List of fictional ships

This is a list of fictional ships, waterborne vessels that have been identified by name in works of fiction but do not really exist as such (often a real ship is used as a stage set, but the real name is not used).

Anime and manga

Super 99 — Submarine Super 99
Blue 6 — Blue Submarine No. 6
Ghost Ship — Blue Submarine No. 6
Going Merry — One Piece
Thousand Sunny - One Piece
JDS Mirai — Zipang
Over the Rainbow, a renamed USS Harry S. Truman — Neon Genesis Evangelion
Pascal Magi — Tactical Roar
Shang 9 — Blue Submarine No. 6
Tuatha de Danaan — Full Metal Panic!
Zuko's Fire Nation ship
Thundersub - Thundersub
Yashiromaru — Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths
St. Aphrodite — Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths

Lidija “Lilia” Litvjak Terra Aircraft carrier Rah Xephon

Comics

Aurora — trawler in The Adventures of Tintin story "The Shooting Star
The Black Freighter - a metafictional pirate ship that is referenced throughout the Watchmen comic series
Cithara — alleged source distress signal in The Adventures of Tintin story The Shooting Star
Eagle's Shadow — Sir Nicholas Fury's ship in Marvel 1602
Hawksub — submarine used by the Blackhawks
Karaboudjan - cargo ship in The Adventures of Tintin story The Crab with the Golden Claws
SS Ramona — tramp steamer in The Adventures of Tintin story The Red Sea Sharks
Sea Queen\The Gertrude — Lex Luthor's yacht in Superman Returns
Sirius — expedition ship in The Adventures of Tintin story Red Rackham's Treasure
Sirius — ship in The Adventures of Tintin story The Shooting Star
The Unicorn — 17th. century wooden sailing warship in The Adventures of Tintin stories The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure
D.D.SUNRISE - The official academy ship in Q Detective Academy

