This List of fictional ships lists artificial vehicles supported by water, which are either the subject of, or an important element of, a notable work of fiction.
[edit] Anime and manga
[edit] Comics
- 903 - Iranian Kilo class submarine in Steel Sharks, 1996
- USS Abraham Lincoln — frigate in Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954
- Academic Vladislav Volkov — Russian research ship in Virus, 1999
- Acheron — French Napoleonic frigate in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003
- African Queen — The African Queen, 1951 with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn
- Albatross — The Sea Hawk with Errol Flynn, 1940
- Amindra — with shanghaied sailor from the Glencairn, torpedoed and sank in The Long Voyage Home, 1940
- SS Andes — cruise ship in Let's Go Native, 1930
- SS Antonia Graza — derelict Italian luxury ocean liner in Ghost Ship
- Aquanaut 3 - experimental submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
- Arabella — Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935
- Argo — galley Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film), Jason and the Argonauts (TV miniseries)
- Argonautica — cruise ship Deep Rising
- USS Aspen — Full Fathom Five
- HMS Avenger — Billy Budd 1962
- Batavia Queen — steamship Krakatoa, East of Java 1969
- HMS Bedford — British Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
- USS Bedford (DLG-113) — The Bedford Incident (also in book version)
- Belafonte — oceanographic research vessel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- USS Belinda (APA-22) — Away All Boats, 1956 (Also appears in original novel)
- Benthic Explorer — offshore support ship — The Abyss 1989
- Black Hawk — The Pirate of the Black Hawk (Il Pirata dello sparviero nero) 1958
- Black Pearl (formerly HMS Wicked Wench) — slaver turned pirate ship Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Black Swan — The Black Swan 1942
- Brandenburg — World War II German battleship in We Dive at Dawn 1943
- SS Britannic — cruise ship in Juggernaut
- USS Caine — The Caine Mutiny (Also appears in written version)
- USS Charleston - On the Beach, 2000
- HMS Chester — British Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
- SSN Davies (SSN-???) - Los Angeles Class SSN in Crash Dive, 1996
- HMS Devonshire — British Type 23 frigate sunk in Tomorrow Never Dies
- SS Chiku Shan — ferryboat — Blood Alley (1955)
- SS Claridon — ocean liner in The Last Voyage 1960
- HMS Compass Rose — Second World War corvette in The Cruel Sea, 1953
- USS Copperfin — World War II sub Destination Tokyo, 1943 w/ Cary Grant
- HMS Dauntless — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- HMS Defiant — frigate in HMS Defiant, 1962
- Disco Volante — motor yacht/hydrofoil in Thunderball 1965
- USS Dragonfish — U.S. Submarine in Battle of the Coral Sea 1959
- Dulcibella — The Riddle of the Sands 1979
- USS Echo — sailing ship from The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 1959
- Edinburgh Trader — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Elizabeth Dane — The Fog
- 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 (1955) with John Wayne and Lana Turner, and Patriot Games (1992) with Harrison Ford.
