corley and Murphy wrote a series of...
  
  , 1978
• SS Valparaiso — Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow
  James Morrow
  James Morrow is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism....
  
  
• USS Vindicator (NMSS-3) — Nuclear-powered strategic missile battleship, Fire Lance by David Mace, 1986
• Vingilot — The Silmarillion
  The Silmarillion
  The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R...
  
  by J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
  
• USS Viperfish — Spy Sub
• Vitebsk - Victor class
  Victor class submarine
  The Victor class is the NATO reporting name for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. In the USSR, they were produced as Project 671. Victor-class subs featured a teardrop shape, which allowed them to travel at high speed...
  
   - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• Vladimir - Victor class
  Victor class submarine
  The Victor class is the NATO reporting name for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. In the USSR, they were produced as Project 671. Victor-class subs featured a teardrop shape, which allowed them to travel at high speed...
  
   - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• Vologda - Victor class
  Victor class submarine
  The Victor class is the NATO reporting name for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. In the USSR, they were produced as Project 671. Victor-class subs featured a teardrop shape, which allowed them to travel at high speed...
  
   - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• Voronetz - Victor class
  Victor class submarine
  The Victor class is the NATO reporting name for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. In the USSR, they were produced as Project 671. Victor-class subs featured a teardrop shape, which allowed them to travel at high speed...
  
   - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
• The Walrus — Flint's pirate ship in Treasure Island
  Treasure Island
  Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...
  
  by Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
  
  
• USS Warren Harding — in Robert Clark Young
  Robert Clark Young
  Robert Clark Young is an American author of novels, essays, short stories and journalism. Recurring themes in Young's fiction include the relation between alcoholism, the abuse of power, and institutional dysfunction in American life, while his nonfiction has recently focused on eldercare topics...
  
  's naval satire One of the Guys
  One of the Guys
  One of the Guys is an earnestly satirical and picaresque novel by Robert Clark Young, published in 1999, concerning the fantastical adventures of a man posing as a chaplain on a U.S...
  
  
• We're Here — Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon...
  
  : A Story of the Grand Banks, by Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
  
  , 1896
• USN Willowtrack — US Submarine — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
• Wilson's Savoury — Ocean racing yacht — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
• USS Woodbridge (SSN-349
  USS Diodon (SS-349)
  USS Diodon , a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Diodon, a genus of the porcupine fishes....
  
  ) - Los Angeles Class
  Los Angeles class submarine
  The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA class or the 688 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that forms the backbone of the United States submarine fleet. With 43 submarines on active duty and 19 retired, the Los Angeles class is the most numerous nuclear powered...
  
   - The Tiger Cruise by Richard Thompson, 1999
• Yabba-Dabba-Doo — Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
  Matt Ruff
  Matthew Theron Ruff is an American author of thriller, science-fiction and comic novels.-Background and education:...
  
  , 1997

• Amanda Lee Garrett series by James Cobb
  • USS Benton — PGAC (Patrol Gunboat-Air Cushion) test-bed
  • USS Carondelet — PGAC-03 (Patrol Gunboat-Air Cushion)
  • USS Manassas — PGAC-02 (Patrol Gunboat-Air Cushion)
  • USS Queen of the West — PGAC-01 (Patrol Gunboat-Air Cushion)
  • USS Cunningham — CLA-79 (Cruiser Littoral Attack)
  • USS Evans F. Carlson — LPD-26 (Landing Platform Dock)
  • Floater 1 — Mobile Offshore Base (consisting of nine superbarges)
• Aubrey–Maturin series
  Aubrey–Maturin series
  The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a physician,...
  
   by Patrick O'Brian
  Patrick O'Brian
  Patrick O'Brian, CBE , born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen...
  
  
  • HM Sloop Sophie
  • HM Sloop Polychrest
  • HMS Lively
    HMS Lively
    Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lively. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched: was a 30-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1689. She was re-captured by the French later that year. was a 12-gun sixth rate purchased in 1709 and sold in 1712. was a 20-gun...
    
