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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Edmund_Fitzgerald Edmund Fitzgerald]]: A sunken ship that inspires {{Filk Song}}s.
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* Bermuda Triangle: A fan community where shipping just... disappears. There's no official ban, but any questions related to ships tend to go unanswered.
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* HMS Hood: An old and venerable ship that gets into Ship-to-Ship Combat with a newly-popular and quickly-climbing ship and is obliterated so quickly and thoroughly that it almost never comes up again, leaving behind scant few traces of its existence.
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* Clipper Ship: A ship that moves along very quickly, but is highly precarious.
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** Another option: a ship involving a [[DroppedABridgetOnHim Bridget-type character]].
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*** Or between a patriot and their flag (eg. [[LesMiserables Enjolras/Flag]])
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*** [[TheHuntForRedOctober Red October]]: The one that tops them all. You'll never know before it hits you.
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*** [[TheHuntForRedOctober [[Film/TheHuntForRedOctober Red October]]: The one that tops them all. You'll never know before it hits you.
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## A conspicuously attractive actor or actress whose appearance in a role makes their character skyrocket in popularity in the shipping world and/or instantly turns an unsympathetic character into a DracoInLeatherPants (e.g. Tom Felton was arguably The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships for Draco Malfoy; AlanRickman ''definitely'' was for Snape.) See also SelfFanservice.
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## A conspicuously attractive actor or actress whose appearance in a role makes their character skyrocket in popularity in the shipping world and/or instantly turns an unsympathetic character into a DracoInLeatherPants (e.g. Tom Felton was arguably The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships for Draco Malfoy; AlanRickman Creator/AlanRickman ''definitely'' was for Snape.) See also SelfFanservice.
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* Christening: The event that makes a ship canon.
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* Costa Concordia: Someone [[IncrediblyLamePun gets laid quickly]] with catastrophic consequences.
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* CaptainObvious: The one fan in every fandom who makes "shocking" and "insightful" observations about his favorite ship that the rest of the fandom has already been discussing for quite some time.
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* Scapa Flow: A fan community which a large number of ships call home.
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* Outrigger: A BetaCouple pairing that supporters of other ships encourage because it helps keep their own afloat.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Yeonpyeong Shelling of Yeonpyeong]]: When fans of the random CrackPairing that everyone hates attack a major, well-established ship solely for the purpose of [[{{Troll}} trolling]].
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** Or it could refer to a seemingly unsinkable 'ship which is suddenly and decisively sunk with no way to bring it back.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic Battle of the Atlantic]]: A ''very'' long battle between two "big tent" shipping camps that ultimately ends in a solid victory for either side.
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** Alternatively, another name for [[{{Homestuck}} the Rosemary ship]].
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty Washington Naval Treaty]]: An agreement within a fandom to ''not'' support two obviously opposing pairings so as to prevent ship wars.
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** A ship between two [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight unimportant characters]] that is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome played up to be The Yacht]].
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** [[Series/DeadliestCatch Alaskan Crab-Fishing Boat]]: A Fishing Boat that exists in works that are especially dangerous to shipping.
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* Micro Ship: When one of the partners is small. Examples: [[LightNovel/ToraDora Taiga]], [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]], [[MacrossFrontier Klan Klein]], [[LovelyComplex Ohtani Atsushi]], and the protagonist of {{Yotsunoha}}. Compare Tall Ship.
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* Micro Ship: When one of the partners is small. Examples: [[LightNovel/ToraDora Taiga]], [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]], [[MacrossFrontier Klan Klein]], [[LovelyComplex Ohtani Atsushi]], and the protagonist of {{Yotsunoha}}.''{{Yotsunoha}}''. Compare Tall Ship.
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*** ''{{Pokémon}}'' shipping community refugee, I assume?
*** Either that or Yu-Gi-Oh. Have you ''seen'' their [[strike:list]] Registry?
*** Either that or Yu-Gi-Oh. Have you ''seen'' their [[strike:list]] Registry?
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*** ''{{Pokémon}}'' ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' shipping community refugee, I assume?
*** Either that orYu-Gi-Oh. ''Franchise/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}''. Have you ''seen'' their [[strike:list]] Registry?
*** Either that or
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** Gigayacht: A Yacht that exists only to trump other Yachts, no matter how ridiculously over the top it has to be to achieve that, such as [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Adult Nanoha]]x[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].
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* Sextant: An instrument used to keep a Ship on course. Stop giggling.
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* Bounty: A ship where the leadership makes unpopular decisions, leading the rank-and-file shippers to mutiny.
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* Mary Rose: A previously-stable ship that, upon being one or both of its characters being {{Retool}}ed, sinks due to flaws created when new features fail to mesh with the original design(s).
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## A ship that becomes the dominant focus of a show whose original premise was non-romantic.
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** Panel Beating: Hammering the raw materials (conversations, looks, curiously appropriate poses, casual meetings) into "proof" for a Ship. Most often used in an {{AMV}}.
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* Lordship: Matching up members of the British peerage, or perhaps other sorts of lords, such as a TimeLord with a DimensionLord.
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## A ship where the character really just wants to [[OedipusRex kill his father and sleep with his mother]].
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** Gigayacht: A Yacht that exists only to trump other Yachts, no matter how ridiculously over the top it has to be to achieve that, such as [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Adult Nanoha]]x[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].
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Every fandom [[{{Shipping}} ships]], known fact. Often there is ShipToShipCombat, and sometimes there are a few {{Ship Sinking}}s, causing fans to AbandonShipping.
The tropers saw this, and decided that there were not enough puns. So they gathered their collective insanity, and built '''The Ship Yard'''!
TheShipYard contains JustForPun entries that probably wouldn't fit the ThreeRulesOfThree, and thus aren't exactly tropes.
[[IThoughtItMeant Just in case it's not perfectly clear]]: This has nothing to do with a facility for producing sailing vessels.
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!!The products of the TV Tropes Official Ship Yard include:
* Aircraft Carrier: Ship that serves as a launch pad for {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s. Official Aircraft Carriers may also have a sizable complement of Torpedo Bombers.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_%28CVN-68%29 Nimitz]]: An Aircraft Carrier with more Torpedo Bombers than you can shake a stick at.
* Alang: The name of the place where old, once big and proud, but now outdated ships end.
* Anti-Ship Missile (also called Air-to-Sea Missile): when WordOfGod simply states that a particular ship isn't going to happen (Compare ShipSinking), but can come from other shippers and anti-shippers.
* Air Ship:
## A particularly fanciful ship.
## Shipping between characters that are pilots, or work on a plane or flying base.
## Shipping {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s.
## Shipping one or both members of Music/{{Air}}.
* Allied Ship: [[ShipMates A ship that supports another]] (perhaps by removing a person from an official ship to justify a {{fanon}} one).
* Anti-Shipping Aircraft: Someone or something that fires a lot of Anti-Ship Missiles.
** Alternatively, a Torpedo Bomber, when dealing with older companies that are less up to date.
* Apprentice Ship: A ship that interprets a mentor/pupil relationship as romantic.
** May be called an Intern Ship if it sprouts from a boss/employee relationship.
* The Argo: A ship of mythological heroes, especially Greek ones.
** Alternatively, a ship that takes place in the background story, ''before'' the main action of the film/series.
* Aviation Cruiser: A ship with heavy armament of its own, supplemented by a complement of on-board helicopters for anti-submarine work and aircraft for air defence.
* [[WorldWarThree Backfire Raid]]: A massed assault by Anti-Ship Aircraft, capable of sinking entire convoys. Even the most vigilant, Aegis System-equipped fleets can expect to suffer losses from a well-executed raid.
* Barque: Shipping two canine characters.
* Battlecruiser: A ship based on a DatingCatwoman-style dynamic.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland Battle of Jutland]]: An epic battle between multiple ships that ends with a PyrrhicVictory for one ship.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar Battle off Samar]]: Horribly mismatched ShipToShipCombat that the underdog nonetheless somehow manages to win.
** Like if [[Manga/{{Naruto}} NaruHina]] and [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo×Rukia]] became canon.
* Battle Ship:
## Alternative name for FoeYay.
## Particularly aggressive Shipping fandom, eager to engage in ShipToShipCombat.
*** Yamato-class Battleship: Biggest, most popular, and most well-armed ship in the fandom.
*** Iowa-class Battleship: Economy version of the Yamato, not as impressive as its bigger cousin, but faster and more practical to support. Even when all other battleships are moored or sunk, the Iowa will still be at sea, though often for reasons its builders envisioned only as a secondary mission, if at all.
*** Hindenburg-class Battleship: A ship that both needs to be highly aggressive to survive and requires far more support than can ever be gathered. Hence, it never came into existence.
## Shipping [[BattleCouple two warriors]].
** Pocket Battleship: Like the above, but with more wank involved.
* Becalmed Ship: A relationship [[HappilyMarried so stable]] some people find it boring.
* Bismarck: People put every effort necessary into sinking this ship.
* Brinkman Ship: A ship that always causes trouble and where shippers try to gain support of their ship by [[{{Troll}} any]] [[DieForOurShip means]] [[FanDumb neccessery]].
* Bull Ship: [[CrackPairing Not going to happen]].
** Or a ship where one or both of the shipped is [[ALoadOfBull a bull/are bulls]].
*** Or vaguely bull-like creatures, such as minotaurs, [[spoiler: Ichigo's recent Hollow transformation]] in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', and random people wearing horns on their head.
* Canoe: A ship that is perfectly functional, yet tiny, largely ignored, and whose fans must work with little help from the official canon.
** Kayak: A canoe that receives sudden Word of God confirmation
*** Creeker: A kayak going through some very rough waters.
*** Freestyle Kayak: A kayak where one or both characters are very acrobatic.
* Canon Fire:
## When a ship is {{Jossed}} by canon events. See ShipSinking.
## In-series jokes at the expense of a particular ship.
* {{Canon}} Ship: Another term for the OfficialCouple.
