List of fictional ships

This list of fictional ships lists all manner of artificial vehicles supported by water, which are either the subject of, or an important element of, a notable work of fiction.

Anime and manga

 * Advenna Avis – Baccano!
 * Albedo – Full Ahead! Coco
 * Alexandria – aircraft carrier in Genocyber
 * SS Anne – ocean liner in Pokémon
 * Arcadia – Harlock's ship from the Japanese series Harlock Saga
 * Argonaut – Heroic Age
 * Asuka II (CVN-99) – United Nations (formerly with Japan Maritime Self Defense Force) aircraft carrier from Macross Zero
 * Bebop – Cowboy Bebop
 * Blue – Blue Drop
 * Blue 6, Shang 9 – Blue Submarine No. 6
 * RMS Campania – ocean liner in Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic (In anime, the ship is based on the real-life ocean liners the RMS Titanic and the RMS Majestic (1914), but in the manga, the ship takes inspiration from an RMS Titanic and the RMS Lusitania.)
 * Clobird – Full Ahead! Coco
 * SS Cussler (or RMS Cussler) (based on the RMS Titanic) – ocean liner in Pokémon: XY
 * Darkness Gale – Full Ahead! Coco
 * Decolore – cruise ship in Pokémon: Best Wishes!
 * Diamond Serpent – Full Ahead! Coco
 * HMS Eagle - Invincible-class aircraft carrier in Hellsing
 * Ghost Ship – Blue Submarine No. 6
 * Going Merry – One Piece
 * Gran Tesoro – One Piece Film: Gold
 * Harekaze (Y-467) – Kagerō-class destroyer, Yokosuka girls marines high school, High School Fleet
 * JDS Hotaka (DDG-170) – Atago-class destroyer in Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea
 * I-401 – Arpeggio of Blue Steel
 * Illustria – United Nations aircraft carrier from Macross Zero
 * JDF Ishin – Theta-class submersible destroyer (actually a frigate) from Innocent Venus
 * Mermaid – ocean liner in Cat's Eye
 * JDS Mirai (DDG-182) – Zipang
 * Moby Dick – One Piece
 * Nakatomi – oil tanker from Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire
 * SS Naked Sun – aircraft carrier from Kill la Kill
 * Oro Jackson – One Piece
 * Over the Rainbow (a renamed USS Harry S. Truman) – Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Pascal Magi – Tactical Roar
 * Penguin Manju Go – Icebreaker in A Place Further than the Universe
 * Queen Berry (Inspiration from RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Mauretania II) – ocean liner in Gosick
 * Queen Sallybeth (Inspiration from RMS Queen Elizabeth 2) – ocean liner in Detective Conan
 * Red Skele – Full Ahead! Coco
 * Seagallop – ferry in Pokémon Adventures
 * SS Sinnoh – Pokémon Adventures
 * SS Spiral – Pokémon Adventures
 * St. Aphrodite – Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths
 * Submarine Explorer 1 – Pokémon Generations and Pokémon Adventures
 * Super 99 – Submarine Super 99
 * Sweet Madonna – Full Ahead! Coco
 * Tempest Junior – Thundersub
 * Thousand Sunny – One Piece
 * Thriller Bark – One Piece
 * SS Tidal – ferry in Pokémon Adventures
 * TK Tanker – oil tanker in Cat's Eye
 * Tuatha de Danaan – submarine in Full Metal Panic!
 * Princess Lorelei (based on the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2) – cruise ship in fSpy x Family
 * White Castle – large yacht in Biohazard: Heavenly Island
 * Yashiromaru – Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths

Comics

 * Aurora – trawler in The Adventures of Tintin story The Shooting Star
 * The Black Freighter – metafictional pirate ship that is referenced throughout the Watchmen comic series
 * Borneo Prince – 19th-century trading vessel converted for use as a gunboat in World War II in Commando Comics
 * Cithara – alleged source of a distress signal in The Adventures of Tintin story The Shooting Star
 * HMS Cutlass – name given to four ships of the Royal Navy – the first a battleship present at the Battle of the Nile; the second an ironclad sunk in World War I; the third a World War II destroyer, and the most recent ship a Cold War-era destroyer. All four ships appear in the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage.
 * Eagle's Shadow – Sir Nicholas Fury's ship in Marvel 1602
 * Gotha – Kriegsmarine commerce raider, from the Commando Comics story Greedy For Glory
 * Grossadler – Kriegsmarine battle cruiser, from the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage
 * Hawksub – Blackhawk
 * Karaboudjan – Armenian cargo ship in The Adventures of Tintin story The Crab with the Golden Claws
 * SS Ramona – tramp steamer in The Adventures of Tintin story The Red Sea Sharks
 * Salty Sea Mare – ship owned by Captain Hoofbeard from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic series story Friendship Ahoy!
 * Sea Queen/The Gertrude – Lex Luthor's yacht in Superman Returns
 * Sirius – expedition ship in The Adventures of Tintin stories The Shooting Star and Red Rackham's Treasure
 * Unicorn – 17th-century three-masted armed Royal Navy vessel in The Adventures of Tintin stories The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure
 * HMS Viper – British destroyer, from the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage
 * Vulkan – Kriegsmarine cruiser, from the Commando Comics story Flak Fever
 * Wolfgang – Kriegsmarine pocket battleship, from the Commando Comics story O For Orange

