Talk:List of fictional ships
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Hmm.. Is this wholly fictional ships, or semi-fictional ships (USS Dallas in Red October) as well? Elde 16:27, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hmm.. Most of these ships are going to be stubs, so should not the names point to work (print/film/play) in which the ship appears? AIUI Wikipedia policy is to avoid creating stub 'fan pages'. Elde 18:41, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Wholly fictional I think - an appearance of a ship as itself is just a part of its career, so works well in the ship's article, and quite a few already have such mentions. (It might be amusing to find all these and make a list of ships appearing in literature some day.) As for the articles, I can go either way; one could imagine in-depth article describing how the fictional ship is like and unlike the real ships on which it is based, connect to author's experiences, etc, and the material would be more nautical/technical than would make sense in articles on the literary works. Another argument is that a stub makes the linking work better, for instance if the literary article were long. I'd suggest letting this all percolate for a couple months, see if any fictional ship articles can grow into non-stubs. (I personally hadn't thought much about how many ships there are in fiction until recently.) Stan 22:57, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
The mention of the Rights-of-Man isn't really ficitonal. Given the era in whicht eh novel was set, I've always assumed it to be an Angliscization of the Droits de l'Homme a 74-gun ship-of-the-line during the French Revolutionary wars Varlet16 (talk) 02:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
If nobody objects, I was thinking about removing leading "the's" from ship names for consistency's sake - thus, "The Pequod" would become "Pequod." A very few ships have "the" as part of the name, though, such as USS The Sullivans, so I wouldn't change any of those I was aware of.Brecchie 02:55, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Name Change
This article should probably be at List of ships in fiction as some of the ships listed are real ships that have appeared in various fictional milieux rather than completely fictional creations. Djbrianuk 01:44, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Scope of Article
Is this article supposed to contain references only to ships that feature prominently in a work of fiction, or should it also include those mentioned only in passing? For instance, there are dozens of ships mentioned in Moby Dick, but only three mentioned here. I would like to see a comprehensive list fictional ships, but don't know if this is the place. Kirk Hilliard 03:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More Research Needed
The subject(s) of this article should have been more carefully researched. There are ships listed that are in fact actual or were actual ships. The USS Abraham Lincoln is an actual COMMISSIONED ship in the United States Navy and the Andrea Gail was an actual ship which sank in the REAL perfect storm in 1991. Just listing these in this so called list of fictional ships is disrespectful to those who are serving aboard the Lincoln and those who died on the Andrea Gail. This list needs to be closely reviewed and ships that do not fit, removed.
[edit] Earthbound
The SNES game Earthbound also has a submarine in it, but it's unnamed as far as I know. I still want to add it - should I? 81.243.19.164 14:14, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
