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{{quote|''I'm on a boat motherfucker, take a look at me''
''Straight flowin' on a boat on the deep blue sea''
''Bustin' five knots, [[Dramatic Wind|wind whippin' out my coat]]''
''You can't stop me [[Cluster F-Bomb|motherfucker]], cause I'm on a boat!''|'''[[The Lonely Island]]''', "I'm On A Boat"}}
Pretty [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|self-explanatory]]. What the [[Cool Car]] and [[Tank Goodness]] is to the road, the [[Cool Plane]] is to the sky, and the [[Cool Starship]] is to space, the
On the "boat" vs. "ship" thing: A ''boat'' is something you can lift out of the water and place on the deck of a ''ship.'' (Except submarines are boats. Tenders usually are too, no matter how big they are.) And remember, it's not an it, [[I Call It Vera|she's a she]]. (Except for if you're Russian.) Expect to get called on this by hardcore Navy types.
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Under no circumstances confuse this with a [[School Days|Nice Boat]]... which is something entirely different and more disturbing. Though it may depends if you like the boat....
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Solaris in ''[[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]]''
* The Rabbit from ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'', a sailing-boat ''that hovers over land''.
* ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6]]'': The titular sub from the anime.
* The Tuatha De Danaan from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' is a state-of-the-art submarine featuring numerous missile silos, a small air force for land-based operations, and a contingent of the most advanced [[Humongous Mecha]] known to mankind. It's also a ''stealth'' submarine, meaning it has sonar-dampening hull and an ultra-silent magnetohydrodynamic drive. If that doesn't scream "cool", I don't know what does.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has a number of examples: there are the ships used by the Straw Hat Pirates, the Going Merry and the Thousand Sunny, as well as the floating restaurant Baratie.
** To elaborate on Thousand Sunny, the ship has a [[Wave Motion Gun|Gaon Cannon]] which shoots extremely pressurized air which annihilates all in its path, it also has a jet engine, a small fleet of mini-ships, among them a submarine and a wide variety of useful equipment. Cannon and jet are powered by barrels of ''cola'' by the way.
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* Eri from ''[[School Rumble]]'' owned one (anime only).
* During the Orange Islands season of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', Team Rocket followed the twerps around in a ''pedal-powered'' submarine that looked like a giant Magikarp. (the previous season had one episode where they had a similar pedal-powered [[Sea Monster|Gyarados]]) The kids themselves traveled the seas on Ash's [[Stock Ness Monster|Lapras]].
* The titular ship of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' can double as this, as it was originally a fishing ship, but was modified by Jet for use as a bounty hunting craft.
* ''[[Corsair]]'' features a rather nice fleet of boats, particularly the Belle Ayme.
* The Katsura family yacht in ''[[School Days]]''. [[Memetic Mutation|NICE BOAT!]] The original Nice Boat may count too... if you like the boat.
* Red Shield's headquarters in ''[[Blood
* ''[[Super Atragon]]'' features two [[
* Tidal Wave is also awesome in the ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' cartoon, and Thunderblast of ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' turns into a sleek speedboat with a rocket launcher.
** There's also Tidal Wave's reformatted form Mirage from ''[[Transformers Energon]]'', who transforms into an awesome-looking assault speedboat.
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* Various incarnations of the [[Batman|Batboat]]. Especially the ones that turn into a Batsub.
** In the ''Captain Leatherwing'' [[Elseworld]], Pirate Batman has the Flying Fox.
* ''Iron Man Noir'' features Stark Industries' ''Happy Hogan'', a ''very'' small submersible with just enough room for four people (plus enough headroom to stand), and Captain Namor's ''Lady Dorma'', a sub easily twice the ''Hogan'''s size and with a lot more power.
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* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] has:
** The Amazon boat from ''[[Moonraker]]''
** The Q-Boat from the ''[[
** The ''Disco Volante'' from ''[[Thunderball]]'', [[The Spy Who Loved Me|Stromberg's]] ''Liparus'', and Elliot Carver's stealth boat from ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' (the latter obviously supposed to be the real-life Sea Shadow stealth technology demonstrator). Bond villains luck out with boats, apparently.
*** Not just them. The British had the St. Georges - ugly trawler on the outside, sophisticated spy ship on the inside, and capable of launching Britain's nuclear arsenal. Needed more armour, though.
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** Also it gets {{spoiler|lifted out of the water by Magneto}}, so that's cool.
* In ''[[The Asylum]]'''s modern adaptation of ''[[Moby Dick]]'', the ''Pequod'' is a nuclear submarine for the US Navy. Captain Ahab modifies it's torpedoes into harpoons, and is also carrying a miniature atomic device known as [[Mythology Gag|"The Fadallah"]] for when he finally tracks down the white whale.
