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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.
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* Had [[Toei Animation]] accepted the [[Toon Makers Sailor Moon|Toon Makers bid]] for remaking ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' (in the infamous "Saban Moon"), instead of [[Di C]]'s dubbing, Americans would have gotten the Sailor Senshi battling evil by going sailing in space... on space-windsurfers... involving fights with such ships.
* ''[[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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* ''[[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 and Dragons]]'' [[Spelljammer]] setting. In this case, it wasn't interstellar space so much as inter''[[Another Dimension|planar]]'' space. Somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that the whole thing is done by [[A Wizard Did It|magic]]. Also, sails only provide
* The Eldar of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'''s ships use solar sails for propulsion... which means that if you play as them in the space combat spin-off, ''[[Battlefleet Gothic]]'', you'll have to keep track of which side of the table is sunward and adjust your movement rates accordingly.
** In the regular 40k, Dark Eldar skimmers fit the trope to a T. Especially fifth edition ones released in November 2011.
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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 built by the [[Feudal Future|Highborn faction]] as a [[
* At least one freighter model in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]'' has a strong resemblance to oceangoing ships.
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