    
  • HMS Surprise
  • Nutmeg of Consolation
  • HMS Worcester
  • HEICS Niobe
  • Privateer Franklin
  • HMS Diane
  • USS Norfolk
• Axis of Time
  Axis of Time
  The Axis of Time trilogy is an alternate history series of novels written by Australian journalist and author John Birmingham, from Macmillan Publishing.-Plot:...
  
  trilogy by John Birmingham
  John Birmingham
  John Birmingham is an Australian author. Birmingham was born in Liverpool, England and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1970.-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • USS Hillary Clinton
  • USS Kandahar
  • USS Leyte Gulf
  • USS Amanda Garrett
  • USS Providence
  • USS Kennebunkport
  • HMS Trident
  • HMS Vanguard
  • HMS Fearless
  • HMS Dolphin by L.A. Meyer
  • HMAS Havoc
  • HMAS Moreton Bay
  • HMAS Ipswich Royal Australian Navy Fremantle Class Patrol Boat
  • JDS Siranui
  • KRI Nuku
  • KRI Sutanto
  • Dessaix
• Biggles
  Biggles
  "Biggles" , a pilot and adventurer, is the title character and main hero of the Biggles series of youth-oriented adventure books written by W. E. Johns....
  
   series by W. E. Johns
  W. E. Johns
  William Earl Johns was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.-Early life:...
  
  
  • 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
• Bolitho
  Richard Bolitho
  The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman . They focus on the military careers of Richard Bolitho and Adam Bolitho in the Royal Navy, from the time of the American Revolution past the Napoleonic Era.-Richard Bolitho:Richard Bolitho is a fictional Royal Navy...
  
   series by Alexander Kent
  Douglas Reeman
  Douglas Edward Reeman, born at Thames Ditton, is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
  
  
  • HMS Gorgon
    HMS Gorgon
    Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Gorgon, after the Gorgon of Greek mythology:*HMS Gorgon was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1785...
    
    
  • 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
    Nicholas Monsarrat
    Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat RNVR was a British novelist known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes , but perhaps best known internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.- Early life :Born...
    
     (based on the real HMS Shearwater
    HMS Shearwater (L39)
    HMS Shearwater was a Kingfisher-class sloop of the Royal Navy.Shearwater was laid down at J. Samuel White, Cowes on 15 August 1938. She was launched on 18 April 1939 and commissioned on 7 September 1939. She served during the Second World War and survived to be sold for scrapping on 21 April 1947...
    
    )
• Edward Mainwaring series by Victor Suthren
  Victor Suthren
  Victor Suthren is a Canadian writer and historian. A native of Montreal, he was educated at Bishop's, McGill and Concordia universities before joining the Canadian Public Service in 1971...
  
  
  • HMS Pallas
• Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two seminal sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by Fritz Leiber . They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories....
  
  series by Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  
  • Black Treasurer
• Harry Potter
  Harry Potter
  Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
  
  series by J. K. Rowling
  J. K. Rowling
  Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...
  
  
  • The Durmstrang ship
• Flashman
  Harry Paget Flashman
  Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser , but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays , a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ....
  
  series by George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser
  George MacDonald Fraser, OBE was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
  • Balliol College — slave-trader
• Horatio Hornblower
  Horatio Hornblower
  Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and television programs.The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy...
  
   series by CS Forester
  • HMS Atropos
  • HMS Clorinda
  • HMS Hotspur
    HMS Hotspur
    Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hotspur after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy:* The first Hotspur was a 36-gun fifth-rate in service from 1810 to 1821....
    
    
  • HMS Justinian
  • HMS Lydia
  • HMS Nonsuch
    HMS Nonsuch
    Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nonsuch, presumably named after Nonsuch Palace:, a 38-gun great ship, rebuilt from a previous ship and sold c...
    
    
  • HM Sloop Retribution
  • HMS Sutherland
    HMS Sutherland
    Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sutherland:*HMS Sutherland was a fourth-rate of 54 guns launched in 1704 as HMS Reserve. She served as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean 1741, and was condemned in 1744...
    
    
  • HMS Witch of Endor
    HMS Witch of Endor
    HMS Witch of Endor is a cutter in the Horatio Hornblower novel Flying Colours. She was taken as a prize by the French Navy a year before the events of the novel, and moored at the mouth of the Loire River, at Nantes. There, she is taken by Hornblower and his companions, Bush and Brown, who are...
    
    
  • Mejidieh
  • Natividad
• Inheritance cycle
  Inheritance Cycle
  The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy novels by Christopher Paolini. It was previously titled the Inheritance Trilogy until Paolini's announcement on October 30, 2007 that there would be a fourth book...
  
   series by Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance...
  