** {{Kanon}} Ship: Anything involving Ayu from ''{{Kanon}}''. Uguu~
** Loose Canon Ship: A ship where one of the parties is an obvious AxCrazy or {{Yandere}}.
* [[{{Canon}} Canoneer]]: A fan who supports only pairings present within {{Canon}}, often to the point of attacking anyone who writes or draws any other ship.
** Shark: A fan who attacks fans of recently [[ShipSinking sunk]] ships.
* The Catamaran: A pair that is shipped because they end up captive together a lot.
** Alternatively, a ship where one or both involved are cats or part-cat.
** The [[KatamariDamacy Katamaran]]: A ship that rolls over and absorbs all other ships. See for example Mike and Gillian in ''Stranger in a Strange Land''.
* Censor Ship: Shipping in a way that gets rid of the {{Squick}}-inducing elements.
* Champion Ship: Pairing two top-ranked and decorated athletes/martial artists/soldiers/gamers, possibly from [[FoeYay rivaling schools/dojos/armies]].
** Or pairing a woman with the knight who carries TheLadysFavour.
* Classification Society: A group of fans dedicated to creating the Registry (which see) and ensuring that all ships are built to code (i.e. opponents of CrackPairing and {{Jossed}} ships in all their forms).
* Coastal Defence Ship: A ship that protects the fandom from coming under attack from other fandoms.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_coastal_defence_ship_Ilmarinen Ilmarinen]] And [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_coastal_defence_ship_Vainamoinen Vainamoinen]]: "That fandom must be quite the naval power: even their Lightships are armed with big guns!"
* Containerized Shipping (a.k.a. Isotainer Ship): Shipping communities that [[BrokenBase break up the fandom]] into non-overlapping compartments. Example: ''SchoolRumble'', with the Tenma shippers vs. the Eri shippers.
* Contraband Shipping: Alternative name for CrackPairing.
** Or a ship where no one's in a band?
* Convoy: A number of Ships whose fans mutually support one another in order to ensure that ''their'' particular Ship survives.
* Cool Ship: Alternate name for The Yacht. Sadly, [[CoolShip already in use for something else]].
* Coracle: An inconspicuous and unlikely ship that ends up surviving the series run against all odds.
* Corvette: A ship of two characters who spend a lot of time in fast cars together.
## Alternately, a ship that springs up very fast.
## Shipping a character and the car.
* Costa Concordia: Someone [[IncrediblyLamePun gets laid quickly]] with catastrophic consequences.
* Cougar Ace: A ship that ALMOST sinks, to the point where nearly all of its fans Abandon Shipping, but is [[http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys somehow rescued]]. Does not have to involve an attractive older woman and/or a [[AlphaCentauri handsome young cyborg]].
* Cruise Ship:
## An OfficialCouple.
## A Ship with more than two participants, anything from a threesome to a whole-cast-hell-throw-in-a-crossover-or-twenty orgy.
## One with [[CrackPairing Tom Cruise involved.]]
* Damn the Torpedoes: The cry of shippers who ignore Torpedoes and Anti-Ship Missiles.
* Danger To Shipping: A fandom that is averse to the practice in general, and will kick you out for bringing it up.
* Davy Jones Locker: A forum/LJ community/message board/what-have-you for shippers of sunk ships.
* Death Star: A ship which would completely destroy a fandom or work if it ever became canon.
* Destroyer: In collaborative works, a ship that fires Torpedoes at other ships.
** Alternatively, a ship skilled at defending itself from Submarine attacks.
** Or a ship so radical that it carelessly wrecks the whole setting.
** Or a ship (seemingly) designed to sink lots of smaller ships, for instance between the two most shipped characters (or their parents).
* Dictator Ship: A ship jam-packed with master/servant relationships and the like.
** Alternately, how you'd categorise [[AdolfHitler Hitler]] / [[JosefStalin Stalin]] slashfic.
* Dinghy: The pairing of two {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s. For example, [[HappyTreeFriends Flippy x Flaky]].
* Distress Call: A sequence of events that show that a ship is sinking and that the fans should prepare to AbandonShipping.
** Distress Beacon, a.k.a. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Position-Indicating_Radio_Beacon EPIRB]]: What is usually sent out if a ship sinks so quickly that there's very little time to AbandonShipping.
* Dreadnought: The most powerful ship. Slow, but capable of destroying huge ships with a single volley, and capable as well of resisting ''many'' Air-to-Sea Missiles. Or alternately, a very bold shipping effort (i.e., [[IncrediblyLamePun dreads nought]]).
* Dredging The Ship: When a ship that has previously been [[ShipSinking sunk]] is suddenly resurrected by the author after having a [[FlipFlopOfGod change of heart]].
* Drydock: When a Ship is sunk but later reappears, sans author approval, it's been hiding here.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW DUKW]] ''pron. "duck"'': a ship that's been PutOnABus.
* EA Bryan: A ship that may have been put together okay, but [[RelationShipWritingFumble complete]] and [[StrangledByTheRedString total incompetency]] in handling it results in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster#Quality_of_men spectacular self-destruction.]]
* Ehime Maru: A Ship that is sunk by a Submarine, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision not in the usual way and not on purpose]].
* Ekranoplan: The ship of all ships, even more than the Dreadnought. Hard, tough, powerful and with all the speed and sneakiness of the Hydrofoil. Using conventional naval warfare, this ship ''will not go down'', no matter how much {{Canon}} fire you throw at it, and it's pretty much vulnerable only to Flak Artilleries pointed at the ship.
** Or: Seems a pretty silly ship at first, but then takes off.
* Enemy Ship:
## Another alternative name for FoeYay.
## A ship that [[ShipToShipCombat rivals]] the shipper's {{OTP}}.
* Escape Raft: A back-up ship to support in case the shipper's {{OTP}} is destroyed, e.g., "If Bob/Lucy doesn't work out, Bob/Jessica is my Escape Raft."
* Express Shipping: Pairs thrown together in a big hurry in response to canon developments or the introduction of new characters.
** Or a pairing that fall in love ''very'' quickly.
* The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships:
## A character that's been [[LauncherOfAThousandShips shipped with every member of the cast, gender, orientation, age and views notwithstanding]]. And don't think they'll [[AnythingThatMoves stop with the show's character cast]]. Often overlaps with TheSmurfettePrinciple in that the [[TheChick lone female member]] of an ensemble will inevitably be shipped with all members of her FiveManBand (and then some).
## A conspicuously attractive actor or actress whose appearance in a role makes their character skyrocket in popularity in the shipping world and/or instantly turns an unsympathetic character into a DracoInLeatherPants (e.g. Tom Felton was arguably The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships for Draco Malfoy; AlanRickman ''definitely'' was for Snape.) See also SelfFanservice.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal#First_Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal.2C_November_13 First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]]: Wild, chaotic, every-ship-for-itself ShipToShipCombat at point-blank range in the middle of the night.
* Fishing Boat: A ship that actively goes looking for evidence to support it.
* Flag Ship: An OfficialCouple that the series revolves around, or is otherwise heavily promoted by official sources.
** Or any pairing between characters from ''AxisPowersHetalia''.
** Or a romance between two patriots.
*** Or between a patriot and their flag (eg. [[LesMiserables Enjolras/Flag]])
* Flak Artillery: A segment of the fandom that insists in the possibility of a ship regardless of the WordOfGod; i.e., something that fires against Torpedo Bombers. Also known as SAM Battery or AA Battery.
** Aegis System: A particularly influential and well-coordinated segment of fans who possess this.
* Fleet: A series where fans are known to have groups of ships, not just one. Best example is ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', where one is likely to be something along the lines of a Naruto×Hinata, Sakura×Sasuke, Shikamaru×Temari, and Neji×Tenten shipper.
** Imperial Fleet: A series where multiple such possibilities are [[ShipTease made/suggested in canon]]. Examples: ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' and ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', which makes/implies connections with Shizuru×Natsuki, Haruka×Yukino, Chie×Aoi, Arika×Mashiro, and Mai×Mikoto. [[GirlsLove Notice a pattern?]]
* Freak Wave: Immense amount of supporters of one particular and particularly wacky ship appearing within a short timespan. Powerful enough to get even a Canon Ship to struggle.
* Free Shipping:
## Shipping possibilities provided by the characters in the story.
## Shipping possibilities provided by the creators themselves.
* Friend Ship: Shipping two characters who claim to be JustFriends or LikeBrotherAndSister.
* Freudian Ship:
## An A×B ship where Character A mistakes Character B for a third Character C. (Example: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith×Cloud×Zack]].)
## A not-quite-official ship that's very heavy in {{subtext}}.
## A ship where the character really just wants to [[OedipusRex kill his father and sleep with his mother]].
* Full of Ship: A fan whose ShippingGoggles are welded on, and can literally think of ''nothing else'' when viewing works.
* Garbage Scow: An unpopular ship that is constantly dumped on by most of the fandom.
* Generation Ship:
## A MayDecemberRomance ship.
## A ship based on the principle of GenerationXerox (his dad and her mum ''should'' have got together, but didn't, so...).
## [[Film/StarTrekGenerations Kirk×Picard]].
## [[{{Degrassi}} A teen couple whose divorced parents are also dating each other]].
* Ghost Ship:
## A pairing with the minor obstacle of one side being dead (or [[HesJustHiding "just hiding"]]) at the time.
## The CrackPairing that wouldn't go away, or the DracoInLeatherPants ship that refuses to die despite the [[ShipSinking best efforts of the author and other fans]].
## A ship involving undead characters. Most ships in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' qualify for this definition of Ghost Ship by the very nature of the show.