Film

 * 903 – Iranian Kilo-class submarine in Steel Sharks, 1996
 * USS 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
 * Aeolus – deserted 1930s cruise ship in Triangle, 2009
 * African Queen – The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, 1951
 * USS Alameda (LPD-32) – landing ship, Godzilla, 2014
 * Albatross – The Sea Hawk with Errol Flynn, 1940
 * Alexandre Dumas – The Lover, 1992
 * Altair – The Ghost Ship with Richard Dix, 1943
 * Amindra – with shanghaied sailor from the Glencairn, torpedoed and sank in The Long Voyage Home, 1940
 * SS Andes – cruise ship in Let's Go Native, 1930
 * Angelina – Romancing the Stone, 1984
 * SS Anne B – Jurassic Park, 1993
 * MS Antonia Graza (based on the SS Andrea Doria) – derelict Italian luxury ocean liner in Ghost Ship, 2002
 * Aquanaut 3 – experimental submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
 * Arabella – Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935
 * Argo – galley, Jason and the Argonauts, 1963, 2000
 * USS Argus Hospital ship, World War Z, 2013
 * Arcadia – cargo ship, Resident Evil, 2002
 * SS Arcadia – cargo ship, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, 2018
 * Argonautica (based on the Grand Princess) – cruise ship, Deep Rising, 1998
 * USS Aspen – Full Fathom Five, 1990
 * SS Atlantic (based on the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and the fictional ship's name has the sequel to the real-life ship the RMS Atlantic, and the ship on the movie is an inspiration for the RMS Titanic and the RMS Berengaria) – ocean liner, Atlantic, 1929
 * RMS Augusta (Possibly based on the RMS Campania and RMS Empress of Ireland, But with interiors based on the RMS Lusitania, RMS Mauretania (1906) and HMS Hawke (1891)) – ocean liner, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2016
 * HMS Avenger – Billy Budd, 1962
 * HMS Ballantrae – British Royal Navy Town-class destroyer in Gift Horse, 1952
 * Barracuda – Up Periscope, 1959
 * Batavia Queen – steamship, Krakatoa, East of Java, 1969
 * HMS Bedford – British Royal Navy Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
 * USS Bedford (DLG-113) – The Bedford Incident, 1965 (also in book version)
 * Belafonte – oceanographic research vessel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004
 * USS Belinda (APA-22) – Away All Boats, 1956 (also appears in original novel)
 * Benthic Explorer – offshore support ship, The Abyss, 1989
 * HMS Berkeley – in Up the Creek, 1958
 * Black Hawk – The Pirate of the Black Hawk (Il Pirata dello sparviero nero) 1958
 * Black Pearl – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003
 * Black Swan – The Black Swan, 1942
 * KMS Brandenburg – German battleship in We Dive at Dawn, 1943
 * SS Britannic (based on the TS Hamburg) – cruise ship in Juggernaut, 1974
 * Caca de Toro – boat in After the Storm, 2001
 * USS Caine – The Caine Mutiny, 1954 (also appears in written version)
 * Caledonia II – Some Like It Hot, 1959
 * Cassidy – destroyer in In Harm's Way, 1965
 * USS Charleston (SSN-704) – On the Beach, 2000
 * Charlotte – National Treasure, 2004
 * Chelsea – tugboat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008
 * HMS Chester – British Royal Navy Type 23 frigate in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
 * SS Chiku Shan – ferryboat, Blood Alley, 1955
 * SS Claridon (based on the SS Île-de-France) – ocean liner in The Last Voyage, 1960
 * SS Colossal (based on the SS Normandie) – ocean liner, The Big Broadcast of 1938, 1938
 * HMS Compass Rose – British Royal Navy Flower-class corvette in The Cruel Sea, 1953
 * USS Copperfin – World War II sub Destination Tokyo with Cary Grant, 1943
 * Corsair – in Crash Dive, 1943
 * SS Crescent Star (based on the ships, SS United States, SS American Star and SS Leonardo da Vinci) – cruise ship that sinks in Seven Waves Away, 1957
 * USS Dallas – submarine in The Hunt for Red October, 1990
 * Daniel Webster – trawler in Sealed Cargo, 1951
 * USS Davies (SSN-???) – Los Angeles-class SSN in Crash Dive, 1996
 * Deep Quest – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
 * HMS Defiant – frigate in H.M.S. Defiant, 1962
 * Denali – Philadelphia-based commercial supertanker in Down Periscope, 1996
 * HMS Devonshire – British Royal Navy Type 23 frigate sunk in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
 * HMS Dinosaur – British Royal Navy battleship in Things to Come, 1936
 * Disco Volante – motor yacht/hydrofoil in Thunderball, 1965
 * Dot Calm –private yacht in Johnny English Strikes Again, 2018
 * USS Dragonfish – U.S. submarine in Battle of the Coral Sea, 1959
 * Dulcibella – The Riddle of the Sands, 1979
 * USS Dwight D. Flysenhower – Planes, 2013
 * USS Echo – sailing ship from The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 1959
 * Edinburgh Trader – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006
 * Eindhoven Lion – oil tanker, Speed 2: Cruise Control, 1997
 * Elizabeth Dane – The Fog, 1980
 * Empress – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007
 * HMS Endeavour – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007
 * MS Ergenstrasse – The Sea Chase (1955) with John Wayne and Lana Turner, and briefly in Patriot Games with Harrison Ford, 1992
 * SS Virginian (the ship are the inspired blueprints of the RMS Lusitania and her sister ships the RMS Mauritania and RMS Aquitania) – ocean liner, The Legend of 1900, 1998
 * SS Essess – Hot Shots!, 1991
 * Flying Dutchman – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
 * The Flying Wasp – Caddyshack, 1980
 * MS Forest Swan – Panamanian cargo ship, Die Hard with a Vengeance, 1995
 * SS Mayflower (based on the SS Rex and SS Conte di Savoia) – Luxury Liner, 1948
 * Genesis – cruise ship in 2012, 2009
 * Genoa Maru – Across the Pacific, 1942 (seen only briefly)
 * SS Germania (based on the SS L'Atlantique) – ocean liner in Luxury Liner, 1933
 * Geronimo – America's Cup racing yacht, Wind, 1992
 * Gerrymander – full-rigged sailing ship in Fair Wind to Java, 1953
 * Ghost – sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf, 1941
 * SS Gigantic – Streamlined Ocean Liner, The Big Broadcast of 1938, 1938
 * Glencairn – freighter, The Long Voyage Home, 1940
 * Gloria N – And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va), Federico Fellini, 1983
 * RMS Goliath (based on the RMS Queen Mary, and then RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic) – ocean liner, Goliath Awaits, 1981 TV film
 * Grayfish – Torpedo Run, 1958
 * Hahnchen Maru – cargo vessel modified to command ship, Contact, 1997
 * Hai Peng – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007
 * SS Happy Wanderer (based on the SS Oronsay (1950)) – cruise liner, Carry On Cruising, 1962
 * Hav Vind – Norwegian oil tanker, Cloverfield, 2008
 * USS Haynes (DE-181) – destroyer escort, The Enemy Below, 1957
 * The Henrietta – paddle steamer, Around the World in 80 Days, 1956
 * Immer Essen ("Always Eating") – cruise ship, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, 1982
 * The Inferno – The Goonies, 1985
 * HMS Interceptor – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003
 * USS Intrepid – cruise ship in the film Intrepid, 2000
 * Jenny – Forrest Gump, 1994
 * Jenny – tugboat in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, 1979
 * Jolly Roger – in Hook, 1991
 * Kin Lung – tramp steamer in China Sea, 1935
 * USS Kornblatt – destroyer in Don't Give Up the Ship, 1959
 * La Chamade – boat in After the Storm, 2001
 * USS Lansing (SSN-795) – Los Angeles-class SSN (depicted as an SSBN) in Danger Beneath the Sea, 2001
 * USS Lawton – Kong: Skull Island, 2017
 * CPMS Leegood – Canadian cargo ship, San Andreas, 2015