- Esther — sailing merchantman, Old Ironsides 1926
- Flying Dutchman — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Geronimo — America's Cup racing yacht, Wind 1992
- Ghost — sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf 1941
- Glencairn — freighter — The Long Voyage Home
- Gloria N — E la nave va..., Federico Fellini
- SS Goliath — ocean liner — Goliath Awaits — TV film 1981
- Hahnchen Maru — cargo vessel modified to command ship — Contact, 1997
- Hai Peng — Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- SS Happy Wanderer — cruise liner — Carry On Cruising
- USS Haynes (DE-181) — destroyer escort, The Enemy Below
- The Henrietta - paddle steamer - Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
- Immer Essen ("Always eating") — cruise ship, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- The Inferno — The Goonies
- HMS Interceptor — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- USS Intrepid — cruise ship in the film Intrepid
- JDS Isokaze — Aegis (Bôkoku no îgisu) 2005
- Jenny — Forrest Gump
- USS Kornblatt — Don't Give Up The Ship, 1959, starred Jerry Lewis
- USS Lansing (SSN-795) - Los Angeles Class SSN (Depicted as an SSBN) in Danger Beneath The Sea, 2001
- Liparus — Karl Stromberg's submarine swallowing supertanker The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
- SS Lorelei — An ocean liner in Ghost Ship
- HMS Lydia — Captain Horatio Hornblower 1951
- Mary Deare — The Wreck of the Mary Deare, starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, 1959
- USS Mako - Fast Attack Submarine in Danger Beneath The Sea, 2001
- USS Montana — The Abyss, The Fifth Missile
- Morning Star —Cutthroat Island 1995
- Nathan Ross — whaling ship, All the Brothers Were Valiant 1953
- Nautilus — Captain Nemo's 1860s submarine — 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City 1969, Mysterious Island, The Return of Captain Nemo 1978, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003
- HMS Nereid - Royal Navy submarine, Virus, 1980
- USS Oakland (SSN-798) - Los Angeles Class SSN in Steel Sharks, 1996
- Olive Branch — sailing merchantman, Captain Caution, 1940
- Orca — Quint's fishing boat, Jaws, 1975
- Patna — tramp steamer in Lord Jim 1965
- Pequod — whaleship, Moby Dick 1956, 1978, 1998
- USS Pequod - American submarine, 2010: Moby Dick, 2010
- Poseidon — ocean liner/cruise ship, The Poseidon Adventure 1972, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 1979, The Poseidon Adventure 2005, Poseidon 2006
- USS Poseidon — USS Poseidon: Phantom Below 2005
- The Princess — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Q Boat — Q's 'fishing boat' The World Is Not Enough 1999
- "Proteus" - nuclear mini submarine from the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage." [1]
- Rachel — Moby-Dick, 1956, 1998
- Rasputin - Ex-Soviet Submarine in Rapid Assault, 1997
- The Reaper- Dog's ship in Cutthroat Island, 1995
- The Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne, 1948
- USS Reluctant (AK-601) — World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (1955) and the 1984 television film (also appears in novel, play and TV series versions)
- U-571 appears in U-571 (film), coincidently same number as German submarine U-571
- Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd, 1962
- Rob Roy — commercial freighter, Windbag the Sailor, 1936
- USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles, 1966
- HMS Saltash Castle — Second World War frigate in The Cruel Sea, 1953
- Saracen — yacht, Dead Calm
- USS Sarasota - Aircraft Carrier, Crash Dive, 1996 & Rapid Assault, 1997
- USS Sawfish — On the Beach, 1959
- USS Scotia - submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
- Sea Star — tug in Virus, 1999
- HMS Sea Tiger — Second World War submarine, We Dive at Dawn, 1943
- USS Sea Tiger — World War II submarine, Operation Petticoat 1977
- SS Sea Witch — Action in the North Atlantic 1943
- SSNR Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1961 with Walter Pidgeon
- HMS Shag at Sea - yacht, Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002
- HMS Sherwood - British cruiser, Carry on Admiral 1957
- HMS Solent - British destroyer, Sink the Bismarck! 1960
- IJN Shinaru — Japanese aircraft carrier, Torpedo Run 1958
- Stealth Ship — media mogul Elliot Carver's secret news creator in Tomorrow Never Dies. Is based on the real life Sea Shadow (IX-529) 1997
- St. Georges — British spy ship trawler For Your Eyes Only 1981
- USS Starfish — Hellcats of the Navy
- USS Stingray - Balao-class submarine, Down Periscope, 1996 with Kelsey Grammer; no relation to the Salmon-class SS-186 USS Stingray
- USS Thunderfish — Operation Pacific, 1954 with John Wayne
- USS Tiger Shark — The Atomic Submarine
- SS Titanic II — cruise liner, Titanic II, 2010
- HMS Torrin — In Which We Serve, 1942
- Ulysses — submarine, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- SSN Ulysses (SSN-???) - Los Angeles Class in Crash Dive, 1996
- USS Valhalla (SSN-905) - Los Angeles Class SSN in Rapid Assault, 1997
- SS Venture — King Kong, 1933, 2005
- HMS Venus — British frigate — Carry On Jack, 1962
- HMS Victoria — British WWI ironclad, Britannic, 2000
- The Wanderer - Captain Ron, 1992 with Martin Short and Kurt Russell
- We're Here — Captains Courageous, 1937 with Spencer Tracy