** Flying Dutchman: A Ghost Ship that actually outlives the run of the series.
* The Good Ship Lollipop:
## A ship that happens to TastesLikeDiabetes.
## An alternate name for ToyShip.
* Going Down With The Ship: [[AteHisGun An extreme reaction]] to seeing one's favourite ship sunk. In other words, taking DieForOurShip rather too literally.
** Or, slightly more reasonably, to stop watching the show when one's ship is sunk.
* The Good Shipherd: A member of an online community who is skilled at maintaining peace between differing shippers. Alternately, a character within a work who keeps the peace when TheMatchmaker and the ShipperOnDeck disagree.
* Grand Admiral: A {{BNF}} who reached that status through frequent shipping of a particular pairing.
* Gunship:
## Shipping two [[TheGunslinger Gunslingers]].
## Shipping two members of [[MildlyMilitary the military]].
## Shipping a [[CargoShip Badass and]] [[ICallItVera his gun]].
## Anything that requires a shotgun wedding to work.
* Hard Ship:
## A not-quite-CrackPairing that nevertheless requires a lot of effort to justify.
## A pairing involving one or more rock-based, metallic, or crystalline character.
## A particularly explicit slashfic involving... Does the obvious really need to be stated?
* The Harbour: A point in canon where both members of the ship are no longer seen together a lot.
* Heaven Ship: A pairing confirmed by putting two characters TogetherInDeath.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hringhorni Hringhorni]]: A ship between MarySue and MartyStu.
* Home Port: The work/fandom to which a particular ship belongs. Should the ship involve any kind of {{Crossover}}, it is the fandom where the ship has more support.
* Hurricane: A storm or other weather-based event that manages to destroy at least one ship.
* Hydrofoil: Very evasive ship with a low radar profile known for being extremely difficult to sink with Torpedoes, but seldom lasts long in ShipToShipCombat. Basically, a weaker Ekranoplane.
** Alternatively, a ship where one of the characters is the {{foil}} of the other.
* Iceberg: A plot event that causes a Ship Wreck. The damage is often mistaken for that of a Torpedo.
* Ice Breaker: A ship between two {{Yandere}}s, breaking through everything that get in their way.
** Alternatively, a ship that requires DefrostingIceQueen.
* [[TheLonelyIsland I'm On a Boat]]
** A ship that is meant to parody shipping.
** A ship between two [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight unimportant characters]] that is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome played up to be The Yacht]].
** When [[SelfInsertFic the shipper]] is [[PerverseSexualLust part of the ship]] or is a ShipperOnDeck or a Navigator.
** Shipping Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike.
* Intelligence Ship: Shipping secret agents.
** Also an alternative name for PairTheSmartOnes.
** "Okean" class trawler -- a ship involving Soviet agents.
* Ironclad: An unpopular ship, constantly under attack from rivals, that manages to remain afloat because despite not being official canon; it has a massive body of supporting evidence to act as armor.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads Battle of Monitor and Merrimack]]: An epic battle between two Ironclads that causes ripples throughout the fandom and beyond.
* I Saw These Ships Come Sailing In
** What you can say when [[IKnewIt you knew]] that somebody was going to ship a certain pair, and it happens.
** A {{Christmas}} themed ship.
* Jetsam: Events in canon [[FanonDiscontinuity ignored by certain shippers]] to keep sailing.
* The Junk: A ship that results from all the other characters being shipped already so the fans decide they should just PairTheSpares.
** Alternately:
### A pairing of two Chinese characters.
### A pairing that invokes MeLoveYouLongTime or the inverse.
** [[Creator/RudyardKipling The Junk and the Dhow]]: Shipping a Chinese character with an Arab.
* Kin Ship: [[IncestIsRelative Exactly What It Says On The Tin]].
* Lake Boat: An obvious ship between minor characters that has a small fandom but no competition.
* Landing Craft: A ship whose fans invade Internet forums in order to promote it.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_craft_tank Landing Craft, Tank]]: Armored support that fans bring with them in the form of evidence in favor of the ship(s) that they support.
** D-Day: What happens when a large number of fans of a particular ship (or ships) invade an Internet forum.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship Liberty Ship]]: A ship that, once formed, quickly gains a large amount of evidence in favor of it.
* Life Boat: Alternative name for LastMinuteHookUp.
* Life Jacket: Whatever arguments or reasoning shippers need to get to their Escape Raft.
* Life Ship: When real-life actors who play the characters involved in a popular ship get together, such as the romance that briefly appeared to be brewing between Daniel Radcliffe (HarryPotter) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) in early 2008.
** Another example would be the confirmed relationship between Milo Ventimiglia ([[Series/{{Heroes}} Peter Petrelli]]) and Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet). Somewhat creepy, because they play uncle and niece on the show.
* Lighthouse: A character used as a matchmaker, especially if they say "IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy" when the usual alternative is making that character DieForOurShip.
** Lightship: Shipping two characters who both [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy want their beloveds to be happy]].
*** Or any ship involving [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Yagami]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London Lloyd's of London]]: A character created to be paired up with the "out" partner of a sunk ship.
* Long Distance Shipping: Shipping two characters who never even met in canon. There is a very high chance that it will be sunk when they do meet officially.
* Lost in Shipping: CharacterDerailment by the fans in favor of their personal ship. A whole shipping crate full of [[DracoInLeatherPants leather pants]] for the EnsembleDarkHorse and/or WhiteHairedPrettyBoy.
## Random inclusion of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' characters in a relationship.
* Love Craft: A ship involving two [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].
* Love Boat:
## A show that encourages shipping. A lot. The greater [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the gender ratio]] of the core characters in a show in either direction, the more likely the show will become a Love Boat (but not ''The'' [[TheLoveBoat Love Boat]], mind).
## A ship whose fans always include sex in their discussions of it.
## An extremely popular ship.
## A pair that, in canon, is as together as together can be. Impossible for other shippers to ignore, but if you know shippers, you know that won't stop them (see Lost in Shipping).
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania Lusitania]]: A [[ShipSinking Sunken Ship]] leads to a whole lot of ShipToShipCombat.
* Man-o-War: A ship that, if present, automatically [[ShipSinking sinks]] another one. If it doesn't happen in canon, those who support it will try to make it work in fandom.
* Man Overboard: Alternative name for CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds.
* Mary Celeste: All characters involved in the ship [[PutOnABus disappear without warning]].
* Merchant Ship: A ship promoted metatextually in order to [[MerchandiseDriven sell more licensed merchandise]]; e.g., because it appeals to a PeripheryDemographic with more money than the core audience.
* Micro Ship: When one of the partners is small. Examples: [[LightNovel/ToraDora Taiga]], [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]], [[MacrossFrontier Klan Klein]], [[LovelyComplex Ohtani Atsushi]], and the protagonist of {{Yotsunoha}}. Compare Tall Ship.
* Missing the Boat: A ship that has been [[ShipTease teased]], but never resolved one way or the other due to stall tactics, leaving the UnresolvedSexualTension unresolved because, for example, one or both parties was TwiceShy and [[CanNotSpitItOut Could Not Spit It Out]]. [[CodeLyoko Yumi×Ulrich]], for example.
* Mother Ship: The Mother of All Ships in the respective franchise, such that sinking the Mother Ship simultaneously destroys the stability of the shipping fandom (generally by ruining delicate PairTheSpares and ShipMates permutations).
** Alternatively, any pairing involving a HotMom.
** Or shipping characters from [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 the]] ''[[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Mother]]'' [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} series]] together.
* Mutiny: Supporters of the same ship have [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation different ideas]] on how the ship should be handled and portrayed, leading to infighting within the ship's fan base.
** Alternatively, ShipToShipCombat between different writers of a collaborative work.
* My Ship Sails In The Morning: A ship supported by [[TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames King Harkinian]].
* Naglfar: A particularly {{Squick}}y ship. Named for a ship made out of dead people's toenails from Norse Mythology.
* Naval Arms Race: When [[ShipToShipCombat rival]] shippers repeatedly come up with new ships and examples to support their ships to outdo each other.
* Navigators: The people who play the characters in any given ship.
* [[VisualNovel/SchoolDays Nice Boat]]: A ship that ends in a MurderTheHypotenuse situation.
* Nuclear-Powered Ship: A ship involving {{Keet}} and GenkiGirl. Energies are trememdous.
* Paddle Boat:
## A ship with a strong S&M vibe, either because of the power dynamics involved, the sheer violence of the FoeYay, the fact that one of the parties involved just happens to wear [[FetishFuel fetishy stuff]], or, well, anything, really.
## Any ship based on Mark Twain's works.
* Patrol Boat: A pairing supported by an extreme minority of the fandom which an author writes to see whether or not other people like it. If done successfully, it could be promoted to a Cool Ship.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_harbor Pearl Harbor]]: When a neutral ship joins in a [[ShiptoShipCombat shipping war]] due to a massive unprecedented attack by one of the sides.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Perfect_Storm Perfect Storm]]: A nasty combination of events, usually occurring at a particularly important point in the plot, that threaten at least one ship (if not more).
* Phalanx:
## The last defensive measure a shipper has against attempts at ShipSinking by Anti-Ship Missiles.
## A furious barrage of counter-arguments that support/defend one's ship - only effective against one or two attacks not multiple (See Backfire Raid).
* Pirate Ship:
## A ship in which one participant sweeps in and steals the other from their current S.O.
## A ship involving characters who are [[{{Pirate}} pirates]].
## Where fans dub their own dialogue onto clips and post them on Website/YouTube to support their Ship. (No, I don't know if it really happens. I'd be more surprised if it doesn't, though.)
* Plague Ship:
## The least popular ship in a fandom, or just one that will cause an InternetBackdraft.
## A ship that finally gets together in an otherwise drama/action-centric series, and then triggers an outbreak of other pairings, gradually pushing the whole thing towards the romance genre (if it's not all part of wrapping up the series).