 * Liparus – Karl Stromberg's submarine swallowing supertanker in The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977
 * Love Nest – whaling ship in the 1923 Buster Keaton film The Love Nest, 1923
 * HMS Lydia – Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951
 * Mary Deare – The Wreck of the Mary Deare, starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, 1959
 * SS Minnow Johnson – civilian yacht, Rush Hour 2, 2001
 * Misery – cargo ship, The Pebble and the Penguin, 1995
 * USS Montana – The Abyss, 1989
 * USS Montana – The Fifth Missile, 1986
 * Morning Star – Cutthroat Island, 1995
 * Nathan Ross – whaling ship, All the Brothers Were Valiant, 1953
 * Nautilus – Captain Nemo's 1860s submarine, appears in several films including: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Mysterious Island (1961), Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969), The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
 * Neptune – in Gray Lady Down, 1978
 * HMS Nereid – Royal Navy submarine, Virus, 1980
 * Nerka – submarine in Run Silent, Run Deep, 1958
 * Ning-Po – freighter owned by SPECTRE in You Only Live Twice, 1967
 * USS Oakland (SSN-798) – Los Angeles-class SSN in Steel Sharks, 1996
 * Odessa – Ukrainian cargo ship, The Day After Tomorrow, 2004
 * Orca – Quint's fishing boat in Jaws, 1975
 * Patna – tramp steamer in Lord Jim, 1965
 * Pequod – whaleship, Moby Dick, 1956, 1978, 1998
 * USS Pequod – American submarine, 2010: Moby Dick, 2010
 * Poseidon – ocean liner/cruise ship, The Poseidon Adventure (1972) (based on the RMS Queen Mary), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), The Poseidon Adventure (2005) (based on the MS Grandeur of the Seas) Poseidon (2006) (inspired on the RMS Queen Mary 2)
 * USS Poseidon – USS Poseidon: Phantom Below, 2005
 * The Precious Gem – Fool's Gold, 2008
 * Pride of Chicago – yacht in After the Storm, 2001
 * SS Princess Irene (a ship that collides with an iceberg and sinks with a horrendous loss of life, with the death toll possibly greater than the sinking of the RMS Titanic) – History Is Made at Night, 1937
 * Proteus – nuclear mini submarine from Fantastic Voyage, 1966
 * Q Boat – Q's fishing boat, The World Is Not Enough, 1999
 * Queen Anne's Revenge – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011
 * Queen Conch – To Have and Have Not, 1944
 * Rachel – Moby Dick, 1956, 1998
 * Reaper – Dog's ship in Cutthroat Island, 1995
 * Red Dragon – civilian yacht, Rush Hour 2, 2001
 * Red October – The Hunt for Red October film with Sean Connery, 1990 (also in the 1984 Tom Clancy novel)
 * Red Witch – Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne, 1948
 * Regent Queen – cruise ship in Chupacabra: Dark Seas, 2005
 * USS Reluctant (AK-601) – World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (1955) and the 1984 television film (also appears in novel, play and TV series versions)
 * Rights-of-Man – Billy Budd, 1962
 * Rob Roy – commercial freighter, Windbag the Sailor, 1936
 * SS Roland (based on a Dutch ship SS Dwinsk, and the story of the film is inspired by the April 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic) – ocean liner, Atlantis, 1913
 * HMS Saltash Castle – British Royal Navy frigate in The Cruel Sea, 1953
 * Samskip Innovator – Paddington, 2014
 * USS San Pablo – The Sand Pebbles, 1966
 * Santana – Key Largo, 1948 (also name of Bogart's personal sailing yacht)
 * Sancta Helena a Frigate in Underworld: Evolution, 2006
 * Saracen – yacht, Dead Calm, 1989
 * USS Saratoga (CVN-88) – aircraft carrier, Godzilla, 2014
 * USS Sawfish – On the Beach, 1959
 * USS Scotia – submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007
 * Sea Cliff – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
 * Sea Queen – sport-fishing boat in Breaking Point, 1950
 * Sea Star – tug in Virus, 1999
 * HMS Sea Tiger – British Royal Navy submarine, We Dive at Dawn, 1943
 * USS Sea Tiger – World War II submarine, Operation Petticoat, 1959 (also the 1977 TV series)
 * SS Sea Witch – Action in the North Atlantic, 1943
 * SSNR Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with Walter Pidgeon, 1961
 * HMS Shag at Sea – yacht, Austin Powers in Goldmember, 2002
 * HMS Sherwood – British Royal Navy cruiser, Carry on Admiral, 1957
 * IJN Shinaru – Japanese aircraft carrier, Torpedo Run, 1958
 * Silent Mary – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017
 * Skyline (天涯号) – Chinese cruise ship, The Precipice Game, 2016
 * HMS Solent – British Royal Navy destroyer, Sink the Bismarck!, 1960
 * Stealth Ship – media mogul Elliot Carver's secret news creator in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997 (based on the real-life Sea Shadow (IX-529)
 * SS Southern Queen – Setting for the first half of the Preston Sturges directed 1941 comedy The Lady Eve starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck. It was also the name of the fictional cruise ship in the 1948 comedy Romance on the High Seas starring Doris Day.
 * St. Georges – British spy ship trawler For Your Eyes Only, 1981
 * USS Starfish – Hellcats of the Navy, 1957
 * Starfish – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
 * USS Stingray – Balao-class submarine, Down Periscope, 1996 (no relation to the Salmon-class USS Stingray (SS-186))
 * HMS Surprise – British Royal Navy frigate, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003
 * HMS Sutherland – 74-gun ship of the line, Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951
 * Tasha – ocean liner, Anastasia, 1997
 * USS Thunderfish – Operation Pacific with John Wayne, 1951
 * USS Tigerfish (SSN 509) – United States nuclear submarine from Ice Station Zebra, 1968
 * USS Tigershark – The Atomic Submarine, 1959
 * SS Titanic II – fictional replica of the real-life RMS Titanic, 2010
 * Titanic III – based on the replica of the RMS Titanic, Titanic 666, 2022
 * HMS Torrin – In Which We Serve, 1942
 * HMS Trumpton – British Royal Navy minesweeper in The Navy Lark, 1959
 * Tsimtsum (ツィムツーム) – Japanese cargo ship, Life of Pi, 2012
 * Tugboat Annie – Tugboat Annie, 1933 (portrayed by tugboat Arthur Foss)
 * Turtle – DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
 * U-571 – appears in U-571, 2000 (coincidentally the same number as German submarine U-571)
 * Ulysses – submarine, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, 2001
 * USS Ulysses – Los Angeles-class submarine in Crash Dive, 1996
 * USS Utah (SSBN-745) – Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in Godzilla, 1998
 * USS Valhalla (SSN-905) – Los Angeles-class SSN in Rapid Assault, 1997
 * HMS Vengeance –British Royal Navy submarine in Johnny English Strikes Again, 2018
 * SS Venture – King Kong, 1933, 2005
 * SS Venture – cargo ship, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, 1997
 * HMS Venus – British Royal Navy frigate, Carry On Jack, 1962
 * HMS Victoria – British Royal Navy dreadnought, Britannic, 2000
 * HMS Viperess – British Royal Navy Victor-class destroyer, The Cruel Sea, 1953
 * The Wanderer – Captain Ron with Martin Short and Kurt Russell, 1992
 * USS Wayne – US Navy nuclear submarine in the TV movie Assault on the Wayne, 1971
 * USS Wayne (SSN-593) – US Navy nuclear submarine in the film The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977
 * We're Here – Captains Courageous with Spencer Tracy, 1937
 * Wonkatania – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 1971 (also appears in 2005 adaptation), based on the Cunard Line tradition of ending ships with "-ia" (and playing off RMS Lusitania and RMS Aquitania)
 * Yellow Submarine – The Beatles' psychedelic submarine, 1968

