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 (often a real ship is used as a stage set, but the real name is not used).
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[edit] Written word
[edit] Single works
- Abraham Lincoln - frigate in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 1868
- Arabella - Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini, 1924
- Argo - Jason and the Argonauts
- Artemis - in Diana Gabaldon's Voyager
- HMS Artemis - The Ship, by C. S. Forester, 1943
- Astrea - roman galley ship - Ben-Hur by Genl Lew Wallace, 1880
- HMS Avenger - Billy Budd
- Bird of Dawning - Bird of Dawning novel by John Masefield
- Black Treasurer in Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
- 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
- Dawn Treader - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
- Vingilot - The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- USS Delaware in CS Forester's The Captain from Connecticut
- Demeter - Russian schooner in Dracula by Bram Stoker
- USS Dolphin - Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, 1963 - (USS Tigerfish in film version)
- 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
- Ghost - sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf by Jack London 1904
- HISPANIOLA (capitalized throughout the story) - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- HMS Indomitable - Billy Budd by Herman Melville
- The Jerobaom - Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville
- USS Keelling in CS Forester's The Good Shepherd
- Marie Celeste in A Conan-Doyle's The Relation of J Habakuk Jephson (REAL ship was MARY Celeste)
- Merry Go (Going Merry) - One Piece
- Milka - Jingo (name parodies the Pinta)
- Nellie - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899
- Penguin - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
- Pequod - Moby Dick,or The Whale, by Herman Melville, 1851
- SS Poseidon - ocean liner, The Poseidon Adventure (also appears in filmed versions)
- 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
- USS San Pablo in Richard McKenna's The Sand Pebbles This vessel did exist: see
- HMS Saltash - The Cruel Sea (HMS Saltash Castle in the film)
- USOS Seaview - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon 1961
- USS Thomas Jefferson in Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson
- HMS Thunder Child - British battleship 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
- S.S. Valparaiso- Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow
- USS Viperfish - Spy Sub
- 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
[edit] Series
- Horatio Hornblower series
- HMS Atropos
- HMS Clorinda
- HMS Hotspur
- HMS Justinian
- HMS Lydia
- HMS Nonsuch
- HMS Sutherland
- HMS Witch of Endor
- Natividad
- Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series
- HMS Sophie
- HMS Polychrest
- Neil Munro's Para Handy series
- Nautilus (Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
- The Onedin Line series
- HMS Anne Onedin, a steamship
- HMS Charlotte Rhodes, first ship of James Onedin
- HMS Medusa
- HMS Pampero
- HMS Soren Larsen
- John D. McDonald's Travis McGee series
- Busted Flush
- John Maynard Keynes
- Thorstein Veblen
- Harry Turtledove's Great War, American Empire, and Settling Accounts series
- USS Remembrance
- CSS Bonefish
- USS Josephus Daniels Also a real ship.
- USS Sandwich Islands
- USS Trenton
- USS Chapultepec
HMS Hawkwing Honor Harrington's first command in Greg Weber's Honorverse series
[edit] Stage
- HMS Pinafore
- Tarantula - Pirates of Penzance
- USS Reluctant (AK-601) - Mister Roberts (also appears in film version)
[edit] Film
- 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
- HMS Albatross - The Sea Hawk with Erroll Flynn, 1940
- Amindra - with shanghaied sailor from the Glencairn, torpedoed and sank in The Long Voyage Home, 1940
- Antonia Graza - derelict cruise ship in Ghost Ship
- SS Andes - cruise ship in Let's Go Native, 1930
- Andrea Gail - Sword fishing boat in The Perfect Storm
- Arabella - Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935
- USS Aspen — Full Fathom Five
- 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
- Black Pearl - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- The Black Swan - The Black Swan 1942
- SS Britannic - cruise ship in Juggernaut
- USS Caine - The Caine Mutiny (Also appears in written version)
- HMS Compass Rose - Second World War corvette in The Cruel Sea, 1953
- USS Copperfin — WWII 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
- USS Echo - sailing ship from The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 1959
- The Elizabeth Dane, from The Fog, was a Clipper ship holding colonists, which was robbed and sunk by four greedy men
- Glencairn - doomed freighter hauling ammunition to England in The Long Voyage Home (1940) starring John Wayne
- Hahnchen Maru - cargo vessel modified to command ship - Contact, 1997
- SS Happy Wanderer - Cruise liner in Carry On Cruising (1961)
- USS Haynes (DE-181) - destroyer escort, The Enemy Below
- 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 Kornblatt - Don't Give Up The Ship, 1959, starred Jerry Lewis
- USS Montana - The Abyss, The Fifth Missile
- Nautilus - Captain Nemo's 1860s submarine - Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- USS Neptune - Gray Lady Down
- USS Nerka - Run Silent, Run Deep
- The Orca - Quint's fishing boat, Jaws, 1975
- USS Orlando - Down Periscope
- SS Poseidon - ocean liner, The Poseidon Adventure
- Rachel - in search of the Pequod, in Moby Dick, 1956, 1998
- 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) WWII cargo ship - Mister Roberts (also appears in stage version)
- HMS Saltash Castle - Second World War frigate in The Cruel Sea (1953) (HMS Saltash in the 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.)
