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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[El Cazador (Comic Bookcomics)|El Cazador]]''
* ''[[Marvel 1602]]'' is set in an early part of this period. [[Iron Man]] himself features.
 
 
== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* The ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6245901/1/Three_Years_At_Sea Three Years at Sea] is basically this {{smallcaps| [[Recycled in Space|on a Fire Nation ship!]]}}
 
 
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* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' (at least as far as visual aesthetics)
* ''[[HMS Defiant]]'' (movie, 1962)
* ''[[Mutiny Onon the Bounty]]'' there were at least 4 film versions: the best known are probably the ones from 1935 with Charles Laughton as Bligh and [[Clark Gable]] as Fletcher Christian; and 1962, with Trevor Howard as Bligh and [[Marlon Brando]] as Christian.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'', when the crew are on the wooden ship version of ''Enterprise'', on the holodeck. (The scene, of course, is a tribute to how [[Space Is an Ocean|the franchise owes this genre big-time]].)
{{quote| '''Picard''': Just imagine what it was like. No engines, no computers. Just the wind and the sea and the stars to guide you.<br />
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* The classic 1956 version of ''[[Moby Dick]]'' with Gregory Peck as Ahab.
* ''[[Carry On]] Jack'' was a parody of the genre.
* ''[[Master and Commander (Filmfilm)|Master and Commander]]'' is a good example of the more realistic portrayals of the era.
* [[Errol Flynn]]'s swashbuckling [[Pirate]] films, ''[[Captain Blood (Film)|Captain Blood]]'' and ''[[The Sea Hawk (Film)|The Sea Hawk]]'' (which has [[Adaptation Displacement|absolutely nothing to do with]] [[Rafael Sabatini|the book]]).
* [[Horatio Hornblower]]:
** ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043379/ Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.]'' (1951). Starring Gregory Peck in his prime in the eponymous role. Virginia Mayo played Lady Barbara Wellesley.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]''
* ''[[Moby Dick (Literature)|Moby Dick]]''
* The [[Aubrey-Maturin]] stories by Patrick O'Brien.
* ''[[Treasure Island]]'' in most of its incarnations.
* The ''[[Sharpe]]'' series by Bernard Cornwell features this whenever Sharpe has to get somewhere by sea, as in ''Sharpe's Trafalgar'' and ''Sharpe's Devil''.
* ''[[Robinson Crusoe (Literature)|Robinson Crusoe]]''
* The Alexander Kent ''[[Richard Bolitho]]'' series.
* Not a fighting ship, but still pretty much the same presentation of the sailors: Rudyard Kipling's ''[[Captains Courageous]]''
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== Music ==
* Juha Vainio song ''Laivat puuta, miehet rautaa'' is the trope name in Finnish.
* Parodied mercilessly in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s operetta ''[[HMSH.M.S. Pinafore (Theatre)|HMS Pinafore]]''.
 
 
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== Video Games ==
* As Age of Sail simulation games, ''[[Uncharted Waters (Video Game)|Uncharted Waters]]'' and its sequel ''Uncharted Waters: New Horizons'' use this trope quite a bit. Your captain and some of your mates appear far more clean and healthy than standard (owing to limited portraits and tiny sprites, mostly), but starvation, scurvy, piracy, and rats are all common. Unprepared players leaving European/North African waters for the first time are often in for a rude awakening.
* Two of the ''[[Total War]]'' series, namely ''Empire'' and ''Napoleon'', are set in or around the Age of Sail and are notably the first games in the series to have fully realised naval battles.
** ''Napoleon'' also features steamships and early ironclads, which led to the end of the Age of Sail, although they are not the strongest ships in the game. Notably, the Spanish ''Santisima Trinidad'' is able to blow away an ironclad with a few shots with its heavy guns.
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* [[Eyepatch of Power|Horatio]] [[Four-Star Badass|Nelson's]] [[Badass Army|Navy.]] Obviously.
** This cannot be overexaggerated. Fair portions of the Napoleonic Royal Navy were renowned for being dangerously brave and immensely tough, with figures such as Howe, Collingwood and Cochrane often taking on far superior odds and winning because they flat out refused to be afraid. Nelson was, of course, the King of this trope, as he supposedly had a death wish, exposing himself to deadly fire at every occasion, until he died at Trafalgar. Considering the wax-wane nature of his popularity, this might've be his [[Thanatos Gambit|plan all along.]]
** One of the reasons the Royal Navy became so feared is because it [[Took a Level In Badass]] (although it was pretty hard already) after King George II pulled a [[You Have Failed Me]] on Admiral John Byng ''[[Candide (Literature)|pour encourager les autres]].''
* John Paul Jones, one of the first heroes of the US Navy. When taunted by a British officer during a battle, he famously replied "I have not yet begun to fight!" Later in the same engagement, with his ship sinking, he was asked by the British if he had struck his colors (surrendered). He replied "I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike." His ship did sink, but not until he had captured the British ship and transferred his crew over. Upon learning that the British captain had been knighted due to his actions in the battle, he said "Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him."
 
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