List of fictional ships

This list of fictional ships includes all manner of artificial vehicles supported by water, which are either the subject of, or an important element of, a notable work of fiction or a work by a notable author or creator. It is not meant to be a comprehensive list of every fictional ship.

Anime and manga

• Blue 6, Shang 9 – Blue Submarine No. 6 ^[1]
• Going Merry  – One Piece ^{[2] [3]}
• Harekaze – High School Fleet ^[4]
• Illustria – Macross Zero ^[5]
• Musashi – High School Fleet ^[4]
• The School Ship– Girls und Panzer ^[2]
• Yashiromaru  – Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths

Comics

See also: List of boats in The Adventures of Tintin

• Nautilus – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1999 ^[6]

• Unicorn  – The Adventures of Tintin stories The Secret of the Unicorn , 1943, and Red Rackham's Treasure , 1944 ^[7]

Film

• African Queen  – The African Queen , 1951 ^[8]
• USS Alameda (LPD-32) – Godzilla , 2014 ^{[9] [10] [11]}
• Albatross – The Sea Hawk , 1940 ^[12]
• Argo  – galley, Jason and the Argonauts , 1963, 2000 ^[3]
• USS Aspen – Full Fathom Five, 1990
• USS Bedford (DLG-113)  – The Bedford Incident , 1965 ^[13]
• USS Belinda (APA-22) – Away All Boats , 1956 ^[14]
• Black Pearl  – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl , 2003 ^[3]
• USS Caine  – The Caine Mutiny , 1954 ^[15]
• USS Copperfin  – Destination Tokyo , 1943 ^[16]
• H.M.S. Defiant –  H.M.S. Defiant , 1962 ^[17]
• HMS Devonshire  – Tomorrow Never Dies , 1997 ^[18]
• Fuwalda – Tarzan of the Apes, 1918 ^[19]
• USS Haynes – The Enemy Below, 1957
• USS Keeling – Greyhound , 2020 ^[20]
• Mary Deare – The Wreck of the Mary Deare , 1959 ^[21]
• Morning Cloud – Tai-Pan , 1986 ^[22]
• Nautilus  – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), ^[3] Mysterious Island (1961), ^[23] Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969), ^[24] and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) ^[25]
• Red October  – The Hunt for Red October , 1990 ^[3]
• USS San Pablo – The Sand Pebbles , 1966 ^[26]
• USS Sea Tiger – Operation Petticoat, 1959
• USS Stingray  – Down Periscope , 1996 ^[27]
• HMS Surprise – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , 2003 ^[28]
• USS Tampa Bay – Hunter Killer , 2018 ^[29]
• USS Thunderfish – Operation Pacific , 1951 ^[30]
• USS Tigerfish – Ice Station Zebra , 1968 ^[31]
• USS Tigershark – The Atomic Submarine , 1959 ^[32]
• Titanic II– Titanic II, 2010 ^[33]
• Titanic III – Titanic 666 , 2022 ^[34]
• HMS Torrin – In Which We Serve , 1942 ^[35]
• HMS Trumpton – The Navy Lark , 1959 ^[36]
• Tsimtsum– Life of Pi , 2012 ^[37]
• U-571 – U-571, 2000 ^[38]
• USS Ulysses –Crash Dive, 1996 ^[39]
• HMS Venus – Carry On Jack , 1962 ^[40]
• We're Here – Captains Courageous , 1937 ^[41]
• White Witch – Tai-Pan , 1986 ^[22]
• Wonkatania – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , 1971 ^[42]
• Yellow Submarine – Yellow Submarine, 1968 ^[43]

Literature

Folklore

• Courser or the Tuscarora – Alfred Bulltop Stormalong's clipper ship ^[44]
• HMS Friday  – British Royal Navy urban legend ^[45]