## A ship that, when brought together or even hinted at, causes the show to JumpTheShark.
* Premiership: Pairing heads of state (TruthInTelevision: Bush/Blair).
* Prepaid Shipping: Supporting a pairing when one or both of the characters haven't actually made an appearance yet (including characters from a series that hasn't started). Makes shipping more convenient when the time comes, since people don't think to question a pairing that's already well-established.
* Sailing Ship: When old people get shipped.
** Alternatively: A ship that's been around too long already.
** Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope: Preliminary materials that provide support for such a ship.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_ship Q-Ship]]: A ship dismissed as unlikely and therefore harmless by the rest of a fandom busy with ShipToShipCombat that suddenly deploys the massive firepower of [[WordOfGod Authorial approval]] from seemingly nowhere.
** Alternatively, any ship involving a character played by John de Lancie.
** Or any ship involving a certain JamesBond character.
** [[CrackPairing Or both.]]
** Another option: a ship involving a [[DroppedABridgetOnHim Bridget-type character]].
* The Queen Mary:
## In FanFic, when the author matches a canon character with MarySue.
## Alternatively, when the fanfic author treats Mary Sue as the LauncherOfAThousandShips.
* Railway Ferry: Shipping in ''TheRailwaySeries''.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: When one ship's fanbase decides on one last suicidal attack on their perceived opponents. LargeHam [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Klingon captain optional]].
* Reconnaissance Ship: Shipping two [[StalkerWithACrush Stalkers With A Crush]].
* Red Light Quarter: Keeps Shippers distracted for a while.
* Reefer Ship: Cooler than a Cool Ship.
* Relation Ship: See Kin Ship.
* The Registry: A comprehensive list of all significant ships in a fandom.
* ReportingName: What you call a ship when you don't know what the fandom calls it.
** Or, if you're like me and just refuse to memorize all those stupid names that the shippers think up for these things. I mean, it's one thing if it's just the names jammed together, but the "(insert-something-here)shipping" ones get annoying fast...
*** ''{{Pokémon}}'' shipping community refugee, I assume?
*** Either that or Yu-Gi-Oh. Have you ''seen'' their [[strike:list]] Registry?
* Rocket Ship: Er, a ship involving rockets...
** Or [[{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]]!
** Or involving astronauts. Most of the RealLife ones end up well (although only one is widely considered to have ever actually ended up in the [[ZeroGSpot logical conclusion]]), and then there was that incident with the diaper...
** Maybe a ship that is so Canon and mammothly obvious that nobody bothers to touch it. It's out of their league. Then both characters are put on bus out and we can only assume they are living out their happily married days on the moon.
* Rogue Wave: A plot twist that comes out of nowhere and sinks at least one ship.
* Royal Caribbean: Pairing up at least one non-pirate character from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
* Run the Ship Aground: Where a ShipTease is stretched beyond believability.
* Scholar Ship: A ship involving very intelligent people.
* Scuttling the Ship: When a character sinks a ship by killing the person they're shipped with.
* Shanghaied: When fans are forced into supporting a ship against their will.
* Shantyman: A fan whose pairing of choice inspires fellow fans to accompany him or her with their own fanwork based on said pairing.
* Ship Ahoy!: The first suggestions of a potential shipping.
* Shipboard: Forum where nothing but pairings in fiction is discussed.
* Ship of Fools:
## PluckyComicRelief×{{Cloudcuckoolander}}, a match made in heaven. Like [[Manga/{{Beelzebub}} Hanazawa and Kanzaki.]]
## A ship you would have to be crazy to back.
## A ship involving two jesters.
##[[{{Persona3}} Minato Arisato]]×[[{{Persona4}} Seta Souji]]
* Ship Keeper: A fan who persists in their minority ship, or becomes its main supporter.
* Shipping and Handling:
## The delicate logical contortions fans often go through in order to make a [[{{OTP}} favorite ship]] "work."
** Panel Beating: Hammering the raw materials (conversations, looks, curiously appropriate poses, casual meetings) into "proof" for a Ship. Most often used in an {{AMV}}.
## Shipping motivated mainly by the fans being alone in bed with the door locked.
* Shipping Crate: The [[CargoShip container]] in which you ship your [[CompanionCube cargo]].
** Or LockedInAFreezer with romantic overtones. Like the time Tony and Ziva got locked in a shipping container in ''{{NCIS}}''.
* Ship of the Line: Heterosexual pairing in a fandom overrun by SlashFic.
* Shipping Company:
## Merch manufacturer supporting one particular ship.
## Matchmaking friends.
* Shipping Costs: The inevitable increase in angst after a pairing becomes official in order to maintain dramatic tension.
* Shipping Department: A forum/LJ Community/chat room set up for fanfic authors writing a ship, so they can collaborate.
* The Shipping Forecast: Predicting either the most popular ships or the canonical pairing of a new character.
* Shipping News: New developments that affect the state of a ship, whether [[OfficialCouple positively]] or [[ShipSinking negatively]].
* Ship Shape: the current state of a ship, both in canon and among the fandom.
** Alternatively, a work where every character is dating exactly who you think they should.
* Ship-to-Shore Calls: When fans send messages to the WordOfGod supporting a non-canon ship to try to convince him [[DieForOurShip he's doing]] [[RelationshipWritingFumble it wrong]].
* Ship Wreck: ShipSinking that isn't a direct effort from the creators. Could be a SelectiveSquick moment, or just the actions of the fandom that causes others to AbandonShipping.
* Ship of the Damned: A ship long thought wrecked but comes back with vengeance anyway, despite one of the characters being dead or foretold to die.
## Alternatively, a ship between dead bad guys.
* Ships of the Desert:
## Shipping [[StarWars anyone on Tatooine]].
## Shipping [[Manga/{{Naruto}} the Sandsiblings]], [[BrotherSisterIncest sometimes with each other]].
## [[{{Dune}} Paul×Chani]].
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: A ship with the minor obstacle that those involved have generally not interacted much, if at all, and might not even know about each other's existence.
* The Shipyard:
## The original series, where a ship originates from.
## Fanfic sites, where ships are built and carefully manufactured.
## This page.
* Smuggling Ship: Carries a whole lot of [[CrackPairing illegal drugs.]]
* Sonar Operator
## A member of a ship who monitors the activities of other ships and submarines.
## A character who ships fellow cast members.
** Going Active: Actively asking the submarine what it is doing, sometimes to the point of annoyance.
* [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Space Hulk]]: An old ship, long since sunk, which nonetheless retains a surprising number of rabid fans. Don't go near it, or they'll come crawling out of the ventilation system to shred you!
* Space Ship
## Sci-fi shipping.
## Shipping between characters arguably in the same continuity, even if on different planets.
* The S.S. Minnow: A ship which seems cute and fun at first, but eventually runs aground and becomes tiresome. See also "OldShame".
* Star Ship: Shipping real-life celebrities, especially if one also ships their characters with each other. (For example, if a Harmony shipper wants Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson to hook up.) Related to Life Ship.
* Stealth Ship: A ship you don't see coming until it becomes canon. More a concept than a reality at this present time, owing to to the fact that any canon ship is inevitably already being shipped by someone, somewhere.
** Meagan and Prof. Fleinhardt in ''NUMB3RS'' probably count as an example. Seriously, who saw that coming?
* Steamboat: A ship whose primary audience appeal lies in the fact that both (or all) participants are ''extremely'' sexy. Similar but not identical to The Yacht.
** A romance between elderly characters.
** A pairing in [[{{Steampunk}} Victorian England]].
* The Submarine:
## An [[WordOfGod Author]] or
## A [[ExecutiveMeddling company]] that is particularly aggressive towards ships in general, or ships that don't fit canon. [[HarryPotter J.K. Rowling]] and RumikoTakahashi are good examples of the Author Version.
** Akula/"Typhoon" Class: The world's largest Submarines, capable of firing Nuclear Torpedoes.
*** [[TheHuntForRedOctober Red October]]: The one that tops them all. You'll never know before it hits you.
** Seawolf class: The world's quietest submarine, which you don't hear at all unless it's attacking ships. It also charges a lot for its work.
** "Alfa" class: Very fast and very noisy submarine -- tends to be very obvious when present, but has a tougher hull than one would think.
** U-Boat: A particularly nasty Submarine.
*** That or a German one.
*** Film/DasBoot: Will fight any non-canonical ships the best they can, but ultimately lose against the fans, and can be lucky if they make it out of the war without going under altogether.
** K-Boat: An ostensibly dangerous submarine that spends most of its time malfunctioning and blowing up of its own accord rather than threatening ships.
** Boomer: Stealthy submarine that only reveals its existence when it launches its battery of Nuclear Torpedoes.
** Soviet Submarine Exercises: Moving ships involving characters from ''{{Dollhouse}}'', who are "submerged" so to speak.
* Suez Canal: An often handwaved plot device that allows for otherwise highly unlikely shippings to work.
** Post-Suezmax: A ship so mind-bogglingly unlikely that even the Suez Canal can't get it anywhere.
* Sunk by Chiron: A ship that sank because one of the shipped characters dies before they could get together.
* Sunken Ship: A ship that [[ShipSinking has been hit by a Torpedo]].
* Supertanker:
## A ship that carries a whole lot of emotional cargo.
## A ship that required lots of booze to happen.
* Tall Ship: Both partners are at least 5'10".
* Time Ship: When two characters, one of which lived earlier than the other, are shipped. E.G.: [[HarryPotter Hermione×Young!Remus]]
* The Titanic: Alternative name for a ship that's a FanPreferredCouple. Appropriately, it gets [[ShipSinking sunk]] by an Iceberg.
* A Torpedo: What a story launches when it takes a turn for no other purpose than to sink a ship.
** Nuclear Torpedo: Something that not only sinks a ship, but takes out [[FanDisillusionment a lot of the fandom]] with it.