* The Zissou Team's ''Belafonte'' in ''[[The Life Aquatic]]''. It has a spa, a recording studio, monitoring equipment, a duo of scout dolphins, a submersible, a helicopter, an underwater observation deck, and much more.
* Tony Trihull from ''[[Cars 2]]'', who is a large shark-faced battleship used as the Lemons' main form of transportation.
** Also, [[Deadliest Catch|Crabby]], Finn
* ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'' has [[Evil Albino|Shen's]] cannon ship seen in the climax.
* Averted in ''PT 109''. The PT-boats in general are referred to as 'pieces of plywood', and the 109 in particular is (informed to be) in pretty bad shape.
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* The Dragon Wing of the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'', finest sailing ship in the Empire, designed by master shipwright Kennel... and not available to anyone who can't pay a roomful of gold. {{spoiler|The Palancar Pirates find a way around that, though.}}
* [[Master and Commander|HMS Surprise]], undeniably.
* The ''Mabuse'' in Charles Stross' ''[[The Laundry Series|The Jennifer Morgue]]''. Converted into a private yacht from an ex-Soviet [[wikipedia:Burevestnik class frigate|Krivak III]] class missile frigate, by Bill Gates-ian multi-billionaire villain Ellis Billington.
* ''[[Tall Tale America]]'' has Stormalong's prize ship, the ''Albatross''.
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* The HMS Thunder Child from [[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]], a torpedo ram that took out three tripods while protecting refugees from London.
* The titular [[Steampunk]] submersible from ''[[Ganymede]]'' by Cherie Priest.
* [[Dark Life]] has the Spector: a stealth sub shaped like an enormous shark!
* At the end of ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', the Valar turned Eärendil's ship Vingilótë into a flying ship, so he could sail around in the outer atmosphere, or outer space (it's not clear which). With the last Silmaril tried to his head, he became the Evening Star and Morning Star (a.k.a. Venus).
* ''Orca'' from Martin Caidin's ''The Last Fathom''. The design philosophy here was that conventional submarines work on the buoyancy principle like airships. ''Orca'' turned the principle of aerodynamic lift (wings) into hydrodynamic lift. Having no ballast tanks meant it was smaller, with a stronger hull, and as airplanes are to airships, '''lots''' faster than normal subs.
* In ''Rendezvous 2.2'' by Robert D. Bennett, the villain was a Cuban [[Mad Scientist]] who'd built a small flotilla of mini-subs—with hydrofoils allowing them to achieve outrageous speeds when surfaced, and then dive out of sight if somebody their [[Gatling Good|Gatling guns]] couldn't take came along. They were impressively faster than normal '''under'''water as well, because the inventor had come up with [[Applied Phlebotinum|a technique]]<ref>Similar but not identical to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation supercavitation]</ref> that significantly reduced water resistance.
== Live Action TV ==
* The "S.S.R.N. Seaview" sub from ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]''.
** The Flying Submarine from the same series managed to be a
* The eponymous submarine, hull number DSV-4600, from ''[[SeaQuest DSV]]''. A Cool Boat in its own right, and carried a few other mini-Cool Boats aboard, including but not limited to the Stinger (underwater hot rod), the crab submersibles and the shuttles.
* Thunder from ''[[Thunder in Paradise]]''.
* ''[[UFO]]''. Skydiver, an atomic submarine with [[Military Mashup Machine|hydrofoil capability and a jet interceptor for a nose]].
* The ''[[
** A frozen aircraft carrier? Didn't get past the prototype stage, but took three summers to melt even that.
*** One of Harry Turtledove's books in the Darkness series (a fantasy version of WWII) has the American Essex-class carriers represented by giant magically-permanently-frozen icebergs that have lots of kennels for dragons (representing the airplanes). Turtledove's iceberg-ship program was named after the Real Life frozen carrier cited above.
*** More recently, they constructed the ''Stuck On You'' out of ''[[Duct Tape for Everything|freakin' duct tape]]''! It held together even better.
* The ''Pacific Princess'' from ''[[The Love Boat]]''.
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** it hadn't beaten the shit out of James May, and
** it hadn't had a carbon fibre toilet (and thus the nickname HMS Carbon Khazi).
* HMS Indefatigable, from the [[Horatio Hornblower]] mini-series as well as the books. About once an episode, in the first series, it appears unexpectedly over the horizon to save the day, to shouts of "It's the bloody Indy!" Cool boat indeed.
* Naturally, the [[Space Pirate]]-themed ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' has one in the form of the Gokai Galleon, the Red Ranger's personal mecha and the team's headquarters. It also [[Hero Forms The Head|forms the chest and head]] when they [[Combining Mecha|combine into]] [[Humongous Mecha|Gokaioh]]. Also worth mentioning are Gokai Pink cool sub (the Gokai Marine) and Gokai Silver's cool [[Time Machine|time jet]] (GoZyu Drill).