- Sea Star - tug in Virus, 1999
- USS Sea Tiger - Operation Petticoat
- USOS Seaview - futuristic sub Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1961
- SS Southern Queen - The Lady Eve
- Soviet submarine Спрут ("Sprut, Octopus") - The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!, 1966
- USS Starfish - Hellcats of the Navy
- USS Stingray (SS-161) - Down Periscope, 1996
- HMS Surprise - British napoleonic frigate in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
- USS Tigerfish - Ice Station Zebra, 1968 - (USS Dolphin in novel)
- USS Tiger Shark - The Atomic Submarine, Below
- HMS Torrin - In Which We Serve, British 1942
- SS Venture - King Kong, 1933, 2005
- We're Here - Captains Courageous, 1937 with Spencer Tracy
- Wonkatania - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (also appears in 2005 adaptation)
- Flying Dutchman - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
[edit] Television
- SS Bernice - a pleasure cruiser in the Doctor Who serial Carnival of Monsters
- HMAS Defiance - Patrol Boat
- MS Ergenstrasse - "The Sea Chase" with John Wayne and Lana Turner
- JAG
- USS Bennington (CVN-78)
- USS Seahawk
- USS Stanley Dace
- USS Thomas Lyons
- USS Tigershark
- USS Watertown
- 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 from Family Guy
- PT-73 - McHale's Navy
- PT-116 - McHale's Navy
- seaQuest DSV 4600 - Deep Submergence Vehicle, seaQuest DSV
- USS Sea Spanker - aircraft carrier, from the New Kids on the Blecch episode of The Simpsons
- USS Sea Tiger - submarine, Operation Petticoat
- USOS Seaview - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1964-1968
- SkyDiver - UFO
- Stingray
- Tiki III - schooner in Adventures in Paradise ' 60s series by James Michener
- Zuko's Fire Nation ship.
- Gone Fission Mr. Burns Yacht The Simpsons
- Black Pig Captain Pugwash - UK Childrens TV Cartoon Series
[edit] Small Craft
- Argonaut - Mike Nelson's boat in Sea Hunt, ' 50s series
- Flying Sub FS-1 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- Stinger - one-man, high speed sub, in seaQuest DSV
[edit] Anime & Manga
- Tuatha de Danaan - Full Metal Panic!
- Going Merry - One Piece
- Over the Rainbow, a United Nations aircraft carrier - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Archangel- Gundam Seed
SDF-1 (Super Dimensional Fortress 1) from Robotech
[edit] Comics
- Eagle's Shadow - Sir Nicholas Fury's ship in Marvel 1602
- Sea Queen - Lex Luthor's yacht in Superman
[edit] Video games
- Gangplank Galleon - Donkey Kong Country series
- USS Idaho - nuclear submarine in Silent Steel
- Jolly Roger's ship - Super Mario 64
- Luna Lucura - cargo vessel in Jurassic Park: Chaos Island
- Maria Doria - Tomb Raider 2
- USS Numnutz - nuclear submarine in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- USS Liberty - amphibious assault ship in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