Film

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 w/ Humphrey Bogart
USS AL-14 — submarine in Hell Below
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 ocean liner owned by Italian Line in Ghost Ship. The ship was based on the ill-fated Italian Line ocean liner, SS Andrea Doria.
Arabella — Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935
Argo - galley Jason and the Argonauts (film),Jason and the Argonauts (TV movie)
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 — Abyss 1989
Black Hawk — The Pirate of the Black Hawk (Il Pirata dello sparviero nero) 1958
Black Pearl — Pirates of the Caribbean
Black Pearl (Wicked Wench) — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Black Swan — The Black Swan 1942
Brandenburg — WW2 German battleship in We Dive at Dawn 1943
SS Britannic — cruise ship in Juggernaut
USS Caine — The Caine Mutiny (Also appears in written version)
HMS Chester — British Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
SS Chiku Shan — ferryboat - Blood Alley (1955)
SS Claridon - ocean liner in The Last Voyage 1960
HMS Compass Rose — 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 Devonshire — British Type 23 frigate sunk in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
HMS Defiant — frigate in HMS Defiant, 1962
Disco Volante — Emilio Largo's motor yacht/hydrofoil Thunderball 1965
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 — Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Endeavour — Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
MS Ergenstrasse — The Sea Chase with John Wayne and Lana Turner
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 — doomed freighter hauling ammunition to England in The Long Voyage Home (1940) starring John Wayne
Gloria N — E la nave va..., Federico Fellini
SS Goliath — ocean liner - Goliath Awaits - TV film 1981
USS Grayfish — Torpedo Run
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 in Carry On Cruising (1961)
USS Haynes (DE-181) — destroyer escort, The Enemy Below
Hydronaut — research submarine Around the World Under the Sea 1965
Immer Essen ("Always eating") — cruise ship, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
HMS Interceptor — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
USS Intrepid — cruise ship on the film Intrepid. The cruise ship sail from San Diego, California to Hawaii and capsizes during the voyage by the tidal wave, cause by atomic bomb.
JDS Isokaze — Aegis (Bôkoku no îgisu) 2005
Jenny- Forrest Gump
Jolly Mon — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
USS Kornblatt — Don't Give Up The Ship, 1959, starred Jerry Lewis
Liparus — Karl Stromberg's submarine swallowing supertanker The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
SS Lorelei - An ocean liner owned by Italian Line appeared in Ghost Ship. The depict of its sinking was based on the ill-fated Italian Line ocean liner, SS Andrea Doria.
HMS Lydia — Captain Horatio Hornblower 1951
Mary Deare — The Wreck of the Mary Deare, w/Gary Cooper & Charlton Heston, 1959
USS Montana — 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 - Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City 1969, Mysterious Island, The Return of Captain Nemo 1978, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003
USS Neptune — Gray Lady Down
USS Nerka — Run Silent, Run Deep
Olive Branch — sailing merchantman, Captain Caution, 1940
Orca — Quint's fishing boat, Jaws, 1975
USS Orlando — Down Periscope
Patna — tramp steamer in Lord Jim 1965
Pequod — Moby Dick 1956, 1978, 1998
SS Poseidon — ocean liner, The Poseidon Adventure
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
Rachel — in search of the Pequod, in Moby-Dick, 1956, 1998
Raven — Prof. Waldo Cunningham's submarine (armed with the "Delta beam" cannon) in The Return of Captain Nemo 1978
The "Reaper"- Dog's ship in Cuttroat Island, 1995
Red October — soviet Typhoon-class sub The Hunt for Red October (also appears in novel)
The Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne, 1948
USS Reluctant (AK-601) World War II cargo ship — Mister Roberts (also appears in stage version)
Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd 1962
USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles 1966
HMS Saltash Castle — Second World War frigate in The Cruel Sea (1953) (HMS Saltash in the novel)
Saracen — yacht, Dead Calm
USS Sawfish — last US submarine in On the Beach (The Sawfish was actually played by the submarine HMS Andrew, though its hull number belonged to the missile submarine USS Nathan Hale.)
Sea Star — tug in Virus, 1999
USS Sea Tiger — Operation Petticoat
USOS Seaview — futuristic sub Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1961
SS Sea Witch — Action in the North Atlantic 1943
IJN Shinaru — Japanese aircraft carrier in Torpedo Run - 1958
Stealth Ship — media mogul Elliot Carver's secret news creator in Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
SS Southern Queen — The Lady Eve
Soviet submarine Спрут ("Sprut, Octopus") — The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!, 1966
St. Georges — British spy ship trawler For Your Eyes Only 1981
USS Starfish — Hellcats of the Navy
USS Stingray (SS-161) — Down Periscope, 1996
HMS Thunder Child - a fictional Torpedo ram that appears in The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
USSTigerfish — Ice Station Zebra, 1968 - (USS Dolphin in novel)
USS Tiger Shark — The Atomic Submarine, Below
HMS Torrin — In Which We Serve, British 1942
Ulysses — Atlantis: The Lost Empire
SS Venture — King Kong, 1933, 2005
HMS Venus - A British frigate that appears in the 1963 film Carry On Jack
HMS Victoria - A fictional ironclad that briefly appears in the made-for-TV film Britannic.
USS Wayne— U.S. ballistic missile submarine in Assault on the Wayne (1970 telefilm featuring Leonard Nimoy); mentioned in the James Bond film Thunderball
We're Here — Captains Courageous, 1937 with Spencer Tracy
Wonkatania — Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (also appears in 2005 adaptation)
The Yellow Submarine — in film of the same name by The Beatles, 1968