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== Tabletop Games ==
* This is pretty much the point of the ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' spinoff ''Dreadfleet''. One side has a floating temple, a steam-powered seagoing anvil, a giant pleasure barge fitted with an array of bound elementals, a pirate ship coated with bits of powerful sea creatures, and an Elven dragon roost with sails. The other? A floating ''vampire castle'', a ghost ship, a laser-firing pyramid with a hull, a ''mechanical squid'', and a ''zombie deep sea monster crewed by undead ratmen mad scientists''.
== Video Games ==
* [[Act of War]] [[Expansion Pack]], High Treason, allows you to build modern warships like the experimental [[wikipedia:Sea Shadow
* The ''[[Archimedean Dynasty]]'' & ''[[Aquanox]]'' games prominently features many of these.
* Pretty much the entire point of the [[Naval Ops]] series. You start your way with a destroyer hull and some really puny weapons, and through a lot of fighting and research and designing, hopefully end up with a Cool Ship tailored to your liking. Possibilities for high end Cool Ships include an ultra-high-speed missile frigate with enough gizmos to make Bond jealous, an old-fashioned battleship but with gravity and EMP shielding and a good enough loading system to blot out the sun with artillery fire, a battleship with a [[This Is a Drill|drill mounted on the hull]], a battleship with a [[Wave Motion Gun]], a submarine that looks like a torpedo-firing shark, and a aircraft carrier with a full wing of whatever kind of planes you want to kill things with.
** In addition, the bosses of that series mostly come in the form of superships. In the early game they tend to just be versions of usually pretty normal ship types except for the fact that they're a hundred or so times bigger than they should be. Whether that makes them cool ships itself is not certain, but the superships that appear later usually get stranger (and cooler). Cool superships include a giant [[This Is a Drill|drillship]], twin-hulled battleships, an [[Truth in Television|iceberg aircraft carrier]], and invisible battleships.
* The airships from the ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]'' series manage to roll
* The hydrocraft from ''[[Deadly Tide]]''.
* The Interceptor, the ''[[Spy Hunter]]'' series' [[Cool Car]], turns into a
* The ''Alaska'' class battlecruisers from ''[[Harpoon]]''.
* Arsenal Gear from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''. Yes, it [[Cool but Inefficient|lacked every single advantage]] of a Metal Gear, in alphabetical order. It was also a pretty swanky ship.
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** There's also the fact it was essentially a mobile staging platform for mass-production model Metal Gear RAYs, having a hangar for at least a dozen of them which would be controlled from safely inside Arsenal, making it quite a formidable and valuable naval asset.
* The King of Red Lions from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' is a cool-looking boat who doubles as your [[Ninja Butterfly]].
** Don't forget ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]'' where you get to customize Linebeck's/your very own
** Topping both those boats combined is the little motorboat in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]''. Said little motorboat has a Timeshift Stone inside of it that allows it to create a large field around it that causes the surrounding area to be the sea that it was in the past.
* ''[[Hostile Waters]] - Antaeus Rising'' has the ''Antaeus'', the prototype for the so-called "adaptive cruisers". Interesting in that, at the start of the game, it's 20 years old, and one of only two survivors of its class (the ''Antaeus'' was number 00, and the other was number 04, but 04 fails to respond to the surface order given before the game begins). The primary feature of the class is the ability to build combat forces on the spot using nanomachines. At the end of the game, {{spoiler|the ''Antaeus'' is turned into a makeshift nuke and sent on a kamikaze mission to stop a hostile race from escaping Earth. It's assumed nobody onboard (read: the captain, aka you, and the various brain profiles that make up your combat forces) survived. Your enemies, however, not only make it into space anyway, they also take over the creation engine of your ship. [[Downer Ending]], indeed.}}
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* ''[[Ace Combat]] 5'' has the Scinfaxi and Hrimfaxi submarines, which are also aircraft carriers somehow.
** Well, there really have been submarines that carried planes on board. The Japanese had about 50 during [[World War II|WWII]], and one of their sub-launched planes even managed to bomb the continental US. Nowadays, you'd probably launch UAVs.
** The Scrinfaxi and Hrimfaxi do launch aircraft, but only small combat-equipped UAVs for air defense during the times when they must surface. Probably a simplier solution than having to mount deck guns for the same purpose.
* ''[[Supreme Commander]]'' has several, depending on your preferred variety of boat. The UEF boasts the Atlantis submersible aircraft carrier and the Summit battleship that looks like a [[WW 2]] battleship updated with plasma weapons, the Aeon have the Tempest [[Military Mashup Machine|submersible factory battleship]] and the [[Macross Missile Massacre]] of the Torrent missile cruiser, and the Seraphim offering is the Hathuum battleship with onboard nuclear missile factory and launcher.