Single works

 * USS Abraham Lincoln – frigate in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne, 1868
 * African Queen – The African Queen by C. S. Forester, 1935
 * Alice May – from the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service, 1907
 * Anchises – One of Ours by Willa Cather, 1922
 * HMS Antigone – Leander-class cruiser, The Cruiser by Warren Tute, 1955
 * Arabella – Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 1924
 * Araby – tramp freighter in Captain of the Araby and other Tod Moran adventure novels, by Howard Pease, 1953
 * Argo – Greek mythological ship in Argonautica, the original story of Jason and the Argonauts, by Apollonius Rhodius, 3rd century BCE
 * Ariadne – yacht in I Was There, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959
 * Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873
 * Mongolia – steamer running from Brindisi to Suez and Bombay
 * Rangoon – steamer running from Calcutta to Hong Kong
 * SS Carnatic – steamer taken by Passepartout from Hong Kong to Yokohama
 * Tankadère – pilot boat chartered by Phileas Fogg between Hong Kong and Shanghai
 * General Grant – steamer running from Yokohama to San Francisco
 * China – missed steamer running from New York to Liverpool
 * Henrietta – paddle steamer chartered by Phileas Fogg between New York and Bordeaux
 * Artemis – Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, 1993
 * HMS Artemis – The Ship by C. S. Forester, 1943
 * USS Athena (PC-15) – Cyclone-class patrol ship in The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story by Mark Helprin, 2023
 * Astrea – Roman galley ship, Ben-Hur by Genl Lew Wallace, 1880
 * Auf Wiedersehen – sloop, Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947
 * Aurora – ship in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890
 * Baalbek – Libyan freighter, Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
 * USS Barracuda (SSN-593) – U.S. Navy submarine in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
 * HMS Benbecula – A Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser in Rendezvous-South Atlantic by Douglas Reeman
 * USS Belinda (APA-22) – Away All Boats by Kenneth M. Dodson, 1954 (also appears in film version)
 * Billy Budd by Herman Melville, 1924
 * HMS Bellipotent
 * HMS Indomitable
 * Rights-of-Man
 * Britannia – Captain Grant's ship in In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867–1868
 * HMS Broadsword – Royal Navy Destroyer, involved in an intentional incident in First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, 1984


