World War 1 and 2 - List of fictional ships

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

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