# Best ships in the movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [June 10, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706 "2009-06-10T13:44:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/21 "2009-07-02T07:31:37Z")
didn’t the producers of Sand Pebbles actually have the vessel built for the film? ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Bakelite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Old\_Bakelite](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Old_Bakelite)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/22 "2009-07-02T12:07:10Z")
Who can forget (remember even?) the Faraday in Get Carter…[http://www.getcartertour.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/getcarter/northferry2.htm](http://www.getcartertour.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/getcarter/northferry2.htm) ---
**Author:** ![albertpachino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/albertpachino/32/946_2.png) [@albertpachino](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/albertpachino)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/23 "2013-06-10T21:01:47Z")
How did I miss this thread?? The R/V Belafonte from [Life Aquatic](http://amzn.to/2hXhPj1)! ![](http://cf.gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/upload/life-aquatic-nude-naked.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/24 "2013-06-11T03:53:53Z")
SS CLARIDON in The Last Voyage. Actually the old ILE DE FRANCE. The former owners were none to pleased about its use, either. . . ![](http://www.oceanliners.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/last-voyage.jpg) - - - Updated - - - [QUOTE=c.captain;14902]didn’t the producers of Sand Pebbles actually have the vessel built for the film?[/QUOTE] Yup. Cummins diesel powered, too. . . . ---
**Author:** ![john](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/john/32/5_2.png) [@john](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/john)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/25 "2017-11-09T14:42:19Z")
The Liparus was a supertanker owned by shipping magnate Karl Stromberg in the classic Bond film [The Spy Who Loved Me](https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Who-Loved-Roger-Moore/dp/B011MHD7MM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=gcaptaincom-20)! ![james-bond-tanker-liparus](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/7/71575b860cd19280e1367fa7fd422857322f8950.jpg) [![SY679](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/d/dc0dd70c8adb2eea80a999f349d1307f17ee47ae.jpg)](https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Who-Loved-Roger-Moore/dp/B011MHD7MM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=gcaptaincom-20) ---
**Author:** ![john](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/john/32/5_2.png) [@john](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/john)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/26 "2017-11-09T14:44:12Z")
And nobody nominates the Exon Valdez in [her epic cameo appearance](http://amzn.to/2yk0yGX)? ---
**Author:** ![DamnYankee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/damnyankee/32/514_2.png) [@DamnYankee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/DamnYankee)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/27 "2017-11-09T16:55:45Z")
![CB_FRAMESTORE_VFX_03](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/6/694630cd444dcb485017254a6ac5da4ceb675c2b.jpg) This scene from the “MOST ACCURATE” maritime movie ever made - [Contraband](http://amzn.to/2zuOggg)! Marky Mark spends his entire hitch cleaning carpets in the wheelhouse, the Wiper takes the blame for not enough oil in the CPP causing this allission with a terminal, and the Captain just yells at some lady on the dock afterword and that is the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![john](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/john/32/5_2.png) [@john](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/john)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/28 "2017-11-09T17:49:42Z")
> [@DamnYankee](#): > > Marky Mark spends his entire hitch cleaning carpets Mark Whalberg reads this forum and very much prefers to be called Mark Whalberg… or at least that’s what his PR rep told me when we were working on the [Deepwater Horizon movie](http://amzn.to/2AvWWTR). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DamnYankee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/damnyankee/32/514_2.png) [@DamnYankee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/DamnYankee)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/best-ships-in-the-movies/1706/29 "2017-11-09T18:15:57Z")
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