History Main / CoolBoat

Under no circumstances confuse this with a [[VisualNovel/SchoolDays Nice Boat]]... which is something entirely different and more disturbing. Though it may depend if you like the boat... And while it is always [[OpeningTheSandbox cool]] to GetOnTheBoat in [=RPGs=], the two tropes don't necessarily overlap.

* Red Shield's headquarters in ''Anime/BloodPlus'' appears to be a huge cruise ship
* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6'': The anime's namesake sub.

* The ''Tuatha De Danaan'' from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is a state-of-the-art submarine featuring numerous missile silos, a small air force for land-based operations, and a contingent of the most advanced HumongousMecha known to mankind. It's also a ''stealth'' submarine, meaning it has sonar-dampening hull and an ultra-silent magnetohydrodynamic drive. If that doesn't scream "cool", I don't know what does.
** By [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ the 3rd Super Robot Wars Z]] though, [[spoiler:it gets converted mid-way into a CoolStarship]]

* The ''Solaris'' in ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold''

* The Katsura family yacht in ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''. [[MemeticMutation NICE BOAT!]] The original Nice Boat may count, too... if you like the boat.
* Eri from ''Manga/SchoolRumble'', being TheOjou, owned one (anime only).

* From ''Manga/{{Zipang}}'' we have DDG-182 ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDG-182_Mirai Mirai]]'', a Japanese Self-Defense Force ''Yukinami''-class guided missile destroyer (which is a modified variant of America's ''Arleigh Burke'' destroyers) sent back to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII by an undetermined phenomenon. As an early 21st century warship in the mid 20th century battlefield, ''Mirai'' terrifies ''both'' the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Navy. In addition to that, ''Mirai'' also has a [[CoolPlane cool scout-recon aircraft]], the MVSA-32J Umidori.
** ''Mirai'' experienced a kind of {{Defictionalization}} a few years after the series started, when the JMDF introduced a nearly identical class of ship--the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/atago_class_destroyer Atago]]'' guided missile destroyers.

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* In the Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} ''Literature/YoungBeichan'', the heroine may use a magical boat to reach the hero in time to stop his wedding.
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* The HMAS ''Hammersley'' from ''Series/SeaPatrol''

* The ''VideoGame/ArchimedeanDynasty'' and ''Videogame/{{Aquanox}}'' games prominently features many of these.

* While ''Red Alert'' got most of the attention for ships, the Tiberian series has a few notable ones, namely the Massive Nod Cruisers in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'' which have considerable range with their missiles (and looking like a giant end of a scorpion's tail) and the Nod Hovercrafts, which look like giant flying manta rays.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' introduced several awesome ships with its new focus on more naval combat, with veterans (the Allied Aircraft Carrier and the Soviet Dreadnoughts), as well as the new [[MilitaryMashupMachine Assault Destroyer]], a huge gunship with tank treads, and most of the Empire of the Rising Sun's navy counts.

* ''VideoGame/HeroOfTheKingdomII'': The {{player character}} has to gather resources and personnel to construct one of these in order to chase down the pirates who kidnapped his little sister.

* VideoGame/HydroThunder'' has a hi-speed jet boat race across all kinds of exotic locations including other planets and dimensions, where you pilot prototype racers including one built from alien technology.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''.: Arsenal Gear Yes, it [[CoolButInefficient lacked every single advantage]] of a Metal Gear, in alphabetical order. It was also a pretty swanky ship.
** Being armed with memes is just as advantageous as being armed with nukes.
** Also, [[spoiler:its improved version, Outer Haven]] from ''Metal Gear Solid 4''.
** There's also the fact it was essentially a mobile staging platform for mass-production model Metal Gear [=RAYs=], having a hangar for at least a dozen of them which would be controlled from safely inside Arsenal, making it quite a formidable and valuable naval asset.

* The airships from the ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' series manage to roll Cool Boat, CoolAirship, ''and'' CoolStarship all into one flying pirate ship.

* The SS Tea Cup in ''VideoGame/WarioLand 1'' and 2, arguably. Large enough to serve as a world of the game, and if maps are to be believed, something like a few hundred to a thousand feet in length and height, it's got plenty of rooms, mooks, treasure and entire rooms made of solid stone. Oddly, it's a lot smaller in the intro cut scene.

* The huge warship [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft the Defias Brotherhood]] is building within the Deadmines.
* ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'': One of Yoshi's transformations in ''Yoshi's Universal Gravitation'' is a boat that navigates though the waters you get to tilt in some stages.

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* Dennis from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' has a yacht owned by his father, where he hosts a party that is ostensibly for the protagonist.
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* ''{{Webcomic/Phantomarine}}'': [[https://www.phantomarine.com/comic/01-the-horizon-line The Mantaluna]].
* ''Webcomic/PufferAndClarissa'': [[https://pufferandclarissa.com/comic/018/ Sharon's warships]].

* Any of Max Ray's Assault Weapon Systems from ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}''.

* The "Little Toot" segment of ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime''.

* From ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'', ''The Wraith'', vessel of the heroes, can detach its mainsail as a glider. Dread Pirate Bloth's ship, the Maelstrom, is as big as a modern supercarrier, and can swallow other ships whole. And is still fast enough to catch ''the Wraith''. On sail power.
** Bonus points for that it's apparently made with the skeleton of some sort of Behemoth!
* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', the pirate Sea Hawk has the Solar Sailor, a pirate ship that can operate in water.. [[IfItSwimsItFlies and in the air]], being able to fly thanks to solar-powered sails. His ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' version also sails a number of cool-looking ships too - pity about [[PyroManiac his obsession with setting them on fire]]...

* The titular submarine from ''Series/{{Stingray 1964}}''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'': In addition to the [[CoolBike Cyclotron]], they also another vehicle that launches like a missile from the [[CoolPlane Turbokat]], but inflight, turns into a jet ski rather than a motorcycle.
* Thunderbird 4, from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''. Also a yellow submarine, also can do anything underwater. Torpedoes, lasers, the works.