List of fictional ships

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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 (oftentimes a real ship is used as a stage set, but the real name is not used).

1 Written word
- 1.1 Single works
- 1.2 Series
2 Stage
3 Film
4 Television
5 See also

Written word

Single works

The Black Treasurer in Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
USS Caine – The Caine Mutiny (also appears in film version)
USS Warren Harding in Robert Clark Young's naval satire One of the Guys
The Dawn Treader – The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
USS Delaware in CS Forester's The Captain from Connecticut
The Erebus – Alaska
The Evening Star – Alaska
USS Keelling in CS Forester's The Good Shepherd
The Milka – Jingo (name parodies the Pinta)
The Nellie – Heart of Darkness
Pequod Moby Dick
Red October – The Hunt for Red October (also appears in filmed version)
USS San Pueblo in Richard McKenna's The Sand Pebbles
SS Titan – Futility
HMS Avenger – Billy Budd
HMS Compass Rose – The Cruel Sea
HMS Thunderchild – The War of the Worlds
USS Viperfish – Spy Sub
Dulcibella – The Riddle of the Sands
We're Here – Captains Courageous
The Penguin – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The Argo – Jason and the Argonauts
USS Thomas Jefferson (Nimitz Class
The Red Witch – Wake of the Red Witch by Garland Roark
The S.S. Valparaiso- Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow
The HISPANIOLA (capitalized throughout the story) – Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Series

Horatio Hornblower series
- HMS Atropos
- HMS Clorinda
- HMS Hotspur
- HMS Lydia
- HMS Nonsuch
- HMS Sutherland
- Natividad
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series
- HMS Sophie
- HMS Polychrest
- HMS Surprise
Neil Munro's Para Handy series
- The Vital Spark
Nautilus (Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

Stage

USS AK 601 – Mister Roberts (Also appears in the filmed version)
HMS Pinafore

Film

USS AK 601 – Mister Roberts (Also appears in the stage version)
Alabama (SSBN-731) – Nuclear submarine featured in the movie Crimson Tide
SS Andes – cruise ship in Let's Go Native, 1930 movie
USS Bedford (DLG-113) – The Bedford Incident
The Belafonte – oceanographic research vessel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
USS Caine – The Caine Mutiny (Also appears in written version)
USS Haynes (DE-181) – The Enemy Below
USS Kornblatt – Don't Give Up The Ship, 1959, starred Jerry Lewis
USS Neptune – Gray Lady Down
USS Nerka – Run Silent, Run Deep
The Orca – Quint's fishing boat, Jaws
SS Poseidon – cruise ship, The Poseidon Adventure
Red October – The Hunt for Red October (also appears in novel)
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.)
USS Sea Tiger – Operation Petticoat
USS Starfish – Hellcats of the Navy
USS Stingray (SS-161) – Down Periscope
USS Tiger Shark – The Atomic Submarine, Below
USOS Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
|The African Queen – The African Queen
Unnamed gunboat in Apocalypse Now
The Black Pearl – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
HMS Interceptor – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
HMS Dauntless – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Red Witch – Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne

Television

HMAS Defiance – Patrol Boat
USOS Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
USS Sea Tiger – submarine, Operation Petticoat
USS Sea Spanker – aircraft carrier, from the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of The Simpsons
USS Jebediah|USS Jebediah – nuclear sub, from the "Simpson Tide" episode of The Simpsons
SS Lady Anne – cruise ship, "Passage on the Lady Anne" episode of The Twilight Zone
SS Minnow – Gilligan's Island
JAG
- USS Bennington (CVN-78)
- USS Seahawk
- USS Stanley Dace
- USS Thomas Lyons
- USS Tigershark
- USS Watertown
PT-73 – McHale's Navy