  
  • The Dragon Wing
• Lord Ramage
  Lord Ramage
  Nicholas, Lord Ramage was the fictional character at the centre of a series of sea novels written by Dudley Pope. Ramage was an officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.-Early life:...
  
   series by Dudley Pope
  Dudley Pope
  Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. Greatly inspired by C.S. Forester, Pope was one of the most successful authors to explore the genre of nautical fiction, often compared to Patrick...
  
  
  • 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
    East India Company
    The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
    
     24-gun warship
  • Magicienne - French frigate
  • Otter - East India Company
    East India Company
    The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
    
     18-gun warship
  • HMS Wasp - British brigantine
• Nathaniel Drinkwater
  Nathaniel Drinkwater
  Nathaniel Drinkwater is a fictional character, the protagonist of a series of novels by Richard Woodman. In the series, he is an officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.- Life :...
  
   series by Richard Woodman
  Richard Woodman
  Richard Woodman is an English novelist and naval historian who retired in 1997 from a 37 year nautical career, mainly working for Trinity House, to write full time. His main work is 14 volumes about the career of Nathaniel Drinkwater, and shorter series about James Dunbar and William Kite, but he...
  
  
  • HM Cutter Kestrel
  • HM Brig Hellebore
  • HM Bomb-vessel Virago
  • HMS Melusine
  • HMS Antigone former French frigate
  • HMS Patrician
  • Vestal paddle-steamer
• Para Handy
  Para Handy
  Para Handy, the anglicized Gaelic nickname of the fictional character Peter Macfarlane, is a character created by the journalist and writer Neil Munro in a series of stories published in the Glasgow Evening News under the pen name of Hugh Foulis....
  
   series by Neil Munro
  Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis)
  Neil Munro was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was born in Inveraray and worked as a journalist on various newspapers....
  
  
  • Vital Spark
    Vital Spark
    The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: "the smertest boat in the coastin' tred"....
    
    
• Paul Gallant series by Victor Suthren
  Victor Suthren
  Victor Suthren is a Canadian writer and historian. A native of Montreal, he was educated at Bishop's, McGill and Concordia universities before joining the Canadian Public Service in 1971...
  
  
  • Echo corvette
• The Chronicles of Narnia
  The Chronicles of Narnia
  The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages...
  
  series by C. S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
  
  
  • Dawn Treader
    Dawn Treader
    The Dawn Treader was a Narnian ship in the fictional world of The Chronicles of Narnia. It was built by King Caspian X and is featured primarily in the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader...
    
    
  • Splendor Hyaline
• Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove
  Harry Turtledove
  Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
  
  
  • USS Chapultepec — aircraft carrier
  • USS Dakota — Battleship — The Great War: American Front
    The Great War: American Front
    The Great War: American Front is the first alternate history novel in the Great War trilogy by Harry Turtledove. It is part II of Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of novels. It takes the Southern Victory Series from 1914 to 1915.-Plot summary:...
    
    
  • 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
    The Great War: Walk in Hell
    The Great war: Walk in Hell is the second book in the Great War series of alternate history books by Harry Turtledove. It is also part of the Southern Victory Series series...
    
    
  • USS Remembrance
  • 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
• Travis McGee
  Travis McGee
  Travis McGee is a fictional character, created by prolific American mystery writer John D. MacDonald. Unlike most detectives in crime fiction, McGee is neither a police officer nor a licensed private investigator; instead, he is a self-described "salvage consultant" who recovers others' property...
  
   series by John D. McDonald
  • Busted Flush — houseboat
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Thorstein Veblen
  • HooBoy' -- charter fishing boat'
• Dray Prescot series
  Dray Prescot series
  The Dray Prescot series is a sequence of fifty-three science fiction novels and a number of associated short stories of the subgenre generally classified as sword and planet, written by Kenneth Bulmer under the pseudonym of Alan Burt Akers....
  
  by Kenneth Bulmer
  Kenneth Bulmer
  Henry Kenneth Bulmer was a British author, primarily of science fiction.-Life:Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and were divorced in 1981...
  
   (as Alan Burt Akers)
  • HMS Rockingham
• Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
  
  
  • The Five Orange Pips
    The Five Orange Pips
    "The Five Orange Pips", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes....
    
