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* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' ''Beyond Thirty'' (alternate title ''The Lost Continent''): the protagonist is the captain of a Pan-American Navy "aero-sub"—a submarine capable of [[Anti Gravity]] flight. Sadly, he doesn't have his vessel throughout most of the story, having been thrown overboard by a mutineer in the first chapter.

* The "SkyDiver" from ''[[UFO]]'' was a submarine whose entire front end was a JATO-boosted rocket plane called Sky One. At need, the SkyDiver would flood its rear ballast tanks until its bow pointed upward, and Sky One would launch...from ''under water''. (One wonders how the rocket plane was ''reattached'' to the submarine -- did it have to be refitted in a dry dock?)

* The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Flying Sub]] from ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'' was the coolest thing on the show.

* The General Systems Vehicles of [[Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks's]] [[The Culture|Culture]] novels qualify as, among other things, mobile factories. These ships are large enough to be home to billions of people and can crank out other massive ships, as described in '''Excession''.

* The Cylon Resurrection Ship in ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' is a mobile ''people'' factory.

** More ''Galactica:'' Tyrol actually had his crew build a whole Viper out of spare parts onboard the ''Galactica,'' and a damn good one at that. In fact, due to the availability of pretty much any material ''but'' metal, it was also their only stealth ship.

* Large capital ships in ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' are usually this, carrying not just fighters, but larger secondary craft (often smaller warships in their own right) as well. A particularly striking and unique example would be the (Terran-built) SOL, which is basically three such ships (two spherical 'ultra-battleships' and a cylindrical central section connecting the two barbell-style) usually linked together but capable of [[Detachment Combat|separating from each other]] if needed. That's right—a [[The Battlestar|battle star]] ''made of'' [[The Battlestar|battle stars]]!

* As mentioned, ''[[Babylon 5]]'' capital ships often carry fighter complements, as does the titular station.

* There were about three ships in ''[[Star Trek]]'' that fall under this sub-trope that we've seen—one of which was fictitious (even within the context of the series itself). They were the historically inaccurate recreation of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' in the episode ''Living Witness'', the ''Scimitar'' in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', and the Akira class. Other ships don't really count for this, as they primarily carry shuttle craft, which are neither good at nor designed for combat, nor is the compliment in any way considered "considerable" (usually half a dozen at most on the largest ships). The shuttles function more like rowboats for wooden sailing ships, small transports for when it wouldn't make sense to land the ship.

* Federation ships in ''[[Star Trek]]'' tend to be science-vessel/warship hybrids. There were a few exceptions, like the ''Defiant'' class, the ''Sabre'' class, and possibly the ''Prometheus''- and ''Akira''-class ships, which were dedicated warships.

* The ''[[Andromeda|Andromeda Ascendant]]'' takes large parts of [[The Battlestar]], and adds troop transport, science vessel, mobile factory, diplomatic vessel, planet killer and ''star destroyer'' to boot. All such ''Glorious Heritage''-class heavy cruisers have such capabilities.