** Supercavitating Torpedo: An impossibly fast torpedo that some ships may not even be aware of before it strikes. More attentive ships can usually only cry [[OhCrap "Oh......[Expletive]!"]] before it detonates.
* Torpedo boat: A fandom member that really enjoys sinking other peoples ships (may be attached to a ship, fleet or convoy themselves).
* Township: Shipping the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of population centres. [[ATaleOfTwoCities Dickens liked LondonxParis]], but nowadays [[PortmanteauCouplename NY-Lon]] is a popular one.
* Tramp Steamer: Ships involving a loose [[DoubleStandard woman]] (or a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold pretty]] one).
* Das Traumschiff: A ship too kitschy to be even halfway believable.
* Trimaran: Being crazy enough to support a LoveTriangle.
* Trireme: A ship that [[IncrediblyLamePun works on several levels]].
* Tugboat: A small, powerful ship that helps the main ship. Frequently used in numbers of two to four to be really sure.
* Uncharted Waters: A ship that's initially strange and unheard of in the fandom. Almost always a CrackPairing, but can become The Yacht.
* USS Indianapolis: A ship that's just been hit with a massive Torpedo and has sunk, but devoted shippers still crowd around the wreckage despite repeated attacks from sharks in the form of WordOfGod and the fandom itself trying to make the rest of the shippers AbandonShipping.
* Warship: Dramatic romance at wartime. [[GoneWithTheWind Rhett×Scarlett]] and the like.
* When The Ship Comes In: The long-awaited moment when one's favorite pairing gets a RelationshipUpgrade.
* When the Ship Hits the Fan:
## A popular ship becomes canon but [[PlotTumor dramatically changes the tone of the series]], and/or angers a lot of fans, including fans of the ship. A good example would be the [[RomanticPlotTumor Gwen/Kevin]] pairing of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''.
## A couple gets together in canon, then breaks up.
## Something happens that causes a large proportion of fans to AbandonShipping.
## A single development that impacts a large number of ships at once.
* Wor Ship: When the fandom abides by one specific set of ships and any other pairings are considered heresy.
** Alternately, shipping two gods/divine beings.
* Vasa: A Ship whose builder goes to great lengths to decorate and advertise it-but structurally, it's so poorly thought out that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship) it promptly sinks itself]], no iceberg or torpedo needed.
* Viking Funeral: A [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove deathbed confession of love]]. Named for the tradition of [[BurnBabyBurn cremating a dead warrior on a burning ship]].
* The Yacht: The CoolShip of shipping. A ship running on the RuleOfCool, like the hypothetical Wolverine×Shego pairing suggested elsewhere on this wiki.
** Gigayacht: A Yacht that exists only to trump other Yachts, no matter how ridiculously over the top it has to be to achieve that, such as [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Adult Nanoha]]x[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].
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The tropers saw this, and decided that there were not enough puns. So they gathered their collective insanity, and built '''The Ship Yard'''!
TheShipYard contains JustForPun entries that probably wouldn't fit the ThreeRulesOfThree, and thus aren't exactly tropes.
[[IThoughtItMeant Just in case it's not perfectly clear]]: This has nothing to do with a facility for producing sailing vessels.
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!!The products of the TV Tropes Official Ship Yard include:
* Aircraft Carrier: Ship that serves as a launch pad for {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s. Official Aircraft Carriers may also have a sizable complement of Torpedo Bombers.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_%28CVN-68%29 Nimitz]]: An Aircraft Carrier with more Torpedo Bombers than you can shake a stick at.
* Alang: The name of the place where old, once big and proud, but now outdated ships end.
* Anti-Ship Missile (also called Air-to-Sea Missile): when WordOfGod simply states that a particular ship isn't going to happen (Compare ShipSinking), but can come from other shippers and anti-shippers.
* Air Ship:
## A particularly fanciful ship.
## Shipping between characters that are pilots, or work on a plane or flying base.
## Shipping {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s.
## Shipping one or both members of Music/{{Air}}.
* Allied Ship: [[ShipMates A ship that supports another]] (perhaps by removing a person from an official ship to justify a {{fanon}} one).
* Anti-Shipping Aircraft: Someone or something that fires a lot of Anti-Ship Missiles.
** Alternatively, a Torpedo Bomber, when dealing with older companies that are less up to date.
* Apprentice Ship: A ship that interprets a mentor/pupil relationship as romantic.
** May be called an Intern Ship if it sprouts from a boss/employee relationship.
* The Argo: A ship of mythological heroes, especially Greek ones.
** Alternatively, a ship that takes place in the background story, ''before'' the main action of the film/series.
* Aviation Cruiser: A ship with heavy armament of its own, supplemented by a complement of on-board helicopters for anti-submarine work and aircraft for air defence.
* [[WorldWarThree Backfire Raid]]: A massed assault by Anti-Ship Aircraft, capable of sinking entire convoys. Even the most vigilant, Aegis System-equipped fleets can expect to suffer losses from a well-executed raid.
* Barque: Shipping two canine characters.
* Battlecruiser: A ship based on a DatingCatwoman-style dynamic.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland Battle of Jutland]]: An epic battle between multiple ships that ends with a PyrrhicVictory for one ship.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar Battle off Samar]]: Horribly mismatched ShipToShipCombat that the underdog nonetheless somehow manages to win.
** Like if [[Manga/{{Naruto}} NaruHina]] and [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo×Rukia]] became canon.
* Battle Ship:
## Alternative name for FoeYay.
## Particularly aggressive Shipping fandom, eager to engage in ShipToShipCombat.
*** Yamato-class Battleship: Biggest, most popular, and most well-armed ship in the fandom.
*** Iowa-class Battleship: Economy version of the Yamato, not as impressive as its bigger cousin, but faster and more practical to support. Even when all other battleships are moored or sunk, the Iowa will still be at sea, though often for reasons its builders envisioned only as a secondary mission, if at all.
*** Hindenburg-class Battleship: A ship that both needs to be highly aggressive to survive and requires far more support than can ever be gathered. Hence, it never came into existence.
## Shipping [[BattleCouple two warriors]].
** Pocket Battleship: Like the above, but with more wank involved.
* Becalmed Ship: A relationship [[HappilyMarried so stable]] some people find it boring.
* Bismarck: People put every effort necessary into sinking this ship.
* Brinkman Ship: A ship that always causes trouble and where shippers try to gain support of their ship by [[{{Troll}} any]] [[DieForOurShip means]] [[FanDumb neccessery]].
* Bull Ship: [[CrackPairing Not going to happen]].
** Or a ship where one or both of the shipped is [[ALoadOfBull a bull/are bulls]].
*** Or vaguely bull-like creatures, such as minotaurs, [[spoiler: Ichigo's recent Hollow transformation]] in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', and random people wearing horns on their head.
* Canoe: A ship that is perfectly functional, yet tiny, largely ignored, and whose fans must work with little help from the official canon.
** Kayak: A canoe that receives sudden Word of God confirmation
*** Creeker: A kayak going through some very rough waters.
*** Freestyle Kayak: A kayak where one or both characters are very acrobatic.
* Canon Fire:
## When a ship is {{Jossed}} by canon events. See ShipSinking.
## In-series jokes at the expense of a particular ship.
* {{Canon}} Ship: Another term for the OfficialCouple.
** {{Kanon}} Ship: Anything involving Ayu from ''{{Kanon}}''. Uguu~
** Loose Canon Ship: A ship where one of the parties is an obvious AxCrazy or {{Yandere}}.
* [[{{Canon}} Canoneer]]: A fan who supports only pairings present within {{Canon}}, often to the point of attacking anyone who writes or draws any other ship.
** Shark: A fan who attacks fans of recently [[ShipSinking sunk]] ships.
* The Catamaran: A pair that is shipped because they end up captive together a lot.
** Alternatively, a ship where one or both involved are cats or part-cat.
** The [[KatamariDamacy Katamaran]]: A ship that rolls over and absorbs all other ships. See for example Mike and Gillian in ''Stranger in a Strange Land''.
* Censor Ship: Shipping in a way that gets rid of the {{Squick}}-inducing elements.
* Champion Ship: Pairing two top-ranked and decorated athletes/martial artists/soldiers/gamers, possibly from [[FoeYay rivaling schools/dojos/armies]].
** Or pairing a woman with the knight who carries TheLadysFavour.
* Classification Society: A group of fans dedicated to creating the Registry (which see) and ensuring that all ships are built to code (i.e. opponents of CrackPairing and {{Jossed}} ships in all their forms).
* Coastal Defence Ship: A ship that protects the fandom from coming under attack from other fandoms.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_coastal_defence_ship_Ilmarinen Ilmarinen]] And [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_coastal_defence_ship_Vainamoinen Vainamoinen]]: "That fandom must be quite the naval power: even their Lightships are armed with big guns!"
* Containerized Shipping (a.k.a. Isotainer Ship): Shipping communities that [[BrokenBase break up the fandom]] into non-overlapping compartments. Example: ''SchoolRumble'', with the Tenma shippers vs. the Eri shippers.
* Contraband Shipping: Alternative name for CrackPairing.
** Or a ship where no one's in a band?
* Convoy: A number of Ships whose fans mutually support one another in order to ensure that ''their'' particular Ship survives.
* Cool Ship: Alternate name for The Yacht. Sadly, [[CoolShip already in use for something else]].
* Coracle: An inconspicuous and unlikely ship that ends up surviving the series run against all odds.
* Corvette: A ship of two characters who spend a lot of time in fast cars together.
## Alternately, a ship that springs up very fast.
## Shipping a character and the car.
* Costa Concordia: Someone [[IncrediblyLamePun gets laid quickly]] with catastrophic consequences.
* Cougar Ace: A ship that ALMOST sinks, to the point where nearly all of its fans Abandon Shipping, but is [[http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys somehow rescued]]. Does not have to involve an attractive older woman and/or a [[AlphaCentauri handsome young cyborg]].