Literature

Single works

USS Abraham Lincoln — frigate in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 1868
African Queen - from The African Queen by C. S. Forester
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
Arabella — Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini, 1924
Argo — Jason and the Argonauts
Artemis — Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
HMS Artemis — The Ship, by C. S. Forester, 1943
Astrea — Roman galley ship - Ben-Hur by Genl Lew Wallace, 1880
USS Belinda (APA-22) — Away All Boats by Kenneth M. Dodson, 1954 (also appears in film version)
HMS Bellipotent — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Bird of Dawning — Bird of Dawning novel by John Masefield
USS Caine — The Caine Mutiny (also appears in film version)
SS Claridon — The Last Voyage
HMS Compass Rose — The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951
Covenant — brig, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
USS Delaware — The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester
Demeter — Russian schooner in Dracula by Bram Stoker
USS Dolphin — Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, 1963 (USS Tigerfish in film)
Dulcibella — The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903
Duncan — ocean yacht, In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867
Erebus — Alaska
Evening Star — Alaska
Fin of God — Omnian ship, Small Gods
The Fuwalda - Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914. The ship which took Tarzan's parents to Africa.
Ghost — sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf by Jack London 1904
The Gloria Scott - from the earliest Sherlock Holmes story, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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
HMS Indomitable — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Jeroboam — Moby-Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville
USS Keelling — The Good Shepherd by CS Forester
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
Milka — Jingo (name parodies the Pinta)
USS Nathan James — The Last Ship by William Brinkley
Nellie — Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899
HMS Nemesis — Tai-Pan by James Clavell 1966
Nautilus — Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island
Penguin — The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
Pequod — Moby-Dick,or The Whale, by Herman Melville, 1851
SS Poseidon — ocean liner, The Poseidon Adventure (also appears in filmed versions)
Pushkin — The Last Ship by William Brinkley
Rachel — Moby-Dick,or The Whale, in search of the Pequod
Red October — The Hunt for Red October (also appears in filmed version)
Red Witch — Wake of the Red Witch by Garland Roark
Rights-of-Man — Billy Budd by Herman Melville
USS San Pablo — The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
HMS Saltash — The Cruel Sea (HMS Saltash Castle in the film)
USS Scorpion — On the Beach by Nevil Shute 1957
The Sea Witch — a yacht in The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
USS Shenandoah - Aircraft carrier in The Hero Ship by Hank Searls, 1969
USOS Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon 1961
Splendor Hyaline — The Horse and his boy by C. S. Lewis
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
HMS Ulysses — HMS Ulysses
SS Valparaiso — Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow
Vingilot — The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
USS Viperfish — Spy Sub
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