** The Cybran destroyer. Maybe not as impressively huge or powerful as the other examples, but it can ''crawl out of the water and walk on land'', essentially turning into a six-legged [[Humongous Mecha]], with naval-scale weaponry.<ref>That is, a very powerful direct-fire gun that rivals ''light artillery'' range. In other words, baserape for those without Tier 2 defense guns</ref>
** The first three races also have their own nuclear attack subs, capable of sitting in the ocean and building nukes to fire at enemies. The nukes were shorter ranged, but the ships also had the ability to launch cruise missiles either while waiting or to knock out enemy nuke defenses.
** The UEF cruiser also had on-board cruise missiles in addition to being largely immune to missiles itself. The Cybran Cruiser lacked the "land-legs" of the Destroyer but made up for it with it's Anti-Air, which could be converted to ground level unguided use, much like the T1 AA unit. Far more useful on the sea due to the larger size of enemy naval targets.
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* The Lemurian ship from ''[[Golden Sun]]''. For one thing, it can only be moved using [[Psychic Powers|Psyenergy]]. Later, it gains wings, which allow it to hover above the water (or land) using said Psyenergy. Later still, a cannon is installed
* The huge warship [[World of Warcraft|the Defias Brotherhood]] is building within the Deadmines.
* Chousokabe Motochika, the resident [[Pirate]] from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' has a nice boat. Sure it's made of wood, but that doesn't make it ''any'' less Badass.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' has four different boats to explore the ocean with; a stunt jetski, a heavily-armed sailboat, a speedy hovercraft with a charge beam, and a submarine. Each has a sort of minigame to control. (
* One of [[
* SS Lola from ''[[Grim Fandango]]''. It starts out as a rusty tramp steamer and, a year later and under new management, has been converted into the biggest floating hotrod ever.
* [[Command
** While [[Red Alert]] got most of the attention for ships, the Tiberian series has a few notable ones, namely the Massive Nod Cruisers in [[Tiberium Wars]] which have considerable range with their missiles (not to mention looking like a giant end of a scorpion's tail) and the Nod Hovercrafts, which look like giant flying manta rays.
* During the Chinese campaign in ''[[Age of Empires III]]: The Asian Dynasties'' you have a giant treasure ship instead of a home city.
* Since ''[[Suikoden IV]]'' is set in the Island Nations, it was only natural to have a
== Western Animation ==
* Spoofed on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' with the [[Show Within a Show]] "Knight Boat, the Crime-Solving Boat". Which you can drive in ''[[The Simpsons Hit
* Spoofed in ''[[Family Guy]]'' with the S.S. More Powerful Than Batman, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk Put Together.
* The Jammy Dodger from the animated film ''[[Flushed Away]]''.
* The titular submarine from ''[[Stingray (1964 TV series)||Stingray]]''.
* Thunderbird 4, from ''[[Thunderbirds]]''. Also a yellow submarine, also capable of doing pretty much anything underwater. Torpedoes, lasers, the works.
* From ''[[Pirates of Dark Water]]'', ''The Wraith'', vessel of the heroes, can detach its mainsail as a glider. Dread Pirate Bloth's ship, the Maelstrom, is as big as a modern supercarrier, and can swallow other ships whole. And is still fast enough to catch ''the Wraith''. On sail power.
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', several cool ships have shown up, the most (in)famous of which are the ''Behemoth'', the ''Eroean'', the ''Flaming Monkey'', the ''Hiltraud'', the ''Law'', the ''Lesbian Seagull'' and the ''Proletariat''.
* The [[Alternate History]] ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'' features battleships with 18-inch
** Everything but the ''Yamato'' class...although 20-inch and 21-inch-gun-armed battleships were seriously considered in real life, even before getting into the Napkinwaffen. Even so, still cool.
* ''[[Open Blue]]'' encourages players to make their own
* There is one drawn on the chalkboard in the background of ''[[Echo Chamber]]'''s ''[[Terrible Interviewees Montage]]'' episode.
== Real Life ==
* [[
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20100830204027/http://www.strand-craft.com/images/strand7.jpg Strand-Craft 122 Yacht] is so cool it comes with a [[Cool Car]].
* The Q-boat from the [[James Bond]] film was pretty badass in real life. Lacking any heavy weaponry but still possessing a fiber glass body and a massively overpowered engine that used water jets the tiny boat could hit
* The Zbur class hovercraft. Biggest in the world. Able to put ashore either three main battle tanks or ten APC with 140 troops. Is faster in the water then most main battle tanks are on roads. Being a militairy landing vehicle, it comes with an array of weaponry.
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