* Cruise Ship:
## An OfficialCouple.
## A Ship with more than two participants, anything from a threesome to a whole-cast-hell-throw-in-a-crossover-or-twenty orgy.
## One with [[CrackPairing Tom Cruise involved.]]
* Damn the Torpedoes: The cry of shippers who ignore Torpedoes and Anti-Ship Missiles.
* Danger To Shipping: A fandom that is averse to the practice in general, and will kick you out for bringing it up.
* Davy Jones Locker: A forum/LJ community/message board/what-have-you for shippers of sunk ships.
* Death Star: A ship which would completely destroy a fandom or work if it ever became canon.
* Destroyer: In collaborative works, a ship that fires Torpedoes at other ships.
** Alternatively, a ship skilled at defending itself from Submarine attacks.
** Or a ship so radical that it carelessly wrecks the whole setting.
** Or a ship (seemingly) designed to sink lots of smaller ships, for instance between the two most shipped characters (or their parents).
* Dictator Ship: A ship jam-packed with master/servant relationships and the like.
** Alternately, how you'd categorise [[AdolfHitler Hitler]] / [[JosefStalin Stalin]] slashfic.
* Dinghy: The pairing of two {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s. For example, [[HappyTreeFriends Flippy x Flaky]].
* Distress Call: A sequence of events that show that a ship is sinking and that the fans should prepare to AbandonShipping.
** Distress Beacon, a.k.a. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Position-Indicating_Radio_Beacon EPIRB]]: What is usually sent out if a ship sinks so quickly that there's very little time to AbandonShipping.
* Dreadnought: The most powerful ship. Slow, but capable of destroying huge ships with a single volley, and capable as well of resisting ''many'' Air-to-Sea Missiles. Or alternately, a very bold shipping effort (i.e., [[IncrediblyLamePun dreads nought]]).
* Dredging The Ship: When a ship that has previously been [[ShipSinking sunk]] is suddenly resurrected by the author after having a [[FlipFlopOfGod change of heart]].
* Drydock: When a Ship is sunk but later reappears, sans author approval, it's been hiding here.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW DUKW]] ''pron. "duck"'': a ship that's been PutOnABus.
* EA Bryan: A ship that may have been put together okay, but [[RelationShipWritingFumble complete]] and [[StrangledByTheRedString total incompetency]] in handling it results in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster#Quality_of_men spectacular self-destruction.]]
* Ehime Maru: A Ship that is sunk by a Submarine, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision not in the usual way and not on purpose]].
* Ekranoplan: The ship of all ships, even more than the Dreadnought. Hard, tough, powerful and with all the speed and sneakiness of the Hydrofoil. Using conventional naval warfare, this ship ''will not go down'', no matter how much {{Canon}} fire you throw at it, and it's pretty much vulnerable only to Flak Artilleries pointed at the ship.
** Or: Seems a pretty silly ship at first, but then takes off.
* Enemy Ship:
## Another alternative name for FoeYay.
## A ship that [[ShipToShipCombat rivals]] the shipper's {{OTP}}.
* Escape Raft: A back-up ship to support in case the shipper's {{OTP}} is destroyed, e.g., "If Bob/Lucy doesn't work out, Bob/Jessica is my Escape Raft."
* Express Shipping: Pairs thrown together in a big hurry in response to canon developments or the introduction of new characters.
** Or a pairing that fall in love ''very'' quickly.
* The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships:
## A character that's been [[LauncherOfAThousandShips shipped with every member of the cast, gender, orientation, age and views notwithstanding]]. And don't think they'll [[AnythingThatMoves stop with the show's character cast]]. Often overlaps with TheSmurfettePrinciple in that the [[TheChick lone female member]] of an ensemble will inevitably be shipped with all members of her FiveManBand (and then some).
## A conspicuously attractive actor or actress whose appearance in a role makes their character skyrocket in popularity in the shipping world and/or instantly turns an unsympathetic character into a DracoInLeatherPants (e.g. Tom Felton was arguably The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships for Draco Malfoy; AlanRickman ''definitely'' was for Snape.) See also SelfFanservice.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal#First_Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal.2C_November_13 First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]]: Wild, chaotic, every-ship-for-itself ShipToShipCombat at point-blank range in the middle of the night.
* Fishing Boat: A ship that actively goes looking for evidence to support it.
* Flag Ship: An OfficialCouple that the series revolves around, or is otherwise heavily promoted by official sources.
** Or any pairing between characters from ''AxisPowersHetalia''.
** Or a romance between two patriots.
*** Or between a patriot and their flag (eg. [[LesMiserables Enjolras/Flag]])
* Flak Artillery: A segment of the fandom that insists in the possibility of a ship regardless of the WordOfGod; i.e., something that fires against Torpedo Bombers. Also known as SAM Battery or AA Battery.
** Aegis System: A particularly influential and well-coordinated segment of fans who possess this.
* Fleet: A series where fans are known to have groups of ships, not just one. Best example is ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', where one is likely to be something along the lines of a Naruto×Hinata, Sakura×Sasuke, Shikamaru×Temari, and Neji×Tenten shipper.
** Imperial Fleet: A series where multiple such possibilities are [[ShipTease made/suggested in canon]]. Examples: ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' and ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', which makes/implies connections with Shizuru×Natsuki, Haruka×Yukino, Chie×Aoi, Arika×Mashiro, and Mai×Mikoto. [[GirlsLove Notice a pattern?]]
* Freak Wave: Immense amount of supporters of one particular and particularly wacky ship appearing within a short timespan. Powerful enough to get even a Canon Ship to struggle.
* Free Shipping:
## Shipping possibilities provided by the characters in the story.
## Shipping possibilities provided by the creators themselves.
* Friend Ship: Shipping two characters who claim to be JustFriends or LikeBrotherAndSister.
* Freudian Ship:
## An A×B ship where Character A mistakes Character B for a third Character C. (Example: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith×Cloud×Zack]].)
## A not-quite-official ship that's very heavy in {{subtext}}.
## A ship where the character really just wants to [[OedipusRex kill his father and sleep with his mother]].
* Full of Ship: A fan whose ShippingGoggles are welded on, and can literally think of ''nothing else'' when viewing works.
* Garbage Scow: An unpopular ship that is constantly dumped on by most of the fandom.
* Generation Ship:
## A MayDecemberRomance ship.
## A ship based on the principle of GenerationXerox (his dad and her mum ''should'' have got together, but didn't, so...).
## [[Film/StarTrekGenerations Kirk×Picard]].
## [[{{Degrassi}} A teen couple whose divorced parents are also dating each other]].
* Ghost Ship:
## A pairing with the minor obstacle of one side being dead (or [[HesJustHiding "just hiding"]]) at the time.
## The CrackPairing that wouldn't go away, or the DracoInLeatherPants ship that refuses to die despite the [[ShipSinking best efforts of the author and other fans]].
## A ship involving undead characters. Most ships in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' qualify for this definition of Ghost Ship by the very nature of the show.
** Flying Dutchman: A Ghost Ship that actually outlives the run of the series.
* The Good Ship Lollipop:
## A ship that happens to TastesLikeDiabetes.
## An alternate name for ToyShip.
* Going Down With The Ship: [[AteHisGun An extreme reaction]] to seeing one's favourite ship sunk. In other words, taking DieForOurShip rather too literally.
** Or, slightly more reasonably, to stop watching the show when one's ship is sunk.
* The Good Shipherd: A member of an online community who is skilled at maintaining peace between differing shippers. Alternately, a character within a work who keeps the peace when TheMatchmaker and the ShipperOnDeck disagree.
* Grand Admiral: A {{BNF}} who reached that status through frequent shipping of a particular pairing.
* Gunship:
## Shipping two [[TheGunslinger Gunslingers]].
## Shipping two members of [[MildlyMilitary the military]].
## Shipping a [[CargoShip Badass and]] [[ICallItVera his gun]].
## Anything that requires a shotgun wedding to work.
* Hard Ship:
## A not-quite-CrackPairing that nevertheless requires a lot of effort to justify.
## A pairing involving one or more rock-based, metallic, or crystalline character.
## A particularly explicit slashfic involving... Does the obvious really need to be stated?
* The Harbour: A point in canon where both members of the ship are no longer seen together a lot.
* Heaven Ship: A pairing confirmed by putting two characters TogetherInDeath.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hringhorni Hringhorni]]: A ship between MarySue and MartyStu.
* Home Port: The work/fandom to which a particular ship belongs. Should the ship involve any kind of {{Crossover}}, it is the fandom where the ship has more support.
* Hurricane: A storm or other weather-based event that manages to destroy at least one ship.
* Hydrofoil: Very evasive ship with a low radar profile known for being extremely difficult to sink with Torpedoes, but seldom lasts long in ShipToShipCombat. Basically, a weaker Ekranoplane.
** Alternatively, a ship where one of the characters is the {{foil}} of the other.
* Iceberg: A plot event that causes a Ship Wreck. The damage is often mistaken for that of a Torpedo.
* Ice Breaker: A ship between two {{Yandere}}s, breaking through everything that get in their way.
** Alternatively, a ship that requires DefrostingIceQueen.
* [[TheLonelyIsland I'm On a Boat]]
** A ship that is meant to parody shipping.
** A ship between two [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight unimportant characters]] that is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome played up to be The Yacht]].
** When [[SelfInsertFic the shipper]] is [[PerverseSexualLust part of the ship]] or is a ShipperOnDeck or a Navigator.
** Shipping Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike.
* Intelligence Ship: Shipping secret agents.
** Also an alternative name for PairTheSmartOnes.
** "Okean" class trawler -- a ship involving Soviet agents.
* Ironclad: An unpopular ship, constantly under attack from rivals, that manages to remain afloat because despite not being official canon; it has a massive body of supporting evidence to act as armor.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads Battle of Monitor and Merrimack]]: An epic battle between two Ironclads that causes ripples throughout the fandom and beyond.
