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).
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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
See also
Categories: Lists of fictional things | Lists of ships