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).

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)
• 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

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
• 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)
• Alabama (SSBN-731) - Nuclear submarine featured in the movie Crimson Tide
• 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 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
• USS Haynes - The Enemy Below
• Unnamed gunboat in Apocalypse Now
• 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
• The Red Witch - Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne

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|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

See also

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