* I Saw These Ships Come Sailing In
** What you can say when [[IKnewIt you knew]] that somebody was going to ship a certain pair, and it happens.
** A {{Christmas}} themed ship.
* Jetsam: Events in canon [[FanonDiscontinuity ignored by certain shippers]] to keep sailing.
* The Junk: A ship that results from all the other characters being shipped already so the fans decide they should just PairTheSpares.
** Alternately:
### A pairing of two Chinese characters.
### A pairing that invokes MeLoveYouLongTime or the inverse.
** [[Creator/RudyardKipling The Junk and the Dhow]]: Shipping a Chinese character with an Arab.
* Kin Ship: [[IncestIsRelative Exactly What It Says On The Tin]].
* Lake Boat: An obvious ship between minor characters that has a small fandom but no competition.
* Landing Craft: A ship whose fans invade Internet forums in order to promote it.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_craft_tank Landing Craft, Tank]]: Armored support that fans bring with them in the form of evidence in favor of the ship(s) that they support.
** D-Day: What happens when a large number of fans of a particular ship (or ships) invade an Internet forum.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship Liberty Ship]]: A ship that, once formed, quickly gains a large amount of evidence in favor of it.
* Life Boat: Alternative name for LastMinuteHookUp.
* Life Jacket: Whatever arguments or reasoning shippers need to get to their Escape Raft.
* Life Ship: When real-life actors who play the characters involved in a popular ship get together, such as the romance that briefly appeared to be brewing between Daniel Radcliffe (HarryPotter) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) in early 2008.
** Another example would be the confirmed relationship between Milo Ventimiglia ([[Series/{{Heroes}} Peter Petrelli]]) and Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet). Somewhat creepy, because they play uncle and niece on the show.
* Lighthouse: A character used as a matchmaker, especially if they say "IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy" when the usual alternative is making that character DieForOurShip.
** Lightship: Shipping two characters who both [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy want their beloveds to be happy]].
*** Or any ship involving [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Yagami]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London Lloyd's of London]]: A character created to be paired up with the "out" partner of a sunk ship.
* Long Distance Shipping: Shipping two characters who never even met in canon. There is a very high chance that it will be sunk when they do meet officially.
* Lost in Shipping: CharacterDerailment by the fans in favor of their personal ship. A whole shipping crate full of [[DracoInLeatherPants leather pants]] for the EnsembleDarkHorse and/or WhiteHairedPrettyBoy.
## Random inclusion of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' characters in a relationship.
* Love Craft: A ship involving two [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].
* Love Boat:
## A show that encourages shipping. A lot. The greater [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the gender ratio]] of the core characters in a show in either direction, the more likely the show will become a Love Boat (but not ''The'' [[TheLoveBoat Love Boat]], mind).
## A ship whose fans always include sex in their discussions of it.
## An extremely popular ship.
## A pair that, in canon, is as together as together can be. Impossible for other shippers to ignore, but if you know shippers, you know that won't stop them (see Lost in Shipping).
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania Lusitania]]: A [[ShipSinking Sunken Ship]] leads to a whole lot of ShipToShipCombat.
* Man-o-War: A ship that, if present, automatically [[ShipSinking sinks]] another one. If it doesn't happen in canon, those who support it will try to make it work in fandom.
* Man Overboard: Alternative name for CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds.
* Mary Celeste: All characters involved in the ship [[PutOnABus disappear without warning]].
* Merchant Ship: A ship promoted metatextually in order to [[MerchandiseDriven sell more licensed merchandise]]; e.g., because it appeals to a PeripheryDemographic with more money than the core audience.
* Micro Ship: When one of the partners is small. Examples: [[LightNovel/ToraDora Taiga]], [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]], [[MacrossFrontier Klan Klein]], [[LovelyComplex Ohtani Atsushi]], and the protagonist of {{Yotsunoha}}. Compare Tall Ship.
* Missing the Boat: A ship that has been [[ShipTease teased]], but never resolved one way or the other due to stall tactics, leaving the UnresolvedSexualTension unresolved because, for example, one or both parties was TwiceShy and [[CanNotSpitItOut Could Not Spit It Out]]. [[CodeLyoko Yumi×Ulrich]], for example.
* Mother Ship: The Mother of All Ships in the respective franchise, such that sinking the Mother Ship simultaneously destroys the stability of the shipping fandom (generally by ruining delicate PairTheSpares and ShipMates permutations).
** Alternatively, any pairing involving a HotMom.
** Or shipping characters from [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 the]] ''[[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Mother]]'' [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} series]] together.
* Mutiny: Supporters of the same ship have [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation different ideas]] on how the ship should be handled and portrayed, leading to infighting within the ship's fan base.
** Alternatively, ShipToShipCombat between different writers of a collaborative work.
* My Ship Sails In The Morning: A ship supported by [[TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames King Harkinian]].
* Naglfar: A particularly {{Squick}}y ship. Named for a ship made out of dead people's toenails from Norse Mythology.
* Naval Arms Race: When [[ShipToShipCombat rival]] shippers repeatedly come up with new ships and examples to support their ships to outdo each other.
* Navigators: The people who play the characters in any given ship.
* [[VisualNovel/SchoolDays Nice Boat]]: A ship that ends in a MurderTheHypotenuse situation.
* Nuclear-Powered Ship: A ship involving {{Keet}} and GenkiGirl. Energies are trememdous.
* Paddle Boat:
## A ship with a strong S&M vibe, either because of the power dynamics involved, the sheer violence of the FoeYay, the fact that one of the parties involved just happens to wear [[FetishFuel fetishy stuff]], or, well, anything, really.
## Any ship based on Mark Twain's works.
* Patrol Boat: A pairing supported by an extreme minority of the fandom which an author writes to see whether or not other people like it. If done successfully, it could be promoted to a Cool Ship.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_harbor Pearl Harbor]]: When a neutral ship joins in a [[ShiptoShipCombat shipping war]] due to a massive unprecedented attack by one of the sides.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Perfect_Storm Perfect Storm]]: A nasty combination of events, usually occurring at a particularly important point in the plot, that threaten at least one ship (if not more).
* Phalanx:
## The last defensive measure a shipper has against attempts at ShipSinking by Anti-Ship Missiles.
## A furious barrage of counter-arguments that support/defend one's ship - only effective against one or two attacks not multiple (See Backfire Raid).
* Pirate Ship:
## A ship in which one participant sweeps in and steals the other from their current S.O.
## A ship involving characters who are [[{{Pirate}} pirates]].
## Where fans dub their own dialogue onto clips and post them on Website/YouTube to support their Ship. (No, I don't know if it really happens. I'd be more surprised if it doesn't, though.)
* Plague Ship:
## The least popular ship in a fandom, or just one that will cause an InternetBackdraft.
## A ship that finally gets together in an otherwise drama/action-centric series, and then triggers an outbreak of other pairings, gradually pushing the whole thing towards the romance genre (if it's not all part of wrapping up the series).
## A ship that, when brought together or even hinted at, causes the show to JumpTheShark.
* Premiership: Pairing heads of state (TruthInTelevision: Bush/Blair).
* Prepaid Shipping: Supporting a pairing when one or both of the characters haven't actually made an appearance yet (including characters from a series that hasn't started). Makes shipping more convenient when the time comes, since people don't think to question a pairing that's already well-established.
* Sailing Ship: When old people get shipped.
** Alternatively: A ship that's been around too long already.
** Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope: Preliminary materials that provide support for such a ship.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_ship Q-Ship]]: A ship dismissed as unlikely and therefore harmless by the rest of a fandom busy with ShipToShipCombat that suddenly deploys the massive firepower of [[WordOfGod Authorial approval]] from seemingly nowhere.
** Alternatively, any ship involving a character played by John de Lancie.
** Or any ship involving a certain JamesBond character.
** [[CrackPairing Or both.]]
** Another option: a ship involving a [[DroppedABridgetOnHim Bridget-type character]].
* The Queen Mary:
## In FanFic, when the author matches a canon character with MarySue.
## Alternatively, when the fanfic author treats Mary Sue as the LauncherOfAThousandShips.
* Railway Ferry: Shipping in ''TheRailwaySeries''.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: When one ship's fanbase decides on one last suicidal attack on their perceived opponents. LargeHam [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Klingon captain optional]].
* Reconnaissance Ship: Shipping two [[StalkerWithACrush Stalkers With A Crush]].
* Red Light Quarter: Keeps Shippers distracted for a while.
* Reefer Ship: Cooler than a Cool Ship.
* Relation Ship: See Kin Ship.
* The Registry: A comprehensive list of all significant ships in a fandom.
* ReportingName: What you call a ship when you don't know what the fandom calls it.
** Or, if you're like me and just refuse to memorize all those stupid names that the shippers think up for these things. I mean, it's one thing if it's just the names jammed together, but the "(insert-something-here)shipping" ones get annoying fast...
*** ''{{Pokémon}}'' shipping community refugee, I assume?
*** Either that or Yu-Gi-Oh. Have you ''seen'' their [[strike:list]] Registry?
* Rocket Ship: Er, a ship involving rockets...
** Or [[{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]]!
** Or involving astronauts. Most of the RealLife ones end up well (although only one is widely considered to have ever actually ended up in the [[ZeroGSpot logical conclusion]]), and then there was that incident with the diaper...
** Maybe a ship that is so Canon and mammothly obvious that nobody bothers to touch it. It's out of their league. Then both characters are put on bus out and we can only assume they are living out their happily married days on the moon.
* Rogue Wave: A plot twist that comes out of nowhere and sinks at least one ship.
* Royal Caribbean: Pairing up at least one non-pirate character from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
* Run the Ship Aground: Where a ShipTease is stretched beyond believability.