Novels

• USS Abraham Lincoln – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne, 1868 ^[46]
• African Queen – The African Queen by C. S. Forester, 1935 ^[8]
• Amazon – Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, 1930 ^[47]
• HMS Amazon – Mr Midshipman Fury by G. S. Beard, 2006 ^[48]
• USS America – America by Stephen Coonts, 2001 ^[49]
• HMS Andromeda– Beneath the Aurora, 1995, and The Shadow of the Eagle, 1997, by Richard Woodman ^[50]
• HMS Antigone – Baltic Mission by Richard Woodman, 1986 ^[50]
• HMS Antigone – The Cruiser by Warren Tute, 1955 ^[51]
• Araby – Captain of the Araby by Howard Pease, 1953 ^[52]
• Ariel – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, 1838 ^[53]
• HMS Argonaute – Colours Aloft! by Alexander Kent,1986 ^[54]
• HMS Artemis – The Ship by C. S. Forester, 1943 ^[55]
• HMS Athena – Royal Yankee by Victor Suthren, 1987 ^[56]
• USS Athena (PC-15) – The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story by Mark Helprin, 2023 ^[57]
• HMS Atropos – Hornblower and the Atropos by C. S. Forester, 1953 ^[58]
• USS Barracuda (SSN-593) – To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986 ^[59]
• HMS Benbecula – Rendezvous-South Atlantic by Douglas Reeman ^[60]
• USS Belinda (APA-22) – Away All Boats by Kenneth M. Dodson, 1954 ^{[61] [14]}
• HMS Bellipotent – Billy Budd by Herman Melville, 1924 ^[62]
• Bloodhound – In the Belly of the Bloodhound by Louis A. Meyer, 2002 ^[63]
• Britannia – In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867–1868 ^[64]
• Busted Flush – The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald ^[65]
• USS Caine – The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 1951 ^[15]
• HMS Calypso – The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, 1941 ^[66]
• HMS Calypso – Ramage's Mutiny by Dudley Pope, 1977 ^[67]
• HMS Carousel– We Saw The Sea by John Winton ^[68]
• Carpco Valparaiso – Towing Jehova by James Morrow, 1994 ^[69]
• HMS Clorinda – Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester, 1957 ^[58]
• Cotton Blossom – Show Boat by Edna Ferber, 1926 ^[70]
• USS Columbia – The Intruders by Stephen Coonts, 1994 ^[71]
• HMS Compass Rose – The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951 ^[72]
• Covenant – Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886 ^[23]
• HMS Diane – The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian, 1989 ^[73]
• Dawn Treader – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis ^[74]
• Dazzler – The Cruise of the Dazzler by Jack London, 1902 ^[75]
• USS Delaware – The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, 1941 ^[66]
• Demeter – Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897 ^[76]
• HMS Destiny – Stand into Danger by Alexander Kent, 1980 ^[77]
• HMS Diana – Golden Galleon by Victor Suthren, 1989 ^[78]
• HMS Dido – Ramage and the Dido by Dudley Pope, 1989 ^[79]
• HMS Dolphin – Bloody Jack by Louis A. Meyer, 2002 ^[80]
• USS Dolphin – Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, 1963 ^[81]
• USS Dragonfish – Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler, 1976 ^[82]
• USS Dragonfish – To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986 ^[83]
• Dulcibella – The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903 ^[84]
• Duncan – In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867 ^[85]
• The Durmstrang ship – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, 2000 ^[3]
• USS Eel – Run Silent, Run Deep, 1955, and Dust on the Sea, 1972, by Edward L. Beach Jr. ^[86]
• Erasmus – Shōgun by James A. Michener, 1975 ^[87]
• Erebus – Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988 ^[88]
• Flying Dutch – Flying Dutch by Tom Holt, 1991 ^[74]
• Flying Dutchman – The Death Ship by William Clark Russell, 1888 ^[74]
• Flying Dutchman – The Crew of the Flying Dutchman by Henry A. Hering, 1896 ^[74]
• Flying Dutchman – A Primer of Imaginary Geography by Brander Matthews, 1894 ^[74]
• Flying Dutchman – Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques, 2001 ^[74]
• Ghost – The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904 ^[89]
• The Glen Carrig – The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson, 1907 ^[90]
• Goblin – We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome (1937) ^[91]
• HMS Gorgon – Richard Bolitho, Midshipman, 1978; ^[92] Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger, 1978, ^[93] by Alexander Kent
• HM Hellebore – A Brig of War by Richard Woodman, 1983 ^[50]
• Hispaniola – Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883 ^[94]
• HMS Hotspur – Hornblower and the Hotspur by C. S. Forester, 1962 ^[58]
• The Ibis Schooner – Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, 2008 ^[95]
• HMS Indomitable – For My Country's Freedom by Alexander Kent, 1995 ^[96]
• USS Keeling – The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, 1955 ^[20]
• HM Kestrel – A Kings Cutter by Richard Woodman, 1982 ^[50]
• La Qualla – Jungle Cruise by Brooke Vitale (2021) ^[95]
• HMS Leviathan –HMS Leviathan by John Winton, 1967 ^[97]
• USS Levant – The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale, 1863 ^[98]
• Life Boat – Life of Pi by Yann Martel, 2001 ^[95]
• Little Toot– Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky, 1939
• Lorelei Leeto – The Wake of the Lorelei Lee by Louis A. Meyer, 2002 ^[99]
• HMS Lydia – The Happy Return by C. S. Forester, 1937 ^[58]
• Mary Deare – The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956 ^[100]
• Mongolia – Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873 ^[101]
• USS Nathan James (DDG-80) –The Last Ship by William Brinkley, 1988 ^[102]
• Nautilus  – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) ^[3] and The Mysterious Island (1874) ^[23] by Jules Verne
• Nellie – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899 ^[103]
• HMS Nonsuch – The Commodore, 1945, and Lord Hornblower , 1946, by C. S. Forester ^[58]
• Not for Hire – The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José Farmer, 1971 ^[104]
• Oregon – Oregon Files by Clive Cussler ^[105]