 * BRP Cagayan de Oro – Philippine Navy Whidbey Island-class LSD, Dragon Strike - The Millennium War by Humphrey Hawksley and Simon Holberton, 1997
 * USS Caine – destroyer minesweeper (DMS) in The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 1951 (also appears in film version)
 * HMS Calypso – frigate, The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, 1941
 * USS Carl Jackson – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
 * Centaur – racing ship captained by Sergestus in the Aeneid by Virgil, 1st century BCE
 * Charon II – old freighter in Trapp and World War Three by Brian Callison, 1988
 * Chimaera – racing ship captained by Gyas in the Aeneid by Virgil, 1st century BCE
 * Claymore – corvette in Quatrevingt-Treize (93) by Victor Hugo, 1874
 * HMS Compass Rose – corvette in The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951
 * Covenant – brig, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
 * HMAS Darwin – heavy cruiser in Away Boarders! by J._E._Macdonnell, 1962
 * Dazzler – sloop, The Cruise of the Dazzler by Jack London, 1902
 * USS Delaware – frigate, The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, 1941
 * Demeter – Russian schooner in Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897
 * USS Dolphin – submarine in Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, 1963
 * USS Dragonfish – U.S. Navy submarine in both Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler, 1976, and To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
 * Dulcibella – The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903
 * Duncan – ocean yacht, In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867
 * USS Eel – submarine in Run Silent, Run Deep (1955) and Dust on the Sea (1972) by Edward L. Beach Jr.
 * Erasmus  – Dutch pinnace piloted by John Blackthorne in James A. Michener's Shōgun, 1975
 * Erebus – Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988
 * Fenton – lugger, The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham, 1932
 * Fin of God – Omnian ship, Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, 1992
 * USS Fletcher (DDG-1005) – U.S. Navy Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer featured in The Backup Asset by Leslie Wolfe, 2015
 * The Fuwalda – ship which took Tarzans's parents to Africa, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
 * Ghost – sealing schooner, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904
 * SS Gigantic – S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic (based on the sinking of the RMS Titanic, by Peter Selgin, 1999
 * The Glen Carrig – from the horror novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson, 1907
 * Großadmiral Dönitz – Kriegsmarine nuclear submarine, Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
 * Großadmiral Raeder – Kriegsmarine aircraft carrier, Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
 * The Hesperus – from the poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1842
 * Hispaniola – Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
 * Hoptoad – from the novel "Pippi in the South Seas" by Astrid Lindgren, 1948
 * Speķa lode- from the novel series mežonīgie pīrāgi by māris putniņš
 * Ilya Podogin – Soviet SSN, Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995
 * USS Independence – fictional Wasp-class amphibious assault ship where a large part of The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place, 2004
 * Indra – schooner, Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947
 * HMS Iphigenia – frigate, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971
 * The Iron Pirate (The Nameless Ship) in the 1893 novel The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Max Pemberton. The ship's captain, Captain Black, has a submarine in Pemberton's 1911 sequel.
 * USS James T Doig – destroyer, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971
 * Janet Coombe – from the novel The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier, 1931
 * Jolly Roger – Captain Hook's pirate ship, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, 1904
 * USS Keeling – Mahan-class destroyer, codename "Greyhound", in The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, 1955
 * Korund – Tango-class submarine, Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer, 1993
 * USS Langley – a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman, 1992
 * The Last Ship by William Brinkley, 1988
 * USS Nathan James (DDG-80), the first nuclear powered Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer (By the time the TV series of the same name was produced in 2014, the USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) had been commissioned as DDG-80 with destroyers up to at least DDG-120 awarded, so was renumbered as DDG-151.)
 * Pushkin – a Russian ballistic missile submarine that also survived the nuclear attack
 * Leif Ericson – The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, 1975
 * HMS Leviathan – aircraft carrier, HMS Leviathan by John Winton, 1967 (There was a real carrier named HMS Leviathan but she was scrapped incomplete in 1968)
 * USS Levant – corvette in The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale, 1863
 * Liberian Star – Snakehead, of the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, 2007
 * USS Mako – U.S. Navy submarine in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
 * HMS Mallard – corvette, A Flock of Ships by Brian Callison, 1986
 * Marie Celeste – from the short story J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1884 (the real ship was Mary Celeste)
 * Mary Deare – The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
 * M.G.B. 1087, motor gunboat in The Ship That Died of Shame, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959
 * Milka – Jingo by Terry Pratchett, 1997 (name parodies the Pinta)
 * Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851
 * Pequod – American whaling ship searching for Moby-Dick
 * Bouton de Rose – French whaler with ambergris
 * Jeroboam – plague ship
 * Rachel – American whaling ship that finds Ishmael
 * Samuel Enderby – British whaler captained by Boomer
 * Mortzestus – horror novel The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson, 1909
 * Nautilus – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874) by Jules Verne
 * Nellie (presumably for one of the Nelsons in British service) – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899
 * Not for Hire – paddle-wheel steamboat in The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José Farmer, 1971
 * Numestra del Oro – armed merchantman owned by a Colombian cartel, Hammerheads by Dale Brown, 1990
 * USS Okinawa (LHD-10) – U.S. Navy Wasp-class (LHD) Landing Helicopter Dock / amphibious assault ship featured in The Ghost Pattern by Leslie Wolfe, 2015
 * HMS Orcus – Oberon-class submarine, Submarine by John Wingate, 1982
 * HMS Pandora – frigate, One of Our Warships by John Winton, 1975
 * Pacific Klondike – deep ocean drillship based on the Glomar Explorer, Fireplay by William Wingate, 1977
 * PC-237 – U.S. Navy patrol craft, Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947
 * Penguin – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, 1838
 * Pharaon – the ship on which Edmond Dantès first sailed in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844
 * Pocahontas – The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 1915
 * Polar Star – Soviet factory ship in Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith, 1989
 * SS Poseidon – ocean liner (based on the RMS Queen Mary), The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico, 1969
 * Pristis – racing ship captained by Mnestheus in the Aeneid by Virgil, 1st century BCE
 * USS Pyramus – Polaris missile-carrying SSBN, The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman, 1967
 * The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser, 1983
 * Grenouille Frénétique (Frantic Frog) – pirate ship
 * Laughing Sandbag – pirate ship
 * Plymouth Corporation's Revenge – pirate ship
 * Rocketing Spitfire – sloop
 * Santa Cascara (later HMS Golden Vanity) – Spanish galleon captured by the British
 * Santa Umbriago – Spanish warship
 * Twelve Apostles – passenger ship
 * Queequeg – The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket, 2004
 * Queen Anne, ocean liner in Oh To Be In England, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959
 * The Ramchunder – an East Indiaman, Captain Bragg, in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847–1848
 * The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 1984
 * Red October (Krasniy Oktyabr) – The new Soviet Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine commanded by defecting Captain Marko Ramius
 * Vladimir Konovalov – Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine hunting Red October
 * USS Dallas (SSN-700) – an actual US Navy attack submarine also shadowing Red October
 * Red Witch – Wake of the Red Witch by Garland Roark, 1946
 * USS Reluctant (AK-601) – World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen, 1946 (also appears in play, film and TV series versions)
 * Sable Lorcha – lorcha, The Sable Lorcha by Horace Hazeltine, 1912
 * HMS Saltash – frigate in The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951 (HMS Saltash Castle in the film)
 * USS San Pablo – river gunboat in The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna, 1962
 * Santa Ybel – Spanish treasure ship, Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947
 * HMS Saturn – Swiftsure-class sub, The Saturn Experiment by Peter Shepherd, 1988
 * USS Savo – aircraft carrier in The Bridges at Toko-ri by James A. Michener, 1953
 * HMS Scorpion – submarine in Send Down a Dove by Charles MacHardy, 1968
 * USS Scorpion – On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957
 * Scylla – racing ship captained by Cloanthus in the Aeneid by Virgil, 1st century BCE
 * USS Sea Trench – Aquarius Mission by Martin Caidin, 1978
 * The Sea Witch – yacht, The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956
 * USOS Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon, 1961
 * Shark – destroyer, Black August by Dennis Wheatley, 1934
 * HMS Sirdar (fictional) – British destroyer, The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean, 1957 (the actual HMS Sirdar was a submarine)
 * Siren – yacht, A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse, 1919
 * Slewfoot – the crew's nickname for a PT boat whose number is never given, in Torpedo Run by Robb White, 1962
 * Speranza – Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler, 1943
 * Spirit of the Hudson – riverboat casino in Backflash by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark, 1998
 * USS Starbuck (SSN-989) – Pacific Vortex! by Clive Cussler, 1983 (Cover of Sphere edition shows SSN-107 on the fin.)
 * USS Stingray – U.S. Navy submarine in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
 * USS Stormy Beach – Long Beach-class cruiser, Fireplay by William Wingate, 1977
 * USS Swordfish – On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957
 * HMS Sybaris – British heavy cruiser, The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean, 1957
 * Tai-pan by James Clavell, 1966
 * Struan & Company
 * China Cloud – 22 gun China Clipper, flagship of Struan & Co
 * Blue Cloud – clipper; Struan's ships are all named for his mother, whose maiden name was McCloud.
 * Resting Cloud – hulk, Struan's HQ prior to the establishment of British Hong Kong
 * Scarlet Cloud -–lost ship, nearly precipitating Struan's bankruptcy
 * Thunder Cloud – Struan's record setting first ship to arrive in Hong Kong from London after the establishment of British Hong Kong
 * Royal Navy
 * HMS Vengeance – 74 gun flagship of the East Indies and China Station, based on HMS Cornwallis (1813)
 * HMS Mermaid – 22 gun Sloop-of-war under the command of Captain Glessing
 * HMS Nemesis – the first steam frigate to make the journey from London to Hong Kong, based on the HMS Rattler (1843)
 * Other ships
 * White Witch – 22 gun China Clipper, flagship of Brock & Sons
 * Gray Witch – clipper under the command of Brock's son Gorth
 * Princess of Alabama – 20 gun brig, flagship of Cooper & Tillman
 * Vagrant Star – an East Indiaman in which Struan and Brock met prior to the events in Tai-pan
 * USS Tallahatchie County – U.S. Navy submarine tender in To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph, 1986
 * HMS Téméraire – Polaris nuclear submarine, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971
 * USS Thomas Jefferson – Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson, 1997
 * HMS Thunder Child – The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1897
 * SS Titan – Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson (a fictional story that is very similar to the real life of the sinking of the RMS Titanic 14 years later in 1912), 1898
 * MV Toscana – ship used by the mercenaries in The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth, 1974
 * HMS Tristram – submarine in His Majesty's U-Boat by Douglas Reeman, 1973
 * HMS Tynecastle – frigate in Trapp and World War Three by Brian Callison, 1988
 * U-174 – Kriegsmarine U-boat, Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992
 * U-246 – Kriegsmarine U-boat in Away Boarders! by J._E._Macdonnell, 1962 (There was a real, unrelated U-246)
 * U-996 – Kriegsmarine U-boat, An Operational Necessity by Gwyn Griffin, 1967
 * HMS Ulysses – HMS Ulysses, by Alistair MacLean, 1955
 * SS Valparaiso – Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow, 1994–1999
 * Victor – Polish destroyer in The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, 1955
 * USS Vindicator (NMSS-3) – nuclear-powered strategic missile battleship, Fire Lance by David Mace, 1986
 * Vingilot – The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien, 1977
 * HMS Vortex – V and W-class destroyer in The Admiral by Warren Tute, 1963
 * The Walrus – Flint's pirate ship in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
 * USS Walrus – submarine in Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach Jr., 1955
 * We're Here – Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks, by Rudyard Kipling, 1897
 * HMS Winger – Flower-class corvette (based on the real HMS Shearwater (L39)) in Corvette Command by Nicholas Monsarrat, 1944

