1. Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia
Literary Ships
HMS Achates
(64) Richard Bolitho's flagship during the brief
Peace of Amiens of 1803 in Alexander Kent's
Success to the Brave (1983).
Adventure II
A 350-tun merchantman from which Lemuel
Gulliver is marooned in Brobdingnag—the land of
the giants—in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
(1726). (See also Antelope.)
African Queen
A river launch in C. S. Forester's novel The African
Queen (1935), manned by the Cockney Charlie
Allnutt and Rose Sayer, a missionary's sister. The
two strike a blow for England by sinking the
German gunboat Königen Luise on Lake
Tanganyika in German Central Africa during
World War I. John Huston's 1951 film starred
Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
Amazon
The sailing dinghy owned by the Blacketts (the
Amazons) in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and
Amazons (1930), Swallowdale (1931), and other
books in the same series.
Antelope
Ship in which Lemuel Gulliver, "First a Surgeon,
and Then a Captain of Several Ships," is
shipwrecked on Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's
political satire Travels into Several Remote Nations
of the World, better known as Gulliver's Travels
(1726).
Arabella
Buccaneer Peter Blood's command in Rafael
Sabatini's Captain Blood novels: Captain Blood
Ships of the World: An
Historical Encyclopedia
Publication Data
Dedication
Foreword by Eric. J.
Berryman
Preface
Note
Literary Ships
Chronologies
Glossary
Bibliography
U.S. History
Western Civilization
World Civilizations

2. Riddle of the Sands (1906), often credited with
being the first espionage novel. The 1984 film
starred Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale.
(See also, in main text, Childers's own Asgard.)
USS Enterprise
A fictional spacefaring starship of the future (ca.
2151 to ca. 2379) from the mind of Hollywood
Executive Producer, Eugene "Gene" Wesley
Roddenberry (a.k.a. The Great Bird of the Galaxy)
1921-1991, commanded by Starfleet Captains:
Jonathan Archer, Jean-luc Picard, and most notably
James Tiberius Kirk. The USS Enterprise first
appeared in the original television series of the late
1960's, Star Trek (1966-1969). Nearly a decade
later the advertures of the ship and its valiant crew
were resurrected in a motion picture adaptation of
the show simply titled, Star Trek: The Motion
Picture (1979). The movie spawed nine sequels:
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982), Star Trek
III: The Search For Spock (1984), Star Trek IV:
The Voyage Home (1986), Star Trek V: The Final
Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country (1991), Star Trek: Generations (1994),
Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek:
Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis
(2002); three subsequent television series: Star
Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994), Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), Star Trek: Voyager
(1995-2001), and Star Trek: Enterprise
(2001-2005); and a plethora of original novels and
related literary works all based on the universe
developed for the classic show.
The original adventures of the intrepid starship
Enterprise became so popular with American
culture in the late 1970's (long after the series was
cancelled on network television and broadcast only
in syndication), that the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) commissioned its
first Space Transportation System shuttle OV-101
the STS Enterprise after the fictional vessel.
The universal theme to the wealth of teleplays,
screenplays, and novelizations written for the show
revolved around the United Star Ship Enterpise (in
its various iterations: NX-01, NCC-1701,
NCC-1701-A,B,C,D, and E) being a metaphor for
the Earth and its diversity of united peoples
peacefully working together to: Explore strange
new worlds, to seek out new life and new
civilizations, and to boldly go where no man, or no
one, has ever gone before...