    
    • Lone Star
  • The Cardboard Box
    • May Day (Liverpool and London Line)
    • Conqueror (Liverpool and London Line)
  • The Adventure of Black Peter
    The Adventure of Black Peter
    "The Adventure of Black Peter" is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's.-Plot summary:...
    
    
    • Sea Unicorn (whaler
      Whaler
      A whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
      
      )
• Bloody Jack series by Louis A. Meyer
  Louis A. Meyer
  Louis A. Meyer Meyer, L.A. , brief autobiography on author's own webpage. Accessed February 25, 2009. writes under the name L.A. Meyer. He is best known as the author of the Bloody Jack seafaring novels. He is also a painter....
  
  
  • HMS Dolphin
  • HMS Hope
  • HMS Wolverine
  • Bloodhound
  • Nancy B. Alsop
  • Belle of the Golden West
  • Emerald
  • HMS Juno
• Jack Ryan universe series by Tom Clancy
  Tom Clancy
  Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...
  
  
  • Red October, a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine
  • V.K. Konovalov
    Vladimir Konovalov
    Rear Admiral Vladimir Konstantinovich Konovalov, Владимир Константинович Коновалов was a Soviet Navy distinguished submarine commander during World War II....
    
    , a Soviet Alfa
    Alfa class submarine
    The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...
    
    -class submarine
  • E.S. Politovsky, a Soviet Alfa
    Alfa class submarine
    The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...
    
    -class submarine

Norse mythology

• Hringhorni
  Hringhorni
  In Norse mythology, Hringhorni is the name of the ship of the god Baldr, described as the "greatest of all ships". According to Gylfaginning, following the murder of Baldr by Loki, the other gods brought his body down to the sea and laid him to rest on the ship...
  
  , the ship of Baldr
• Naglfar
  Naglfar
  In Norse mythology, Naglfar or Naglfari is a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. During the events of Ragnarök, Naglfar is foretold to sail to Vígríðr, ferrying hordes that will there battle with the gods...
  
  , a ship in Norse mythology
  Norse mythology
  Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology, is the overall term for the myths, legends and beliefs about supernatural beings of Norse pagans. It flourished prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia, during the Early Middle Ages, and passed into Nordic folklore, with some aspects surviving...
  
   made of the fingernails and toenails of the dead
• Skíðblaðnir
  Skíðblaðnir
  In Norse mythology, Skíðblaðnir is the best of ships. Skíðblaðnir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson...
  
  , the ship of Freyr
  Freyr
  Freyr is one of the most important gods of Norse paganism. Freyr was highly associated with farming, weather and, as a phallic fertility god, Freyr "bestows peace and pleasure on mortals"...
  
  

Radio

• Empress of Coconut — Potarneyland cruise liner, The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark was a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth, though in series 1 and 2 the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island." In series 2 this island was revealed to be...
  
  
• HMS Makepeace — British destroyer, The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark was a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth, though in series 1 and 2 the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island." In series 2 this island was revealed to be...
  
  
• Marie Valette — 18th century ship sunk in the English Channel
  English Channel
  The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...
  
  , The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark was a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth, though in series 1 and 2 the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island." In series 2 this island was revealed to be...
  
  
• Poppadum — Potarneyland frigate, The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark was a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth, though in series 1 and 2 the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island." In series 2 this island was revealed to be...
  
  
• Saucy Seagull — British fishing trawler, The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark was a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth, though in series 1 and 2 the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island." In series 2 this island was revealed to be...
  
  
• HMS Troutbridge — British frigate, The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark was a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth, though in series 1 and 2 the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island." In series 2 this island was revealed to be...
  
  

Stage

• Flying Dutchman — in the opera The Flying Dutchman
  The Flying Dutchman (opera)
  Der fliegende Holländer is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner.Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write "The Flying Dutchman" following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839, but in his 1843...
  
  by Richard Wagner
  Richard Wagner
  Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
  
   and other plays, movies and novels.
• HMS Pinafore
  HMS Pinafore
  H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...
  
   by Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...
  
  
• Tarantula — The Pirates of Penzance
  The Pirates of Penzance
  The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...
  
   by Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...
  
  
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) — Mister Roberts
  Mister Roberts (play)
  Mister Roberts is a 1948 play based on the 1946 Thomas Heggen novel of the same name.The novel began as a collection of short stories about Heggen's experiences aboard the USS Virgo in the South Pacific during World War II...
  
