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).

Contents

1 Written word 1.1 Single works 1.2 Series 2 Stage 3 Film 4 Television 5 See also

Written word

Single works

• USS Caine (The Caine Mutiny) (also appears in film version)
• The Dawn Treader in the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
• USS Delaware (The Captain from Connecticut )
• The Erebus (Alaska)
• The Evening Star (Alaska)
• The Milka (Jingo) (name parodies the Pinta )
• The Nautilus (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
• The Nellie (Heart of Darkness)
• Pequod (Moby Dick)
• Red October (The Hunt for Red October; also appears in filmed version)
• SS Titan (Futility )
• HMS Avenger in Billy Budd
• HMS Compass Rose in The Cruel Sea
• HMS Thunderchild in 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 )

Series

• Horatio Hornblower series
  • HMS Atropos
  • HMS Clorinda
  • HMS Hotspur
  • HMS Lydia
  • HMS Nonsuch
  • HMS Sutherland
  • Natividad
• Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series
  • HMS Sophie
  • HMS Polychrest
  • HMS Surprise
• Neil Munro 's Para Handy series
  • The Vital Spark

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)
• SS Andes (cruise ship in Let's Go Native , 1930 movie)
• USS Bedford (DLG-113) (The Bedford Incident)
• USS Caine (The Caine Mutiny) (Also appears in written version)
• USS Neptune (Gray Lady Down )
• USS Nerka (Run Silent, Run Deep)
• 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
• USS Haynes (The Enemy Below )
• The Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
• HMS Interceptor (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
• HMS Dauntless (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)

Television

• HMAS Defiance (Patrol Boat )
• 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 Minnow (Gilligan's Island)
• JAG
  • USS Bennington (CVN-78)
  • USS Seahawk
  • USS Stanley Dace
  • USS Tigershark
  • USS Watertown

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• List of famous ships
• List of fictional spaceships