* Scholar Ship: A ship involving very intelligent people.
* Scuttling the Ship: When a character sinks a ship by killing the person they're shipped with.
* Shanghaied: When fans are forced into supporting a ship against their will.
* Shantyman: A fan whose pairing of choice inspires fellow fans to accompany him or her with their own fanwork based on said pairing.
* Ship Ahoy!: The first suggestions of a potential shipping.
* Shipboard: Forum where nothing but pairings in fiction is discussed.
* Ship of Fools:
## PluckyComicRelief×{{Cloudcuckoolander}}, a match made in heaven. Like [[Manga/{{Beelzebub}} Hanazawa and Kanzaki.]]
## A ship you would have to be crazy to back.
## A ship involving two jesters.
##[[{{Persona3}} Minato Arisato]]×[[{{Persona4}} Seta Souji]]
* Ship Keeper: A fan who persists in their minority ship, or becomes its main supporter.
* Shipping and Handling:
## The delicate logical contortions fans often go through in order to make a [[{{OTP}} favorite ship]] "work."
** Panel Beating: Hammering the raw materials (conversations, looks, curiously appropriate poses, casual meetings) into "proof" for a Ship. Most often used in an {{AMV}}.
## Shipping motivated mainly by the fans being alone in bed with the door locked.
* Shipping Crate: The [[CargoShip container]] in which you ship your [[CompanionCube cargo]].
** Or LockedInAFreezer with romantic overtones. Like the time Tony and Ziva got locked in a shipping container in ''{{NCIS}}''.
* Ship of the Line: Heterosexual pairing in a fandom overrun by SlashFic.
* Shipping Company:
## Merch manufacturer supporting one particular ship.
## Matchmaking friends.
* Shipping Costs: The inevitable increase in angst after a pairing becomes official in order to maintain dramatic tension.
* Shipping Department: A forum/LJ Community/chat room set up for fanfic authors writing a ship, so they can collaborate.
* The Shipping Forecast: Predicting either the most popular ships or the canonical pairing of a new character.
* Shipping News: New developments that affect the state of a ship, whether [[OfficialCouple positively]] or [[ShipSinking negatively]].
* Ship Shape: the current state of a ship, both in canon and among the fandom.
** Alternatively, a work where every character is dating exactly who you think they should.
* Ship-to-Shore Calls: When fans send messages to the WordOfGod supporting a non-canon ship to try to convince him [[DieForOurShip he's doing]] [[RelationshipWritingFumble it wrong]].
* Ship Wreck: ShipSinking that isn't a direct effort from the creators. Could be a SelectiveSquick moment, or just the actions of the fandom that causes others to AbandonShipping.
* Ship of the Damned: A ship long thought wrecked but comes back with vengeance anyway, despite one of the characters being dead or foretold to die.
## Alternatively, a ship between dead bad guys.
* Ships of the Desert:
## Shipping [[StarWars anyone on Tatooine]].
## Shipping [[Manga/{{Naruto}} the Sandsiblings]], [[BrotherSisterIncest sometimes with each other]].
## [[{{Dune}} Paul×Chani]].
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: A ship with the minor obstacle that those involved have generally not interacted much, if at all, and might not even know about each other's existence.
* The Shipyard:
## The original series, where a ship originates from.
## Fanfic sites, where ships are built and carefully manufactured.
## This page.
* Smuggling Ship: Carries a whole lot of [[CrackPairing illegal drugs.]]
* Sonar Operator
## A member of a ship who monitors the activities of other ships and submarines.
## A character who ships fellow cast members.
** Going Active: Actively asking the submarine what it is doing, sometimes to the point of annoyance.
* [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Space Hulk]]: An old ship, long since sunk, which nonetheless retains a surprising number of rabid fans. Don't go near it, or they'll come crawling out of the ventilation system to shred you!
* Space Ship
## Sci-fi shipping.
## Shipping between characters arguably in the same continuity, even if on different planets.
* The S.S. Minnow: A ship which seems cute and fun at first, but eventually runs aground and becomes tiresome. See also "OldShame".
* Star Ship: Shipping real-life celebrities, especially if one also ships their characters with each other. (For example, if a Harmony shipper wants Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson to hook up.) Related to Life Ship.
* Stealth Ship: A ship you don't see coming until it becomes canon. More a concept than a reality at this present time, owing to to the fact that any canon ship is inevitably already being shipped by someone, somewhere.
** Meagan and Prof. Fleinhardt in ''NUMB3RS'' probably count as an example. Seriously, who saw that coming?
* Steamboat: A ship whose primary audience appeal lies in the fact that both (or all) participants are ''extremely'' sexy. Similar but not identical to The Yacht.
** A romance between elderly characters.
** A pairing in [[{{Steampunk}} Victorian England]].
* The Submarine:
## An [[WordOfGod Author]] or
## A [[ExecutiveMeddling company]] that is particularly aggressive towards ships in general, or ships that don't fit canon. [[HarryPotter J.K. Rowling]] and RumikoTakahashi are good examples of the Author Version.
** Akula/"Typhoon" Class: The world's largest Submarines, capable of firing Nuclear Torpedoes.
*** [[TheHuntForRedOctober Red October]]: The one that tops them all. You'll never know before it hits you.
** Seawolf class: The world's quietest submarine, which you don't hear at all unless it's attacking ships. It also charges a lot for its work.
** "Alfa" class: Very fast and very noisy submarine -- tends to be very obvious when present, but has a tougher hull than one would think.
** U-Boat: A particularly nasty Submarine.
*** That or a German one.
*** Film/DasBoot: Will fight any non-canonical ships the best they can, but ultimately lose against the fans, and can be lucky if they make it out of the war without going under altogether.
** K-Boat: An ostensibly dangerous submarine that spends most of its time malfunctioning and blowing up of its own accord rather than threatening ships.
** Boomer: Stealthy submarine that only reveals its existence when it launches its battery of Nuclear Torpedoes.
** Soviet Submarine Exercises: Moving ships involving characters from ''{{Dollhouse}}'', who are "submerged" so to speak.
* Suez Canal: An often handwaved plot device that allows for otherwise highly unlikely shippings to work.
** Post-Suezmax: A ship so mind-bogglingly unlikely that even the Suez Canal can't get it anywhere.
* Sunk by Chiron: A ship that sank because one of the shipped characters dies before they could get together.
* Sunken Ship: A ship that [[ShipSinking has been hit by a Torpedo]].
* Supertanker:
## A ship that carries a whole lot of emotional cargo.
## A ship that required lots of booze to happen.
* Tall Ship: Both partners are at least 5'10".
* Time Ship: When two characters, one of which lived earlier than the other, are shipped. E.G.: [[HarryPotter Hermione×Young!Remus]]
* The Titanic: Alternative name for a ship that's a FanPreferredCouple. Appropriately, it gets [[ShipSinking sunk]] by an Iceberg.
* A Torpedo: What a story launches when it takes a turn for no other purpose than to sink a ship.
** Nuclear Torpedo: Something that not only sinks a ship, but takes out [[FanDisillusionment a lot of the fandom]] with it.
** Supercavitating Torpedo: An impossibly fast torpedo that some ships may not even be aware of before it strikes. More attentive ships can usually only cry [[OhCrap "Oh......[Expletive]!"]] before it detonates.
* Torpedo boat: A fandom member that really enjoys sinking other peoples ships (may be attached to a ship, fleet or convoy themselves).
* Township: Shipping the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of population centres. [[ATaleOfTwoCities Dickens liked LondonxParis]], but nowadays [[PortmanteauCouplename NY-Lon]] is a popular one.
* Tramp Steamer: Ships involving a loose [[DoubleStandard woman]] (or a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold pretty]] one).
* Das Traumschiff: A ship too kitschy to be even halfway believable.
* Trimaran: Being crazy enough to support a LoveTriangle.
* Trireme: A ship that [[IncrediblyLamePun works on several levels]].
* Tugboat: A small, powerful ship that helps the main ship. Frequently used in numbers of two to four to be really sure.
* Uncharted Waters: A ship that's initially strange and unheard of in the fandom. Almost always a CrackPairing, but can become The Yacht.
* USS Indianapolis: A ship that's just been hit with a massive Torpedo and has sunk, but devoted shippers still crowd around the wreckage despite repeated attacks from sharks in the form of WordOfGod and the fandom itself trying to make the rest of the shippers AbandonShipping.
* Warship: Dramatic romance at wartime. [[GoneWithTheWind Rhett×Scarlett]] and the like.
* When The Ship Comes In: The long-awaited moment when one's favorite pairing gets a RelationshipUpgrade.
* When the Ship Hits the Fan:
## A popular ship becomes canon but [[PlotTumor dramatically changes the tone of the series]], and/or angers a lot of fans, including fans of the ship. A good example would be the [[RomanticPlotTumor Gwen/Kevin]] pairing of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''.
## A couple gets together in canon, then breaks up.
## Something happens that causes a large proportion of fans to AbandonShipping.
## A single development that impacts a large number of ships at once.
* Wor Ship: When the fandom abides by one specific set of ships and any other pairings are considered heresy.
** Alternately, shipping two gods/divine beings.
* Vasa: A Ship whose builder goes to great lengths to decorate and advertise it-but structurally, it's so poorly thought out that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship) it promptly sinks itself]], no iceberg or torpedo needed.
* Viking Funeral: A [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove deathbed confession of love]]. Named for the tradition of [[BurnBabyBurn cremating a dead warrior on a burning ship]].
* The Yacht: The CoolShip of shipping. A ship running on the RuleOfCool, like the hypothetical Wolverine×Shego pairing suggested elsewhere on this wiki.
** Gigayacht: A Yacht that exists only to trump other Yachts, no matter how ridiculously over the top it has to be to achieve that, such as [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Adult Nanoha]]x[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].
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