  (also appears in novel, films, and TV series versions)

Television

• HMAS Ambush — Patrol Boat
  Patrol Boat (TV series)
  Patrol Boat is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Patrol Boat was created by James Davern and two series were produced, in 1979 and 1983, with a total of 26 episodes....
  
  
• HMAS Defiance — Patrol Boat
  Patrol Boat (TV series)
  Patrol Boat is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Patrol Boat was created by James Davern and two series were produced, in 1979 and 1983, with a total of 26 episodes....
  
  
• HMAS Hammersley — Sea Patrol (TV series)
  Sea Patrol (TV series)
  Sea Patrol is an Australian television drama, set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy . The series focuses on the ship and the lives of its crew members....
  
  
• HMS Hero (F42)
  HMS Hero
  Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Hero:, a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed Rochester in 1800, and broken up 1810., a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1803 and wrecked on 25 December 1811, with the loss of all her crew, inside the northern Haaks about five...
  
   — Warship
  Warship (TV series)
  Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. It was also dubbed into Dutch and broadcast in the Netherlands as Alle hens...
  
  
• Argonaut — Mike Nelson's boat in Sea Hunt
  Sea Hunt
  Sea Hunt was an American adventure television series that was aired in syndication by Ziv Television Programs from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced...
  
  , ' 50s series
• Batboat
  Batboat
  The Batboat is the fictional personal watercraft of comic book superhero Batman.-Comics:In Sub-Level 6 of the Batcave, there's an aqua-dynamic hydrofoil/submersible on both the navigable Gotham River and the Atlantic Ocean's waters.-Background:Early in his career, while investigating arms dealers...
  
   — Batman
  Batman
  Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
  
  
• SS Bernice — a cargo ship in the Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  serial Carnival of Monsters
  Carnival of Monsters
  Carnival of Monsters is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 27 January to 17 February 1973....
  
  
• Black Pig — Captain Pugwash
  Captain Pugwash
  Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action , also called Captain Pugwash, first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour...
  
   — UK children's TV cartoon series
• SS Claridon — Ocean liner (based on the RMS Queen Mary
  RMS Queen Mary
  RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line...
  
  ) in Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...
  
  
• Golden Lolly — pirate ship, Henry's Cat
  Henry's Cat
  Henry's Cat is an animated children's television programme, written by Stan Hayward and produced by Bob Godfrey, who was also the producer of Roobarb, a similar cartoon series from the 1970s...
  
  
• Gone Fission — Mr. Burns
  Montgomery Burns
  Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns, usually referred to as Mr. Burns, is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, who is voiced by Harry Shearer and previously Christopher Collins. Burns is the evil owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and is Homer...
  
  ' yacht — The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
  
• Greasy Fleece — pirate ship, Henry's Cat
  Henry's Cat
  Henry's Cat is an animated children's television programme, written by Stan Hayward and produced by Bob Godfrey, who was also the producer of Roobarb, a similar cartoon series from the 1970s...
  
  
• Haunted Star — General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  
• Horatio Hornblower
  Horatio Hornblower
  Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and television programs.The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy...
  
  
  • HMS Indefatigable — 74 gun ship-of-the-line (Edward Pellew, Capt.)
  • HMS Hotspur
    HMS Hotspur
    Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hotspur after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy:* The first Hotspur was a 36-gun fifth-rate in service from 1810 to 1821....
    
     — 20-gun sloop
  • HMS Justinian — 74-gun ship-of-the-line
  • Papillion — French frigate
  • Le Rève — French sloop
• JAG
  JAG (TV series)
  JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
  
   / NCIS
  NCIS (TV series)
  NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
  
   universe
  • USS Angel Shark (SSGN-559)
  • USS Benjamin Harrison (CVN-79)
  • USS Bennington (CVN-78)
  • USS Bladensburg (LPH-12)
  • USS Cathedral City (SSN-757)
    USS Alexandria (SSN-757)
    USS Alexandria , a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for both Alexandria, Virginia, and Alexandria, Louisiana.- Construction :...
    
    
  • USS Cayuga (DDG-51)
    USS Cayuga
    Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Cayuga for one of the six Iroquois tribes. was a screw steamer launched in 1861 and served during the American Civil War....
    