- Wonkatania — Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (also appears in 2005 adaptation), based on the Cunard Line tradition of ending ships with an -ania (i.e., RMS Lusitania and RMS Aquitania)
- Yellow Submarine — The Beatles' psychedelic submarine
[edit] Literature
[edit] Single works
- USS Abraham Lincoln — frigate in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 1868
- Adventure — Oceangoing Salvage Tug — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
- African Queen — The African Queen by C. S. Forester
- HMS Amirante — Destroyer — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
- Antarctica — Whaling Factory Ship — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 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 — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
- Arabella — Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini, 1924
- HMS Aries — Leander Class frigate — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
- Argo — Jason and the Argonauts
- Artemis — Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
- HMS Artemis — The Ship, by C. S. Forester, 1943
- Astrea — Roman galley ship — Ben-Hur by Genl Lew Wallace, 1880
- Aurora — Armed whale catcher — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
- Auxoil — Oil-rig tender — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
- USS Avenger - Trident Class SSBN - Inoculate! by Neil Bayne, 1979
- Baalbek — Libyan Freighter — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
- Bachir — Libyan Auxiliary Cruiser — The Unripe Gold, by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1983
- USS Belinda (APA-22) — Away All Boats by Kenneth M. Dodson, 1954 (also appears in film version)
- Bellatrix — Motor yacht — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
- HMS Bellipotent — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
- Beryte — Libyan Auxiliary Cruiser — The Unripe Gold, by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1983
- Bird of Dawning — Bird of Dawning novel by John Masefield
- 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 (also appears in film version)
- HMS Calypso — frigate — The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester
- 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 aircraft carrier — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
- Caspar's Folly — Ocean racing trimaran — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
- Chimay — Whale Cacher — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
- SS Claridon — The Last Voyage
- HMS Compass Rose — The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951
- Covenant — brig, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
- Crozet — Whale Catcher — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
- HMS Cyclades — Leander Class frigate — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
- Dawn Treader - Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
- USS Delaware — frigate — The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester
- Demeter — Russian schooner in Dracula by Bram Stoker
- HMS Deterrent — Polaris missile-carrying SSBN- Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
- HMS Devastation — UK Submarine — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
- USS Dolphin — Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, 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 by Erskine Childers, 1903
- Duncan — ocean yacht, In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867
- HMS Eagle — Invincible Class aircraft carrier — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
- Erebus — Alaska
- Esmeralda - Racing Yawl - 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 — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1962
- Fin of God — Omnian ship, Small Gods
- The Fuwalda — Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914. The ship which took Tarzan's parents to Africa.
- USS Galveston - Aircraft Carrier - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
- USS Garcia — Eyes of the Hammer by Bob Mayer, 1991
- Ghost — sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904
- The Gloria Scott — from the earliest Sherlock Holmes story, by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Grande Rapide — Ocean racing catamaran — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
- Gratulana — Liberian oil tanker — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
- Grenouille Frenetique (Frantic Frog) — pirate ship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
- The Hesperus — from the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- HISPANIOLA (capitalized throughout the story) — Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Huntress — British survey ship — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
- Ilya Podogin - Soviet SSN - Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995
- USS Imperator - Submarine Amphibious Assault Ship - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
- Incroyable — Opium smuggling Clipper — The Watering Place of Good Peace by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1960
- USS Independence, a fictional Wasp class amphibious assault ship where a large part of the plot from The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place.