• Ossa – Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1900 ^[106]
• HMS Pallas – Captain Monsoon by Victor Suthren, 1993 ^[107]
• HMS Pandora –One of Our Warships by John Winton, 1975 ^[108]
• Patna – Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1900 ^[106]
• HMS Patrician – In Distant Waters, 1988; A Private Revenge, 1989; and The Flying Squadron, 1992, by Richard Woodman ^{[109] [50]}
• Pequod – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 ^[3]
• HMS Phalarope – To Glory We Steer by Alexander Kent, 1968 ^[110]
• Pharaon – The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844 ^[111]
• SS Poseidon – The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico, 1969 ^[3]
• Pushkin –The Last Ship by William Brinkley, 1988 ^[102]
• USS Pyramus – The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman, 1967 ^[112]
• Queequeg – The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket, 2004 ^[113]
• Red October – The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 1984 ^{[114] [3]}
• The Red Rover – The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper, 1827 ^[115]
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) – Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen, 1946 ^[116]
• HMS Restless– Yashimoto's Last Dive by Antony Trew, 1986 ^[117]
• USS San Pablo – The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna, 1962 ^[26]
• Santa Ybel – Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947 ^[118]
• Scuffy– Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton, 1946 ^[119]
• The Sea Witch – The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956 ^[120]
• HMS Seahorse – Down The Hatch by John Winton, 1962 ^[121]
• USS Shiloh – Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts, 1986 ^[122]
• Slewfoot – Torpedo Run by Robb White, 1962 ^[123]
• Slice of Life – Dexter by Jeff Lindsay ^[95]
• HMS Sutherland – A Ship of the Line , 1938 by C. S. Forester ^[58]
• Swallow– Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, 1930 ^[47]
• HMS Temeraire –The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971 ^[124]

• HMS Tempest – Passage To Mutiny by Alexander Kent, 1976 ^[125]
• 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 ^[126]
• HM Triton – Ramage and the Freebooters by Dudley Pope, 1969 ^[127]
• Tsimtsum – Life of Pi , 2001 ^[37]
• U-996 – An Operational Necessity by Gwyn Griffin, 1967 ^[128]
• HMS Ulysses – HMS Ulysses , by Alistair MacLean, 1955 ^[129]
• HMS Undine – Command a King's Ship by Alexander Kent, 1973 ^[130]
• HM Virago – The Bomb Vessel by Richard Woodman, 1984 ^{[131] [50]}
• Vital Spark – The Collected Stories from The Vital Spark by Neil Munro, 1906
• The Walrus – Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883 ^[132]
• USS Walrus – Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach Jr., 1955 ^[133]
• Water-Witch – The Water-Witch by James Fenimore Cooper, 1830 ^[115]
• We're Here – Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 1897 ^[134]
• White Witch – Tai-Pan by James Clavell, 1966 ^[22]
• HMS Witch of Endor – Flying Colours, 1938 by C. S. Forester ^[58]
• Wonderful Fanny – Snuff by Terry Pratchett ^[135]

Poetry

• Alice May – "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service, 1907 ^[136]
• Argo  – "Argonautica" by Apollonius of Rhodes, 3rd century BCE
• Prydwen – "Preiddeu Annwfn", 14th century