    
  • USS Connolly (CVN-84)
  • USS Crawford (SSN-806)
  • USS Daniel Boone (DDG-72)
  • USS Ellyson (FFG-19)
  • USS Gainsville
  • USS Gillcrist (DDG-114)
  • USS Hartung (DD-998)
  • USS Hennessey (FFG-65)
  • USS John Cooper (DDG-99)
  • USS Manassas (CG-74)
  • USS Monroe Smith (FFG-63)
  • USS Montana (CGN-42)
  • USS Patrick Henry (CVN-74)
  • USS Reprisal (CV-35)
  • USS San Michel
  • USS Seahawk (CVN-65)
  • USS Skerrett (EDDG-31)
  • USS Stanley Dace
  • USS Stockdale (FFG-62)
  • USS Suribachi (LST-1186)
  • USS Thomas Jefferson
    USS Thomas Jefferson
    USS Thomas Jefferson may refer to: was an attack transport in service from 1941 to 1949, and scrapped in 1974 was an Ethan Allen-class ballistic missile submarine commissioned in 1963. She remained on active service until 1985.See also...
    
    
  • USS Thomas Lyons
  • USS Tigershark
  • USS Vance (DDG-101)
  • USS Wake Island
  • USS Watertown (SSN-696)
    USS Watertown
    * The only United States Navy ship named Watertown was the Missile Range Instrumentation Ship USNS Watertown .* USS Watertown is a fictional Los Angeles-class submarine occasionally appearing on the television show JAG. SSN-696 is actually USS New York City....
    
    
  • Vasiliev — Russian destroyer
• USS Walter Mondale
  Walter Mondale
  Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...
  
   — laundry ship from The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
  , mentioned in the episode Bart vs. Australia
  Bart vs. Australia
  "Bart vs. Australia" is the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 19, 1995. In the episode, Bart is indicted for fraud in Australia, and the family travels to the country so Bart can apologize...
  
  
• USS Kiwi — The Wackiest Ship in the Army
  The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV series)
  The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American comedy series that aired for one season on NBC between September 19, 1965, and April 17, 1966. Produced by Harry Ackerman and Herbert Hirschman, the series is loosely based on the 1960 film starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson.-Synopsis:The series is...
  
  
• SS Lady Anne — cruise ship, "Passage on the Lady Anne
  Passage on the Lady Anne
  "Passage on the Lady Anne" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:Six years into a troubled marriage, a young couple hopefully embark on a second honeymoon and their last chance at reconciliation...
  
  " episode of The Twilight Zone
  The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
  The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...
  
  
• HMS Lindana - sloop - Phineas and Ferb
  Phineas and Ferb
  Phineas and Ferb is an American animated television comedy series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel, the series follows Phineas Flynn and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher on summer vacation. Every day the boys embark on some grand new project, which...
  
  
• SS Minnow — Gilligan's Island
  Gilligan's Island
  Gilligan's Island is an American television series created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The situation comedy series featured Bob Denver; Alan Hale, Jr.; Jim Backus; Natalie Schafer; Tina Louise; Russell Johnson; and Dawn Wells. It aired for...
  
  
• SS Moldavia - passenger ship, You Rang, M'Lord?
  You Rang, M'Lord?
  You Rang M'Lord? is a British television series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC...
  
  
• USS Monroe (DD-211) — The Pretender
  The Pretender (TV series)
  The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with "the ability to become anyone he wants to be," i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work...
  
  
• The Onedin Line
  The Onedin Line
  The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin...
  
  series
  • Anne Onedin — a steamship
  • Charlotte Rhodes — first ship of James Onedin
  • Medusa
  • Pampero
  • Soren Larsen
• Naughty Jane — rowboat, Dad's Army
  Dad's Army
  Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...
  
  
• Persephone — log salvage boat from The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television...
  
  
• Piper Maru — French ship from The X-Files
  The X-Files
  The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
  
  episode Piper Maru
  Piper Maru
  "Piper Maru" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the fifteenth episode broadcast in the show's third season. Piper Maru introduces the alien black oil and features the return of Alex Krycek.- Plot :...
  
  
• U.S.S. Ardent — American naval destroyer from The X-Files
  The X-Files
  The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
  
  episode Død Kalm
  Død Kalm
  "Død Kalm" is the nineteenth episode of the second season of The X-Files science fiction television series created by Chris Carter. It aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company on March 10, 1995.-Plot:...
  