- HMS Indomitable — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
- Jeroboam — Moby-Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville
- Jolly Roger — Captain Hook's pirate ship — Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- 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 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 by CS Forester
- Kerguelen — Whale Catcher — 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 submarine — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
- USS Langley — a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier — The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman
- Laughing Sandbag — pirate ship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
- Leif Ericson — The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, 1975
- Leros — Greek Freighter — The Soukour Deadline by Anthony Trew, 1976
- Leopard - Akula class submarine - The Tiger Cruise by Richard Thompson, 1999
- USS Liberty - Trident Class SSBN - Inoculate! by Neil Bayne, 1979
- Lobitos — Panamanian 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), 1992
- HMAS Magpie — Mine-sweeper — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
- Malange - Freighter - - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman, 1967
- Marie Celeste — The Relation of J Habakuk Jephson by Arthur Conan Doyle (the real ship was Mary Celeste)
- Mary Deare — The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
- USS Mary Jane - Naval Oceanographic Research Ship - Fireplay by William Wingate, 1979
- HMS Massive — Polaris missile-carrying SSBN — 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 (name parodies the Pinta)
- HMS Missile - Polaris missile-carrying SSBN — Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
- Moonraker — Liberian 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
- 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 by William C. Brinkley, 1988
- Nautilus — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island
- Nellie — Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899
- HMS Nemesis — Tai-Pan by James Clavell, 1966
- Novgorod - Alfa class submarine - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
- Numestra del Oro - Armed Merchantman owned by a Colombian Cartel - Hammerheads by Dale Brown, 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 - Submarine by John Wingate, 1982
- Orel - Akula class submarine - 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 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Pequod — Moby-Dick,or The Whale, by Herman Melville, 1851
- USS Pequod — Firefox by Craig Thomas, 1977. Sturgeon-class SSN which rendezvoused on the Arctic ice to re-fuel the Mig-31 Firefox
- HMS Phoenix - SSN - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman, 1967
- HMS Plover — Bird class patrol boat — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
- Plymouth Corporation's Revenge — pirate ship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
- HMS Plymouth Sound — sailing Corvette — The Watering Place of Good Peace by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1960
- Poltava - Alfa class submarine - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
- Poppy — Opium smuggling schooner — 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 by William Brinkley
- USS Pyramus — Polaris missile-carrying SSBN - The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman, 1967
- Queequeg — The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket, 2004
- Rachel — Moby-Dick, or The Whale, in search of the Pequod
- USS Raleigh — Eyes of the Hammer by Bob Mayer, 1991
- Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch by Garland Roark
- Red October — Soviet submarine, The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 1984
- USS Reluctant (AK-601) — World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (also appears in play, film and TV series versions)
- HMS Retaliate — Polaris missile-carrying SSBN — Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
- USS Retribution - Trident Class SSBN - Inoculate! by Neil Bayne, 1979
- Retivy — Krivak class destroyer — The Antonov Project by Anthony Trew, 1979
- Rigel Star — Oil tanker — The Unripe Gold, by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1983
- Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
- USN Rio Grande — Aircraft Carrier — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
- USS Robert F. Kennedy — A stealth nuclear powered battle cruiser (BCGN) — North Cape by Joe Poyer
- Rocketing Spitfire — sloop — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
- USS Rosemont - Los Angeles Class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
- Ryazan - Alfa class submarine - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
- HMS Sabre — S-Class submarine — Two Hours to Darkness by Anthony Trew, 1963
- HMS Safari - Swiftsure Class - Submarine by John Wingate, 1982
- HMS Saltash — The Cruel Sea (HMS Saltash Castle in the film)
- USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
- Santa Cascara (later HMS Golden Vanity) — Spanish galleon captured by the British — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
- Santa Umbriago — Spanish warship — The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
- Saracen — Supertanker fitted with reinforced bow. — Collision by Anthony Wall, 1986
- Saratov - Alfa class submarine - Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor, 1987
