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
- HMS Ulysses - HMS Ulysses
Series
- Horatio Hornblower series
- Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series
- 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)
- USS Alabama (SSBN-731) - Nuclear submarine featured in the movie Crimson Tide - the story is fictional, but the submarine is not
- 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 Copperfin — Destination Tokyo
- HMS Dauntless - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- HMS Defiant - frigate in HMS Defiant, a 1962 movie
- USS Haynes (DE-181) - destroyer escort, The Enemy Below
- 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 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
- The Black Pearl - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- The Red Witch - Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne
- Russian submarine CRPYT - The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!
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 - 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
- PT-116 - McHale's Navy