  
• PT 73 — the PT boat
  PT boat
  PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were...
  
   from McHale's Navy
  McHale's Navy
  McHale's Navy is an American television sitcom series which ran for 138 half-hour episodes from October 11,1962, to August 31, 1966, on the ABC network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated in a one-hour drama called Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962...
  
  
• PT-116 — McHale's Navy
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) — World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts
  Mister Roberts (TV series)
  Mister Roberts is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. Based on the best selling novel, 1948 play, and the 1955 film of the same name, the series starred Roger Smith in the title role.-Synopsis:...
  
  (also appears in novel, play and film versions)
• SS Tipton — The Suite Life on Deck
  The Suite Life on Deck
  The Suite Life on Deck is an American sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from September 26, 2008 to May 6, 2011. It is a sequel/spin-off of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody...
  
  
• USOS Seaview
  USOS Seaview
  Seaview, a fictitious privately owned nuclear submarine, was the setting for the 1961 motion picture Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, starring Walter Pidgeon, and later for the 1964 – 1968 ABC television series of the same title....
  
   — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction film, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released by 20th Century Fox in 1961. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane...
  
  
• seaQuest DSV 4600
  SeaQuest DSV 4600
  The UEO seaQuest DSV 4600 and the UEO seaQuest DSV 4600-II are the two titular submarines featured in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV", which ran for three seasons on NBC from 1993-1996...
  
   — seaQuest DSV
  SeaQuest DSV
  seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future", seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction...
  
  
• USS Sea Spanker — aircraft carrier, from the New Kids on the Blecch
  New Kids on the Blecch
  "New Kids on the Blecch" is the fourteenth episode from the twelfth season of The Simpsons. In the episode, a music producer selects Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph to be members of the next hit boyband, who record subliminal songs about joining the Navy....
  
   episode of The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
  
• SkyDiver
  SkyDiver
  Skydiver was a fictional futuristic submarine featured in Gerry Anderson’s TV series UFO, operated by the secretive SHADO organisation as part of Earth's defences against alien aggressors.Like many Anderson vehicles, Skydiver was designed by Derek Meddings...
  
   — UFO
  UFO (TV series)
  UFO is a 1970-1971 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.UFO first aired in the UK and Canada...
  
  1970–1971
• Sultana —The Buccaneers 1956
• Thunderbird 4 Thunderbirds
  Thunderbirds (TV series)
  Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation"...
  
  
• Temperance - Bones
  Bones (TV series)
  Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...
  
  
• Tiki III — schooner in Adventures in Paradise
  Adventures in Paradise
  Adventures in Paradise is an American television series which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962. It starred Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. The show was created by James Michener...
  
  1960s series by James Michener
• Thunder — super speedboat in Thunder in Paradise
  Thunder in Paradise
  Thunder in Paradise was a one-hour action-adventure TV series from the creators of Baywatch, which starred Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon, and Carol Alt. This first-run syndicated TV series originally premiered as a straight-to-video feature film in September 1993, then ran for one season in 1994, before...
  
  1994

Video games

• Scinfaxi & Hrimfaxi — Aircraft carrier submarines featured in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
  Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
  , released in the PAL region as Ace Combat: Squadron Leader, is a semi-realistic flight combat video game for the PlayStation 2. Like other titles in Namco's Ace Combat series, Ace Combat 5 features gameplay that is a mix between arcade flight and authentic flight simulation...
  
  
• Gangplank Galleon — Donkey Kong Country
  Donkey Kong Country
  Donkey Kong Country is a side-scrolling platformer video game developed by Rare, featuring the character Donkey Kong. It was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Following an intense marketing campaign, the original SNES version sold over 8 million copies worldwide, making...
  
  series
• Jolly Roger's ship — Super Mario 64
  Super Mario 64
  is a platform game, published by Nintendo and developed by its EAD division, for the Nintendo 64. Along with Pilotwings 64, it was one of the launch titles for the console. It was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, and later in North America, Europe, and Australia. Super Mario 64 has sold over...
  
  
• OFS Kestrel — Aircraft Carrier in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
  Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
  , released in the PAL region as Ace Combat: Squadron Leader, is a semi-realistic flight combat video game for the PlayStation 2. Like other titles in Namco's Ace Combat series, Ace Combat 5 features gameplay that is a mix between arcade flight and authentic flight simulation...
  
  and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
  Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
  is a semi-realistic flight simulator developed by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is part of the Ace Combat series of games...
  
