List of fictional ships

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 – United Nations 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
• Clobird – Full Ahead! Coco
• SS Cussler – 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 – Kagerō-class destroyer, Yokosuka girls marines high school, High School Fleet
• JDS Hotaka – 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 from Innocent Venus
• Mermaid – ocean liner in Cat's Eye
• – 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 – Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Pascal Magi – Tactical Roar
• Penguin Manju Go – Icebreaker in A Place Further than the Universe
• Queen Berry – ocean liner in Gosick
• Queen Sallybeth – 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 – cruise ship in Spy 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
• USS Flagg – US Navy aircraft carrier in the G.I. Joe media franchise
• 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
• – 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
• SNA "Titane" - French Rubis-class submarine in The Wolf's Call, 2019
• SNLE "L'Effroyable" - French Triomphant-class submarine in The Wolf's Call, 2019
• SNLE "L'Implacable" - French Triomphant-class submarine in The Wolf's Call, 2019
• Timour III - Decommissioned Soviet Delta III-class submarine in The Wolf's Call, 2019
• Stalnoivolk - Russian Akula-class submarine in Aquaman, 2018
• USS Abraham Lincoln - frigate in Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954
• USS Tampa Bay - American Los Angeles-class submarine in Hunter Killer, 2018
• USS Arkansas - American Virginia-class submarine in Hunter Killer, 2018
• RMS Legacy – ocean liner/cruise ship in Hotel Transylvania 3, 2018
• RFS Konek - Russian Akula-class submarine in Hunter Killer, 2018
• RFS Volkov - Russian Yasen-class submarine in Hunter Killer, 2018
• RFS Yevchenko - Russian Udaloy-class destroyer in Hunter Killer, 2018
• RMS Madrigal – ocean liner in Encanto, 2021
• K-599 "Sevastopol" - Russian Akula-class submarine in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, 2023
• Academic Vladislav Volkov - Russian research ship in Virus, 1999
• Acheron - French Napoleonic frigate in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003
• MV Aeolus - deserted 1930s cruise ship in Triangle, 2009
• African Queen - The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, 1951
• USS Alameda - 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 - 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 - cruise ship, Deep Rising, 1998
• - Full Fathom Five, 1990
• SS Atlantic - ocean liner, Atlantic, 1929
• RMS Augusta - ocean liner, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2016
• HMS Avenger - Billy Budd, 1962
• HMS Ballantrae - British Royal Navy 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 - The Bedford Incident, 1965
• Belafonte - oceanographic research vessel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004
• USS Belinda - Away All Boats, 1956
• Benthic Explorer - offshore support ship, The Abyss, 1989
• HMS Berkeley - in Up the Creek, 1958
• Black Hawk - The Pirate of the Black Hawk 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 - cruise ship in Juggernaut, 1974
• Caca de Toro - boat in After the Storm, 2001
• - The Caine Mutiny, 1954
• Caledonia II - Some Like It Hot, 1959
• Cassidy - destroyer in In Harm's Way, 1965
• USS Charleston - 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 - ocean liner in The Last Voyage, 1960
• SS Colossal - ocean liner, The Big Broadcast of 1938, 1938
• HMS Compass Rose - British Royal Navy Flower-class corvette in The Cruel Sea, 1953
• - World War II sub Destination Tokyo with Cary Grant, 1943
• Corsair - in Crash Dive, 1943
• SS Crescent Star - 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 - 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
• - 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 Calmprivate 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 with John Wayne and Lana Turner, and briefly in Patriot Games with Harrison Ford, 1992
• Everjust – large yacht in Incredibles 2, 2018
• SS Virginian – ocean liner, The Legend of 1900, 1998
• SS Essess - Hot Shots!, 1991
• Flying Dutchman - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• The Flying Wasp - Caddyshack, 1980
• MS Forest Swan - Panamanian cargo ship, Die Hard with a Vengeance, 1995
• SS Mayflower - Luxury Liner, 1948
• Genesis - cruise ship in 2012, 2009
• Genoa Maru - Across the Pacific, 1942
• SS Germania - 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 '''', Federico Fellini, 1983
• RMS Goliath - 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 - cruise liner, Carry On Cruising, 1962
• Hav Vind - Norwegian oil tanker, Cloverfield, 2008
• USS Haynes - destroyer escort, The Enemy Below, 1957
• The Henrietta - paddle steamer, Around the World in 80 Days, 1956
• Immer Essen - 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
• KCS Earth, KCS Moon, KCS Sky, KCS Star and KCS Sun - cargo ship operated by fictional KCS Shipping Company in Customs Frontline, 2024
• 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 - Los Angeles-class SSN 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
• - 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, Mysterious Island, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, The Return of Captain Nemo and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• 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 - 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 , Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, The Poseidon Adventure Poseidon
• 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 - 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
• Red Witch - Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne, 1948
• Regent Queen - cruise ship in Chupacabra: Dark Seas, 2005
• USS Reluctant - World War II cargo ship in Mister Roberts and the 1984 television film
• Rights-of-Man - Billy Budd, 1962
• Rob Roy - commercial freighter, Windbag the Sailor, 1936
• SS Roland - 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
• Sancta Helena a Frigate in Underworld: Evolution, 2006
• Saracen - yacht, Dead Calm, 1989
• USS Saratoga - 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
• 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 - 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
• 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
• - Balao-class submarine, Down Periscope, 1996
• 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 - United States nuclear submarine from Ice Station Zebra, 1968
• USS Tigershark - The Atomic Submarine, 1959
• SS Titanic II - fictional replica of the real-life, 2010
• Titanic III – fictional 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 - Japanese cargo ship, Life of Pi, 2012
• Tugboat Annie - Tugboat Annie, 1933
• Turtle - DSV in Raise the Titanic, 1980
• U-571 - appears in U-571, 2000
• Ulysses - submarine, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, 2001
• USS Ulysses - Los Angeles-class submarine in Crash Dive, 1996
• USS Utah - Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in Godzilla, 1998
• USS Valhalla - Los Angeles-class SSN in Rapid Assault, 1997
• HMS VengeanceBritish 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 - 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, based on the Cunard Line tradition of ending ships with "-ia"
• Yellow Submarine - The Beatles' psychedelic submarine, 1968