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[[File:spacetitanicspf0.jpg|frame|[http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwhy/70795.html Not the regular Titanic, but three of the several spaceship ones.]]]
As has been established, [[Space Is an Ocean]], and in fiction, naval and maritime terms are often applied to spaceships. Some works, however, take things further, and make their characters go
While, in [[Real Life]], there are proposals for spacecraft with solar sails, this isn't [[Truth in Television]], because they'd still be just spacecraft-with-sails; these are literal ''boats'' in space, with all the shape and features that implies.
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A subtrope of this is the idea of a space ''Titanic'', an oddly common meme. [[What Did You Expect When You Named It?|They are invariably doomed.]]
Interestingly, Space Ships don't go after [[Space Whale
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== Anime ==
* Particularly abundant in the
** ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]'' takes place aboard a risen-from-the seas and retrofitted-for-space [[World War II]] battleship Yamato.
** ''[[Captain Harlock]]'' has both
*** Not only does ''Arcadia'' appear to have the back-end of a galley, she can effectively function as a submarine.
* The anime ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' has none other than Captain Nemo take a Yamato-esque New Nautilus into space to battle a gigantic Atlantaean Flying Saucer named Red Noah. The scene in which the New Nautilus first breaks free of the ground it is imprisoned in is a direct and clear homage to the similar scene in the aforementioned Yamato.
* The anime ''Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight'' begins with a scene showing lots of futuristic ships plying the
* ''[[Space Carrier Blue Noah]]'', AKA ''Thundersub''.
* The Hyper Galaxy Dai-Gurren from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' looks much like a ''HUGE'' aircraft carrier.
** As does the [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]], and the ''Explorer'' from the vehicle-team [[Voltron]].
* Had [[Toei Animation]] accepted the [[Toon Makers Sailor Moon|Toon Makers bid]] for remaking ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' (in the infamous "Saban Moon"), instead of [[
* ''[[Sol Bianca]]'' revolves around a space "submarine", which "dives" and "surfaces" to enter and leave its cloaking effect.
* ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'' has the Mother Vanguard, which has broadside beam cannons, a sail that mounts more cannon plus missiles and a high-speed flight system, and a masthead statue of a woman made of gold. This fits with the series' general pirate aesthetic, even if the ship was built before the heroes decided to become [[Space Pirate
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* [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' takes this to the extreme, with a 70/30 blend of 18th century ships combined with technology. It works quite well.
* ''[[WALL-E]]'' featured the Axiom, a "Starliner" with a design evoking that of a sea-going cruise ship.
* The Fhloston Paradise hotel in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' actually does double as both a space and a (hovering-just-above-the-) sea vessel. It looks like a futuristic version of a steam paddle boat. The steam-stacks, however, may be just for
* There is a B-Movie called ''[[Message from Space]]'', which has this very thing, but takes it to the extreme. These space sailors are wooden Renaissance-era ships! Oh, and it also includes [[Humongous Mecha]], [[Planet Looters]], [[Space Pirates]], and even a planet with ''rocket engines''! Also has a musket-toting [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|droid]].
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has not only the new series [[Christmas Episode]] "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 CS Voyage of the Damned
** Voyage of the Damned could be justified, though, since the aliens purposely made it to look like the Titanic, and many other spaceships in the series look nothing like boats. In other words, it doesn't look like a boat because space is an ocean, it looks like a boat because they wanted it to. The aliens, that is, not just the script writers.
* ''[[Star Fleet]]'' gives us the Skull, a space going pirate ship complete with sails.
* Gokai Galleon from ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', the [[Space Pirate]] ''[[Super Sentai]]''. It's the Red Ranger's mecha, the central piece to the [[Combining Mecha]], and the team's ride.
* Commander Sisko from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' built a lightship that employed a solar sail for propulsion - Bajorans had even traveled [[Faster-Than-Light Travel|faster than light]] with these contraptions. At one point in the episode, Sisko even talks about "tacking" with his solar sailing space
** One can argue about whether it should be called tacking, but you *can* use solar gravity to sail 'upstream' against the sunlight. (I almost said the solar wind, but those are charged particles, not the photons solar sails use.)
== Tabletop Games ==
* This was the whole point of the ''[[Dungeons
* The Eldar of ''[[Warhammer
** In the regular 40k, Dark Eldar skimmers fit the trope to a T. Especially fifth edition ones released in November 2011.
* ''[[GURPS]]'': Spaceships discusses solar sails. You can even give space boats wooden hulls if the setting demands it or the characters are incredibly desperate.
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* ''[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/cousinted/oits/series.php Oceans in the Sky]'' features, very prominently, a sailing ship capable of space travel as a plot point.
* {{spoiler|Grandpa}}'s battleship in ''[[Homestuck]]'', though The Medium [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|is not exactly space]]. The white and black armies have such ships as well.
== Web Original ==
* Some of the first fencraft in ''[[Fenspace]]'' were actual sailing ships, ranging from yachts to crabbers to former naval vessels, before being turned into spacecraft with [[Applied Phlebotinum|handwavium]]. There's even a submarine fielded by the U.S. Navy.
== Video Games ==
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* The [[RPG]] ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]''.
* The airships in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Galaxy]]''? Usually found in the sky, the game has Bowser's airship fleet flying through space in quite a few of the levels, notably Bowser Jr's Airship Armada.
* ''[[Vega Strike]]'' has [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/Vessel:Hidalgo Hidalgo]. It's
* At least one freighter model in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]'' has a strong resemblance to oceangoing ships.
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