  
• SS Anne — Ship in Pokémon games
• The Antaeus, an "adaptive cruiser" in Hostile Waters
  Hostile Waters (game)
  Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising is a hybrid vehicle and strategy game released on the PC in 2001 by the British company Rage Games Limited. It was inspired by an earlier game known as Carrier Command .-Plot:...
  
  : Antaeus Rising
• USS Liberty — amphibious assault ship in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a 2004 open world action video game developed by British games developer Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the third 3D game in the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise, the fifth original console release and eighth game overall...
  
  
• Luna Lucura — cargo vessel in Jurassic Park: Chaos Island
  Jurassic Park: Chaos Island
  Jurassic Park: Chaos Island is a PC game released in 1997 to coincide with the release of The Lost World: Jurassic Park...
  
  
• Maria Doria — Tomb Raider 2
• The "Salty Hippo"- Captain Blubber's ship in the [Banjo-Kazooie] series of games.
• The S.S. Zelbess (alternately the S.S. Invincible) in Chrono Cross
  Chrono Cross
  is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is the sequel to Chrono Trigger, which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System...
  
  
• The Eastern Spirit — decommissioned Russian whaler rebuilt to serve as supply-ship and secondary laboratory in Cold Fear
  Cold Fear
  -Reception:The game received mixed or average reviews. Review aggregator Metacritic indicates that the Xbox version of the game received a score of 71 out of 100, a 68 out of 100 for the Playstation 2 version and a 66 out of 100 for the Windows version....
  
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• Elisabeth Dane — Small cargo ship Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
  Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
  Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, abbreviated as Bloodlines or VTMB, is a computer role-playing game for Windows developed by Troika Games in 2004...
  
  
• The USS Ravenswood — Coastguard ship in Cold Fear
  Cold Fear
  -Reception:The game received mixed or average reviews. Review aggregator Metacritic indicates that the Xbox version of the game received a score of 71 out of 100, a 68 out of 100 for the Playstation 2 version and a 66 out of 100 for the Windows version....
  
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• The GFS Olympus and the GFS Valhalla from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a first-person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It is the tenth game in the Metroid series, and the final entry in the Metroid Prime trilogy—excluding two spin-off titles. It was released in...
  
  
• The Space Pirate Vessel Orpheon from Metroid Prime
  Metroid Prime
  Metroid Prime is a video game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube, released in North America on November 17, 2002...
  
  
• The GFS Tyr from Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
• The Borealis — abandoned ship in Half-Life 2 Episode 2
• The S.S. Selene — Cargo vessel commanded by Ronnie Olsen in Freedom Wings
  Freedom Wings
  Freedom Wings is a flight simulator developed by Taito and published by Natsume in the US and Zoo Digital Publishing in Europe. The game combined elements of flight simulators and RPGs as players earned experience points for combat, earn money and maintain other statuses.-Story:The game takes place...
  
  
• The RMS Artanic - Royal Mail Ship commanded by Antares Andrews in Blockland
  Blockland
  Blockland is a multiplayer computer game built on the Torque Game Engine, in which players build using Lego-like building blocks. It was developed by Eric "Badspot" Hartman and was released on February 24, 2007. The game is not endorsed by, or affiliated with the Lego brand. However, at one point,...
  
  
• The Reaver - The name of Reaver's ship, originally going to be named the Narcissus in Fable II

Folklore

• HMS Friday
  HMS Friday
  HMS Friday is an urban legend concerning a disastrous attempt by the Royal Navy to dispel the superstition against sailing on a Friday. While widely circulated, the story is in fact untrue; moreover, there was never a ship named HMS Friday....
  
  , a popular urban legend
• Flying Dutchman
• Courser or the Tuscarora, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong
  Alfred Bulltop Stormalong
  Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts. Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some tall; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the...
  
  's clipper ship

See also

• List of ship names of the Royal Navy#Fictional
• Flying submarine
  Flying submarine
  A flying submarine or submersible aircraft is a craft able both to fly or travel under water.-History:The Soviet Union tried to develop a flying submarine during World War II. The design could have operated at 150 knots in the air and 3 knots in the water. Metal plates sealed the engines shut...
  
  
• Submarine films