Series

 * A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
 * Ironborn
 * Black Wind
 * Dagger
 * Dagon's Feast
 * Esgred
 * Fingerdancer
 * Foamdrinker
 * Forlorn Hope
 * Golden Storm
 * Great Kraken
 * Grey Ghost
 * Grief
 * Hardhand
 * Iron Lady
 * Iron Vengeance
 * Iron Victory
 * Iron Wind
 * Iron Wing
 * Kite
 * Kraken's Kiss
 * Lamentation
 * Leviathan
 * Lord Dagon
 * Lord Quellon
 * Lord Vickon
 * Helldiver
 * Maiden's Bane
 * Nightflyer
 * Reapers Wind
 * Red Jester
 * Red Tide
 * Salty Wench
 * Sea Bitch
 * Sea Song
 * Seven Skulls
 * Shark
 * Silence
 * Silverfin
 * Sparrowhawk
 * Swiftin
 * Thrall's Bane
 * Thunderer
 * Warhammer
 * Warrior Wench
 * White Widow
 * Woe
 * The Royal Fleet (Baratheon)
 * Fury
 * King Robert's Hammer
 * Lady Lyanna
 * Lionstar
 * Seaswift
 * Lannister
 * Brave Joffrey
 * Golden Rose
 * Lady Joanna
 * Lady Olenna
 * Lioness
 * Lord Renly
 * Lord Tywin
 * Princess Marcella
 * Queen Margaery
 * Sweet Cersei
 * Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
 * HMS Diane
 * Franklin – privateer
 * HEICS Niobe
 * USS Norfolk
 * Nutmeg of Consolation
 * HM Polychrest – sloop
 * HM Sophie – sloop
 * HMS Worcester
 * Axis of Time trilogy by John Birmingham
 * USS Amanda Garrett
 * Dessaix
 * HMS Fearless
 * HMAS Havoc
 * USS Hillary Clinton – aircraft carrier
 * HMAS Ipswich
 * USS Kandahar
 * USS Kennebunkport
 * USS Leyte Gulf
 * HMAS Moreton Bay
 * KRI Nuku
 * USS Providence
 * JDS Siranui
 * KRI Sutanto
 * HMS Trident
 * Biggles series by W. E. Johns
 * SS Alice Clair – British merchant ship
 * Benegal Star – tramp steamer
 * Colonia – British merchant ship
 * Dundee Castle – British merchant ship
 * Queen of Olati – British steamship
 * HMS Seafret – British destroyer
 * Shanodah – British merchant ship
 * Tasman – Australian merchant ship
 * Bloody Jack series by Louis A. Meyer
 * Belle of the Golden West
 * Bloodhound
 * HMS Dolphin
 * Emerald
 * HMS Hope
 * HMS Juno
 * Nancy B. Alsop
 * HMS Wolverine
 * Bolitho series by Alexander Kent
 * HMS Achates
 * HMS Argonaute
 * HMS Athena
 * HM Avenger – cutter
 * HMS Destiny
 * HMS Euryalus
 * Golden Plover
 * HMS Gorgon
 * HMS Hyperion
 * Nautilus – French frigate
 * HMS Onward
 * HMS Phalarope
 * HM Sparrow – sloop
 * HMS Tempest
 * HMS Trojan
 * HMS Undine
 * HMS Unrivalled
 * The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis
 * Dawn Treader
 * Splendor Hyaline
 * The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
 * Starfare's Gem
 * Discworld by Terry Pratchett
 * The Boat – Ankh-Morporkian submarine
 * Fin of God – Omnian naval vessel
 * Indestructible – Ankh-Morporkian commandeered naval vessel
 * Indolence – Ankh-Morporkian commandeered naval vessel
 * Mary-Jane – Ankh-Morporkian naval vessel
 * Milka – Ankh-Morporkian trading vessel
 * Ocean Waltzer
 * Prid of Ankh-Morpork – Ankh-Morporkian commandeered naval vessel
 * Queen of Quirm – Quirmian paddleship
 * Roberta E. Biscuit – Quirmian paddleship
 * Unnamed – unregistered trading vessel
 * Wonderful Fanny – Quirmian paddleship
 * Dray Prescot series by Kenneth Bulmer (as Alan Burt Akers)
 * HMS Rockingham
 * Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin
 * Lookfar – Ged's boat, formerly called Sanderling
 * Edward Mainwaring series by Victor Suthren
 * HMS Pallas
 * Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber
 * Black Treasurer
 * Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
 * Balliol College – slave-trader
 * Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
 * The Durmstrang ship
 * Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan
 * Argo II
 * Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester
 * HMS Atropos
 * HMS Clorinda
 * Estrella
 * HMS Hotspur
 * HMS Justinian
 * HMS Lydia
 * Mejidieh
 * Natividad
 * HMS Nonsuch
 * HM Retribution – sloop
 * Speedwell
 * HMS Sutherland
 * HMS Witch of Endor
 * Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini
 * The Dragon Wing
 * Jack Ryan universe series by Tom Clancy
 * E.S. Politovsky – Soviet Alfa-class submarine
 * Red October – Soviet Typhoon-class submarine
 * V.K. Konovalov – Soviet Alfa-class submarine
 * USCGC Panache – sole example of new class of high endurance cutter
 * JS Mutsu – Japanese-built destroyer generally similar to American Arleigh Burke class
 * Jake Grafton series by Stephen Coonts
 * Flight of the Intruder, 1986
 * USS Shiloh – aircraft carrier (One former and one current US Navy ship share that name, neither of them an aircraft carrier.)
 * The Intruders, 1994
 * USS Columbia – aircraft carrier (Seven former, one current, and one future US Navy ships share that name, none of them an aircraft carrier)
 * Reduktor – Soviet intelligence ship
 * Final Flight, 1988
 * USS United States – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (A US Navy aircraft carrier was to have had that name, but the ship was cancelled.)
 * America, 2001
 * USS America – nuclear-powered attack submarine (Three former and one current US Navy ships share that name, none of them a submarine.)
 * Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope
 * HMS Calypso
 * HMS Dido
 * HMS Jocasta
 * HM Triton – brig
 * John Fury series by G. S. Beard
 * HMS Amazon – British 32-gun frigate
 * Bedford – merchantman
 * Earl of Mornington – East India Company 24-gun warship
 * Magicienne – French frigate
 * Otter – East India Company 18-gun warship
 * HMS Wasp – British brigantine
 * Nathaniel Drinkwater series by Richard Woodman
 * HMS Antigone – former French frigate
 * HM Hellebore – brig
 * HM Kestrel – cutter
 * HMS Melusine
 * HMS Patrician
 * Vestal – paddle-steamer
 * HM Virago – bomb-vessel
 * Oz series by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson et al.
 * Crescent Moon
 * Para Handy series by Neil Munro
 * Vital Spark
 * Paul Gallant series by Victor Suthren
 * Echo – corvette
 * Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * The Gloria Scott
 * "The Five Orange Pips"
 * Lone Star
 * "The Cardboard Box"
 * Conqueror (Liverpool and London Line)
 * May Day (Liverpool and London Line)
 * "The Adventure of Black Peter"
 * Sea Unicorn – whaler
 * Southern Victory series by Harry Turtledove
 * CSS Bonefish – Confederate submarine, The Great War: Walk in Hell
 * USS Chapultepec – aircraft carrier, The Great War: American Front
 * USS Dakota – U.S. battleship, The Great War: American Front
 * CSS Fort Sumter – Confederate cruiser, The Great War: American Front
 * CSS Hot Springs – destroyer escort in the Second Great War
 * USS Josephus Daniels – destroyer escort in Second Great War
 * USS Oregon – battleship in Second Great War
 * USS Pocahantas, Arkansas – troop transport named after one of the rare U.S. victories in the Second Mexican War
 * USS Punishment – U.S. river monitor operating on the Mississippi, The Great War: Walk in Hell
 * USS Remembrance – aircraft carrier
 * Ripple – U.S. fishing boat, The Great War: American Front
 * USS Sandwich Islands
 * CSS Scallop – Confederate submarine, The Great War: American Front
 * Spray – U.S. fishing trawler / Q-ship, The Great War: American Front
 * CSS Swamp Fox – Confederate commerce raider, The Great War: American Front
 * USS Trenton – aircraft carrier
 * CSS Whelk – Confederate submarine, The Great War: American Front
 * Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome


 * Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald
 * Busted Flush – Travis McGee's houseboat
 * HooBoy – charter fishing boat
 * John Maynard Keynes – Meyer's first houseboat
 * Munequita – McGee's speedboat
 * Thorstein Veblen – Meyer's second houseboat
 * Zion Chronicles series by Bodie Thoene
 * Ave Maria
 * Clive Cussler works
 * First Attempt—in The Mediterranean Caper and Raise the Titanic!
 * Oregon, Juan Cabrillo's base-ship in Oregon Files series

Norse mythology

 * Hringhorni – the ship of Baldr
 * Naglfar – ship in Norse mythology made of the fingernails and toenails of the dead
 * Skíðblaðnir – the ship of Freyr

Biblical

 * Ark – Noah's ship

Radio

 * Empress of Coconut – Potarneyland cruise liner, The Navy Lark
 * HMS Goliath – British stealth nuclear submarine, Deep Trouble
 * HMS Makepeace – British destroyer, The Navy Lark
 * Marie Valette – 18th-century ship sunk in the English Channel, The Navy Lark
 * Poppadum – Potarneyland frigate, The Navy Lark
 * Saucy Seagull – British fishing trawler, The Navy Lark
 * The Scarlet Queen – ketch, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, 1947 radio serial
 * HMS Troutbridge – British frigate, The Navy Lark

Stage

 * Flying Dutchman – in the 1843 opera Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner) and other plays, movies and novels
 * HMS Pinafore – 1878 opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
 * USS Reluctant (AK-601) – Mister Roberts (also appears in novel, films, and TV series versions)