- HMS Saturn - Swiftsure Class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
- Scorpion — Cruising yacht — Collision by Anthony Wall, 1986
- USS Scorpion — On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957
- USS Seamount — SSBN — The Krone Experiment by J. Craig Wheeler, 1986
- The Sea Witch — a yacht in The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
- USOS Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon, 1961
- 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, 1969
- USN Shenandoah — US Submarine — Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, 1966
- Shodo — Japanese Whaling Factory Ship — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
- Shodo 4 — Japanese whale catcher — The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, 1972
- Siren - yacht, A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse, 1919
- USS Skippack — SSN — Sea Fever by Anthony Trew, 1980
- Smolensk - Alfa class submarine - 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 by C. S. Lewis
- USS Starbuck (SSN-989)[citation needed] — Pacific Vortex! by Clive Cussler, 1983 (Cover of Sphere edition shows SSN-107 on the fin)
- USS Stevens — Oliver Hazard Perry Class frigate — Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
- USS Stinson — Spruance class destroyer — The Krone Experiment by J. Craig Wheeler, 1986
- USS Stormy Beach - Long Beach Class cruiser - Fireplay by William Wingate
- Student Prince — Freighter — The Soukour Deadline by Anthony Trew, 1976
- Samurai Maru — Japanese Seagoing Tugboat — 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, 1957
- USS Swordfish - Trident Class SSBN - 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, 1967
- Thorshammer — Norwegian Destroyer — A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins
- USS Thomas Jefferson — Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson
- HMS Thunder Child — The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- SS Titan — Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson, 1898
- 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 by George MacDonald Fraser
- HMS Ulysses — HMS Ulysses
- USS Urchin — Air Force One by Edwin Corley, 1978
- SS Valparaiso — Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow
- USS Vindicator (NMSS-3) — Nuclear-powered strategic missile battleship, Fire Lance by David Mace, 1986
- Vingilot — The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
- USS Viperfish — Spy Sub
- Vitebsk - Victor class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
- Vladimir - Victor class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
- Vologda - Victor class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
- Voronetz - Victor class - The Saturn Experiment - Peter Shepherd, 1988
- The Walrus — Flint's pirate ship in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- USS Warren Harding — in Robert Clark Young's naval satire One of the Guys
- We're Here — Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks, by Rudyard Kipling, 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) - Los Angeles Class - The Tiger Cruise by Richard Thompson, 1999
- Yabba-Dabba-Doo — Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff, 1997
[edit] Series
[edit] Norse mythology
[edit] Television
- HMAS Ambush — Patrol Boat
- HMAS Defiance — Patrol Boat
- HMAS Hammersley — Sea Patrol (TV series)
- HMS Hero (F42) — Warship
- Argonaut — Mike Nelson's boat in Sea Hunt, ' 50s series
- Batboat — Batman
- SS Bernice — a cargo ship in the Doctor Who serial Carnival of Monsters
- Black Pig — Captain Pugwash — UK children's TV cartoon series
- SS Claridon — Ocean liner (based on the RMS Queen Mary) in Ghost Whisperer
- Golden Lolly — pirate ship, Henry's Cat
- Gone Fission — Mr. Burns' yacht — The Simpsons
- Greasy Fleece — pirate ship, Henry's Cat
- Haunted Star — General Hospital
- Horatio Hornblower
- HMS Indefatigable — 74 gun ship-of-the-line (Edward Pellew, Capt.)
- HMS Hotspur — 20-gun sloop
- HMS Justinian — 74-gun ship-of-the-line
- Papillion — French frigate
- Le Rève — French sloop
- JAG / NCIS universe
- USS Walter Mondale — laundry ship from The Simpsons, mentioned in the episode Bart vs. Australia
- USS Kiwi — The Wackiest Ship in the Army
- SS Lady Anne — cruise ship, "Passage on the Lady Anne" episode of The Twilight Zone
- HMS Lindana - sloop - Phineas and Ferb
- SS Minnow — Gilligan's Island
- SS Moldavia - passenger ship, You Rang, M'Lord?
- USS Monroe (DD-211) — The Pretender
- The Onedin Line series
- Naughty Jane — rowboat, Dad's Army
- Persephone — log salvage boat from The Beachcombers
- Piper Maru — French ship from The X-Files episode Piper Maru
- U.S.S. Ardent — American naval destroyer from The X-Files episode Død Kalm
- PT 73 — the PT boat from McHale's Navy
- PT-116 — McHale's Navy
- USS Reluctant (AK-601) — World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (also appears in novel, play and film versions)
- SS Tipton — The Suite Life on Deck
- USOS Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- seaQuest DSV 4600 — seaQuest DSV
- USS Sea Spanker — aircraft carrier, from the New Kids on the Blecch episode of The Simpsons
- SkyDiver — UFO 1970–1971
- Sultana —The Buccaneers 1956
- Thunderbird 4 - Thunderbirds 1964
- Temperance - Bones
- Tiki III — schooner in Adventures in Paradise 1960s series by James Michener
- Thunder — super speedboat in Thunder in Paradise 1994
- Vast Explorer - Adventure Inc. 2003
[edit] Video games
[edit] Folklore
[edit] References
[edit] See also