Series

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 by Patrick O'Brian
- HMS Sophie
- HMS Polychrest
Axis of Time trilogy by John Birmingham
- 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
- JDS Siranui
- KRI Nuku
- KRI Sutanto
- Dessaix
Bolitho series by Alexander Kent
- HMS Gorgon
- HM Cutter Avenger
- HMS Destiny
- HMS Trojan
- HM Sloop Sparrow
- HMS Phalarope
- HMS Undine
- HMS Tempest
- HMS Hyperion
- HMS Euryalus
- HMS Achates
- HMS Argonaute
- Golden Plover
- HMS Unrivalled
- HMS Athena
- HMS Onward
- Nautilus French frigate
HMS Winger from Corvette Command by Nicholas Monsarrat (based on the real HMS Shearwater)
Edward Mainwaring series by Victor Suthren
- HMS Pallas
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber
- Black Treasurer
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
- The Durmstrang ship
Horatio Hornblower series by CS Forester
- HMS Atropos
- HMS Clorinda
- HMS Hotspur
- HMS Justinian
- HMS Lydia
- HMS Nonsuch
- HM Sloop Retribution
- HMS Sutherland
- HMS Witch of Endor
- Mejidieh
- Natividad
Inheritance cycle series by Christopher Paolini
- The Dragon Wing
Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope
- HM Brig Triton
- HMS Calypso
- HMS Jocasta
- HMS Dido
Michael Pacino series by Michael DiMercurio
- Circle of Death - Japanese Navy Destiny III class automated submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Curtain of Flames (SUV-III-987) - Japanese Navy Destiny III class automated submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Cycle of Fear - Japanese Navy Destiny III class automated submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Eternal Spirit (SS-808) - Japanese Navy Destiny II class manned submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Godlike Snowfall - Japanese Navy Destiny II class manned submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Perfect Voice - Japanese Navy Destiny II class manned submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Petersburg - VLCC supertanker in Barracuda Final Bearing
- USS Piranha - US Navy Seawolf class in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Ring of Fire - Japanese Navy Destiny III class automated submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Soaring Cyclone - Japanese Navy Destiny II class manned submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Sphere of Doom - Japanese Navy Destiny III class automated submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Winged Serpent - Japanese Navy Destiny II class manned submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
- Winter Dragon - Japanese Navy Destiny II class manned submarine in Barracuda Final Bearing
Nathaniel Drinkwater series by Richard Woodman
- HM Cutter Kestrel
- HM Brig Hellebore
- HM Bomb-vessel Virago
- HMS Melusine
- HMS Antigone former French frigate
- HMS Patrician
- Vestal paddle-steamer
Para Handy series by Neil Munro
- Vital Spark
Paul Gallant series by Victor Suthren
- Echo corvette
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis
- Dawn Treader
- Splendor Hyaline
Timeline-191 series by Harry Turtledove
- USS Bluefin - US submarine that worked in conjunction with the Spray to trick and sink a Confederate sub.(The Great War: American Front)
- CSS Bonefish
- USS Chapultepec
- USS Dakota - Battleship operating in the Pacific in the Great War, primarily out of Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands. Sam Carsten was assigned to this ship. (The Great War: American Front)
- CSS Fort Sumter - Confederate cruiser. (The Great War: American Front)
- USS Pocahantas, Arkansas
- USS Punishment - US river Monitor operating on the Mississippi.(The Great War: Walk in Hell)
- USS Remembrance
- Ripple - U.S. fishing boat that was sunk by the CSS Swamp Fox and her crew captured. (The Great War: American Front)
- USS Sandwich Islands (referring to Hawaii; although there was certainly no USS Hawaii existing during Turtledove's timeframe, it commemorates the successful battle of 1914 when the U.S. seized the Sandwich Islands from Britain).
- CSS Scallop - Confederate submarine, former assignment of Senior Lieutenant Roger Kimball. (The Great War: American Front)
- Spray - Fishing trawler that was actually working for the US Navy as a target to draw in enemy ships to be sunk by the sub Bluefin. (The Great War: American Front)
- CSS Swamp Fox - Confederate commerce raider. Sunk the Ripple and captured her crew. (The Great War: American Front)
- USS Trenton
- CSS Whelk - Confederate submarine, former assignment of Junior Lieutenant Ralph Briggs. (The Great War: American Front)
Travis McGee series by John D. McDonald
- Busted Flush - houseboat
- John Maynard Keynes
- Thorstein Veblen

Dray Prescot series by Kenneth Bulmer (as Alan Burt Akers)
- HMS Rockingham

Sherlock Holmes
- The Five Orange Pips
  - Lone Star
- The Cardboard Box
  - May Day (Liverpool and London Line)
  - Conqueror (Liverpool and London Line)
- The Adventure of Black Peter
  - Sea Unicorn (whaler)

Radio

HMS Troutbridge - British frigate The Navy Lark

Stage

Flying Dutchman - in the opera The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner and other plays, movies and novels.
HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan
Tarantula — The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan
USS Reluctant (AK-601) — Mister Roberts (also appears in film version)