Television

 * USS Allegiance – U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine from The X-Files episode "End Game"
 * HMAS Ambush – Patrol Boat
 * USS Ardent – U.S. Navy destroyer escort from The X-Files episode "Død Kalm"
 * Argonaut – Mike Nelson's boat in Sea Hunt, 1950s series
 * USS Appleby – U.S. Navy destroyer in the series Ensign O'Toole, 1962–1963
 * USS Avington – U.S. Navy Nimitz class carrier in the series Justice League (TV series), episode 34 (october 18, 2003)
 * Batboat – Batman
 * Black Rock – a fully rigged 19th-century British trading ship that was found shipwrecked on the Island and overgrown by the jungle, Lost
 * SS Bernice – cargo ship in the Doctor Who serial Carnival of Monsters
 * Black Pig – Captain Pugwash, UK children's TV cartoon series
 * Childish Tycoon – Community
 * SS Claridon – ocean liner (based on the RMS Queen Mary) in Ghost Whisperer
 * HMAS Defiance – Patrol Boat
 * USS Georgetown – Supercarrier, 1988
 * Golden Lolly – pirate ship, Henry's Cat
 * Gone Fission – Mr. Burns' yacht in The Simpsons
 * Greasy Fleece – pirate ship, Henry's Cat
 * HMAS Hammersley – Sea Patrol
 * Haunted Star – General Hospital
 * HMS Hero (F42) – Warship
 * HMAS Kingston – Sea Patrol
 * USS Kiwi – The Wackiest Ship in the Army
 * SS Lady Anne – cruise ship, "Passage on the Lady Anne" episode of The Twilight Zone
 * SS Andrea I (based on the SS Shieldhall) – ocean liner from Brazilian telenovela Terra Nostra (Our Land), 1999
 * Lake Wallenpaupack Princess – excursion / tour boat, The Office
 * Leaking Lena – Captain Hufenpuf's ship, Beany and Cecil
 * USS Lexington – US aircraft carrier in "The Mission", episode 5 of Designated Survivor
 * HMS Lindana – sloop, Phineas and Ferb
 * SS Maid of Plygh – freight ship, Jane
 * USS Massachusetts – 24: Live Another Day
 * S. S. Minnow – Gilligan's Island
 * S.S. Minnow II – Rescue from Gilligan's Island
 * SS Moldavia – passenger ship, You Rang, M'Lord?
 * USS Monroe (DD-211) – The Pretender Together –
 * SS Albatroz (based on the SS Keewatin) – ocean liner colliding with an iceberg from Brazilian telenovela O Tempo Não Para (English: Crashing Into the Future), 2018
 * USS Nathan James (DDG-151) – The Last Ship
 * Naughty Jane – rowboat, Dad's Army
 * HMS Peerless – Royal Navy Anti-submarine warfare ship serving in the British Pacific Fleet on which Albert Gladstone Trotter served, sunk in a collision with USS Pittsburgh. Mention in Only Fools and Horses episode Dates
 * Persephone – log salvage boat from The Beachcombers
 * Piper Maru – French ship from The X-Files episode "Piper Maru"
 * USS Pittsburgh – U.S. Navy aircraft carrier mentioned in Only Fools and Horses episode Dates. Picked up survivors from HMS Peerless after the latter was lost in a collision with the ship.
 * RMS Princess Isabella (based on the RMS Queen Mary 2) – 10.5: Apocalypse
 * PT-73 – the PT boat from McHale's Navy
 * PT-116 – McHale's Navy
 * Queen Anne – ocean liner from The X-Files episode "Triangle"
 * SS Queen of Glasgow – passenger ship, "Judgment Night" episode of The Twilight Zone
 * Queen's Gambit – Arrow
 * USS Reluctant (AK-601) – World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts (also appears in novel, play and film versions)
 * USS Sea Spanker – aircraft carrier, from the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of The Simpsons
 * seaQuest DSV 4600 – seaQuest DSV
 * USOS Seaview – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
 * Skydiver – UFO, 1970–1971
 * Slice of Life – Dexter
 * Stingray – WASP submarine in Stingray, 1964–1965
 * St. Vitus Dance – Sonny Crockett's houseboat from Miami Vice
 * Sultana – The Buccaneers, 1956
 * RMS Sunshine – setting for the BBC television variety programme Cabaret Cruise, 1937–49
 * SS Royal (based on the RMS Queen Mary) – ocean liner from Brazilian telenovela Tempo de Amar (English title: A Time to Love), 2017
 * Temperance – Bones
 * Thunder – super speedboat in Thunder in Paradise, 1994
 * Thunderbird 4 – Thunderbirds, 1964
 * Tiki III – schooner in Adventures in Paradise, 1960s series by James Michener
 * SS Tiny Tub – rented tugboat from Tiny Toon Adventures episode "No Toon Is an Island"
 * SS Tipton – The Suite Life on Deck
 * Unnamed ghost ship – from SpongeBob SquarePants, where the Flying Dutchman lives
 * Vast Explorer – Adventure Inc., 2003§
 * SS Vondel – passenger ship in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, sunk in a pirate attack
 * Bárbara de Braganza (based on Cunard-White Star Line's ships RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth) – ocean liner from High Seas
 * Kerberos (based on the RMS Lusitania) – ocean liner from 1899
 * Prometheus (based on the RMS Mauritania, RMS Lusitania's sister ship) – ocean liner from 1899
 * USS Walter Mondale – laundry ship from The Simpsons, mentioned in the episode "Bart vs. Australia"
 * X-2 – hydrofoil in The Venture Bros.
 * Zuko's Fire Nation ship – Avatar: The Last Airbender

Multiple ships by series

 * Horatio Hornblower
 * HMS Hotspur – 20-gun sloop
 * HMS Justinian – 74-gun ship-of-the-line
 * Le Rève – French sloop
 * Papillion – French frigate
 * JAG / NCIS universe (many ships)
 * Last Resort universe
 * USS Colorado (SSBN-753) – fictional Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine
 * USS Patrick Lawrence (DDG-112) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer
 * The Last Ship Universe
 * HMS Achilles (Hull Number Unknown) – fictional Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, The Last Ship, 2015
 * USS Hayward (DDG-157) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, The Last Ship, 2016
 * USS Nathan James (DDG-151) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, The Last Ship, 2014
 * USS Shackleton (DDG-162) – fictional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, The Last Ship, 2016
 * USNS Solace (T-AH-21) – fictional Mercy-class hospital ship, The Last Ship, 2015
 * RFS Vyerni (hull number unknown) – fictional Kirov-class battlecruiser, The Last Ship, 2014
 * The Onedin Line series
 * Anne Onedin – steamship, portrayed in the series by the schooner Charlotte Rhodes with a false funnel, wheelhouse amidships, and aft deckhouse
 * Charlotte Rhodes – first ship of James Onedin (This was in fact an actual schooner named "Charlotte Rhodes", née "Meta Jan", née "Eva". In 1979 it was destroyed at Amsterdam harbour by arson.)
 * Medusa
 * Pampero
 * Soren Larsen (This was in fact an actual ship, a brigantine, and is still sailing today out of New Zealand.)
 * Vigil
 * HMS Archer
 * HMS Audacious
 * USS Delaware
 * Mhairi Finnea – Scottish fishing trawler
 * HMS Riffa
 * HMS Vanguard – British Vanguard-class submarine
 * HMS Vanquish – British Vanguard-class submarine
 * HMS Vigil – British Vanguard-class submarine
 * HMS Virtue – British Vanguard-class submarine

Folklore, etc.

 * Courser or the Tuscarora – Alfred Bulltop Stormalong's clipper ship
 * Flying Dutchman
 * HMS Friday – popular urban legend of the British Royal Navy
 * Prydwen – ship of King Arthur in the poem Preiddeu Annwfn