Short stories

• Marie Celeste – "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement " by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1884 ^[137]

Radio

• HMS Goliath  – Deep Trouble, 2005–2007 ^[138]
• The Scarlet Queen – Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , 1947–1948 ^[139]
• HMS Troutbridge  – The Navy Lark, 1959–1976 ^{[140] [36]}

Stage

• SS American – Anything Goes by Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse, 1934 ^[141]
• Coronia – Sail Away by Noël Coward, 1961 ^[142]
• Cotton Blossom – Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1927 ^[143]
• Flying Dutchman  – Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner, 1843 ^[144]
• SS Hendrik Hudson – Over Night by Philip Bartholomae, 1911 ^[145]
• Hibernia – The Defender by Charles Dennée and Allen Lowe, 1902 ^[146]
• HMS Pinafore – H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan, 1878 ^[147]
• The Pirate Queen– The Pirate Queen by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Richard Maltby Jr., and John Dempsey; 2006 ^[148]
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) – Mister Roberts by Joshua Logan and Thomas Heggen, 1948 ^[116]
• SS Majestania– The Beauty Prize by Jerome Kern, George Grossmith, and P. G. Wodehouse, 1923 ^[149]
• Mauretania– The Greyhound by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner, 1909 ^[150]
• Zong– The Meaning of Zong by Giles Terera, 2022 ^[151]

Television

• HMAS Ambush – Patrol Boat, 1979–1984 ^{[152] [153]}
• Argonaut – Sea Hunt , 1958–1961 ^{[154] [155]}
• USS Appleby – Ensign O'Toole , 1962–1963 ^[156]
• Bárbara de Braganza – High Seas ^[157]
• Black Pig – Captain Pugwash, 1957–1966 ^[23]
• Charlotte Rhodes – The Onedin Line, 1971–1980 ^[158]
• USS Colorado (SSBN-753) – Last Resort, 2012–2013 ^[159]
• HMAS Defiance – Patrol Boat, 1979–1984 ^[153]
• HMAS Hammersley  – Sea Patrol, 2007–2011 ^[160]
• HMS Hero (F42) – Warship, 1973–1978 ^[161]
• Kerberos – 1899 ^[162]
• USS Kiwi – The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 1965–1966 ^[163]
• S. S. Minnow  – Gilligan's Island, 1964–1967; ^[164] Rescue from Gilligan's Island, 1978 ^[165]
• Nautilus – The Return of Captain Nemo , 1978, ^[166] and Nautilus, 2024 ^[167]
• USS Nathan James (DDG-151)  – The Last Ship, 2014– 2018 ^{[168] [169]}
• Persephone – The Beachcombers, 1972–1990 ^[170]
• Prometheus – 1899 ^[162]
• PT-73  – McHale's Navy, 1962–1966 ^[171]
• USS Reluctant (AK-601) – Mister Roberts, 1965–1966 ^[172]
• St. Vitus Dance – Miami Vice, 1984–1990 ^[173]
• seaQuest DSV 4600 – seaQuest DSV, 1993–1996 ^[174]
• USS Sea Tiger – Operation Petticoat, 1977–1979 ^[175]
• USOS Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1964–1968 ^[176]
• USS Shackleton (DDG-162) – The Last Ship , 2016 ^[177]
• Soren Larsen – The Onedin Line ^[178]
• Stingray – Stingray , 1964–1965 ^[179]
• Terrorfish – Stingray , 1964–1965 ^[179]
• Theodore – Theodore Tugboat, 1993–2001 ^[180]
• Thunderbird 4  – Thunderbirds , 1964 ^[3]
• Tiki III – Adventures in Paradise, 1959–1962 ^[181]
• SS Tipton – The Suite Life on Deck ^[182]
• Toot – Toot the Tiny Tugboat, 2014–2015 ^[183]
• Vast Explorer – Adventure Inc. , 2002–2003 ^[184]
• USS Wayne – Assault on the Wayne , 1971 ^[185]
• X-2 – hydrofoil in The Venture Bros. ^[186]
• Zuko's Fire Nation ship – Avatar: The Last Airbender ^[187]

Video games

• Jackdaw – Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag ^[3]
• King of Red Lions – The Legend of Zelda ^[3]
• The Maw – Little Nightmares ^[25]
• Outer Gear – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ^[3]

See also

• Flying submarine
• Submarine films
• List of fictional spacecraft
• List of underwater science fiction works

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