Television

HMAS Ambush — Patrol Boat
HMAS Hammersley - Sea Patrol (TV series)
Argonaut — Mike Nelson's boat in Sea Hunt, ' 50s series
SS Bernice — a pleasure cruiser in the Doctor Who serial Carnival of Monsters
Black Pig — Captain Pugwash - UK children's TV cartoon series
Cetacean - submarine Man from Atlantis
HMAS Defiance — Patrol Boat
Flying Sub FS-1 — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Golden Lolly - A pirate galleon captained by Captain MacGregor in Series 3 of Henry's Cat
Gone Fission — Mr. Burns Yacht The Simpsons
Greasy Fleece - A pirate brigantine commanded by Rumbaba in Series 3 of Henry's Cat
Haunted Star - General Hospital
Horatio Hornblower
- HMS Grasshopper — frigate (Bracegirdle's command)
- HMS Hotspur — 20-gun sloop
- HMS Justinian — 74-gun ship-of-the-line
- Papillion — French frigate
- Le Rève — French sloop
JAG / NCIS 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 Cayuga (DDG-51)
- 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 Lyons
- USS Tigershark
- USS Vance (DDG-101)
- USS Wake Island
- USS Watertown (SSN-696)
- Vasiliev — Russian destroyer
USS Jebediah — nuclear sub, from the Simpson Tide episode of The Simpsons
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
SS Minnow — Gilligan's Island
SS More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spiderman, And The Incredible Hulk Put Together — Family Guy
The Onedin Line series
- Anne Onedin — a steamship
- Charlotte Rhodes — first ship of James Onedin
- Medusa
- Pampero
- Soren Larsen
PT-73 — McHale's Navy
PT-116 — McHale's Navy
seaQuest DSV 4600 — Deep Submergence Vehicle, seaQuest DSV 1
Seaview Voyage to the bottom of the sea.
USS Sea Spanker — aircraft carrier, from the New Kids on the Blecch episode of The Simpsons
USS Sea Tiger — World War II submarine, Operation Petticoat 1977
SSRN Seaview — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1964-1968
SkyDiver — UFO 1970-1971
Stinger — one-man, high speed sub, in seaQuest DSV
Stingray
Sultana —The Buccaneers 1956
Tiki III — schooner in Adventures in Paradise ' 60s series by James Michener
Thunder — super speedboat in Thunder in Paradise 1994
Thunderbird 4 — Submarine from Supermarionation series Thunderbirds.
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Video games

Dragonet 1 & 2 — submarines in Ace Combat 2
Scinfaxi & Hrimfaxi - Aircraft Carrier Submarines featured in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Gangplank Galleon — Donkey Kong Country series
USS Idaho — nuclear submarine in Silent Steel
Jolly Roger's ship — Super Mario 64
OFS Kestrel — Aircraft Carrier in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
SS Anne - Ship in Pokemon games
The Antaeus, an "adaptive cruiser" in Hostile Waters (game): Antaeus Rising
The Cetus Amicus, an exploratory submarine in Thief II: The Metal Age
USS Liberty — amphibious assault ship in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Luna Lucura — cargo vessel in Jurassic Park: Chaos Island
Maria Doria — Tomb Raider 2
USS Numnutz — nuclear submarine in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The S.S. Zelbess (alternately the S.S. Invincible) in Chrono Cross
The Eastern Spirit - decommissioned Russian whaler rebuilt to serve as supply-ship and secondary laboratory in Cold Fear.
Elisabeth Dane - Small cargo ship Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
The USS Ravenswood - Coastguard ship in Cold Fear.
The GFS Olympus and the GFS Valhalla from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
The Space Pirate Vessel Orpheon from Metroid Prime
The GFS Tyr from Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
The Borealis - abandoned ship in Half-Life 2 Episode 2

OFS Vulture, Buzzard and Barbette- Osean Aircraft Carriers in the game Ace Combat 5 YMS Chuda - Yuk Destroyer in Ace Combat 5 -Erusean Agies "Invincible" Fleet- Cruisers Buluga, Kolga, Fenris and Lazuli Battleship Tanager Carrier Geofon Destroyers Herne, Thiassi and Thaische Submarines Beowulf nu & Pi

Folklore

HMS Friday, a popular urban legend.