Most Memorable Movie Boats of All Time

We’ve all seen boats in movies and been inspired, awestruck, or terrified.

Movies can offer us a great escape from reality, and the boats we’ve seen in some movies are far from realistic! That’s the great thing about fiction, although some of these boats were all too real.

The Titanic – Obviously, everyone has heard of this one – both the movie and the ocean liner, which sank in near freezing waters in the Atlantic Ocean on April 14, 1912. This tragedy is proof that while boat insurance is a must-have, it can’t fix everything in the case of disaster. For the filming, a full-size model of the ship was constructed in a 17 million gallon tank on 40 acres of waterfront near Playas de Rosarito in Mexico. Only the starboard side of the constructed set was completed, which required some scenes to be reversed to allow for the appearance of the port side of the ship.Orca – You may not remember the name, but you surely will remember this boat, which appeared in the original Jaws movie in 1975. Much of the film takes place on board the Orca, and in the end, it’s tragically destroyed by the great white in one of the scariest movie scenes of all time. “Well, this is not a boat accident! And it wasn’t any propeller; and it wasn’t any coral reef; and it wasn’t Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.” – Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss.The Black Pearl – This is the fantastical ship from the famous movie trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean. As legend has it, Captain Sparrow was commissioned to sail the ship (then named the Wicked Wench) and its cargo from the West Indies to the Caribbean. After learning, however, that the “cargo” was West African slaves, Sparrow released them and in his rage the ship’s owner, Lord Cutler Beckett had the ship sunk. After serving out his prison term, Sparrow returned to raise the Wench, but his early attempts failed. It was only after receiving assistance from Davy Jones that the ship could be resurrected. The two agreed that Sparrow would owe Jones his soul after 13 years of captaining the ship, which he christened, The Black Pearl.The Red October – The starring role in the 1990 film, The Hunt For Red October was played by this massive (although wholly fictitious) Soviet submarine. Who can forget Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius or Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in this blockbuster hit? “The hard part about playing chicken is knowin’ when to flinch.” – Capt. Bart Mancuso, played by Scott Glenn.Das Boot – This film was one of the most expensive German films of all time, and the bulk of the film’s $15 million budget was spent constructing U-boats. Three different scale models were built for different shots and special effects, the largest of which was 35 feet. On that model, modified Ken dolls acted as stand-ins for human actors.

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