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* A downplayed example can be found in ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent rock troll]] is accidentally recruited by the Redanian army and joins up with a unit who are trying to protect a fleet of boats that have been "requisitioned" from some peasants. In an unusually literal case of InsaneTrollLogic, the troll decides "boats guard boats!", rips some of the boats apart and uses the timber to build a crude fence to protect the rest of the fleet.

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A downplayed example can be found in ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': a when [[AllTrollsAreDifferent rock troll]] is accidentally recruited by the Redanian army and joins up with a unit who are trying to protect a fleet of boats that have been "requisitioned" from some peasants. In an unusually literal case of InsaneTrollLogic, the troll decides "boats guard boats!", rips some of the boats apart and uses the timber to build a crude fence to protect the rest of the fleet.fleet.
** The cave used as a hideout by the Grossbart Brothers on Ard Skellig contains a few wrecked longboats that have been converted into a rudimentary shelter.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''ComicBook/DarthVader2017'' #17 with the Mon Calamari Exodus Fleet. Many city-ships, some of which were average buildings converted into spaceships, fled Mon Cala as the Empire occupied and bombarded it.

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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''ComicBook/DarthVader2017'' ''ComicBook/DarthVader'' #17 with the Mon Calamari Exodus Fleet. Many city-ships, some of which were average buildings converted into spaceships, fled Mon Cala as the Empire occupied and bombarded it.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''ComicBook/DarthVader2017'' #17 with the Mon Calamari Exodus Fleet. Many city-ships, some of which were average buildings converted into spaceships, fled Mon Cala as the Empire occupied and bombarded it.
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* ''Series/AlteredCarbon'': The spaceship that carried the founders of Harlan's World has been integrated into a cliff face as a power station, prison, and arena for public execution.
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* ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Most structures in the Viking village of Berk are built out of Viking longships, and the iconography of the dragon figureheads at the prow of the ships is carried over into the architectural trappings. Fearsome "Monstrous Nightmare", "Deadly Nadder", and "Hideous Zippleback" dragon head carvings adorn the gables of houses and the village's meeting hall.



* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Most structures in the Viking village of Berk are built out of Viking longships, and the iconography of the dragon figureheads at the prow of the ships is carried over into the architectural trappings. Fearsome "Monstrous Nightmare", "Deadly Nadder", and "Hideous Zippleback" dragon head carvings adorn the gables of houses and the village's meeting hall.
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* In the Literature/RevelationSpace novels, the spacecraft that originally founded the human colonies are scavenged and turned into buildings.

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* In the Literature/RevelationSpace ''Literature/RevelationSpace'' novels, the spacecraft that originally founded the human colonies are scavenged and turned into buildings.
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* In the Literature/RevelationSpace novels, the spacecraft that originally founded the human colonies are scavenged and turned into buildings.
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* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'': Zaton is a swamp that houses a few rusty derelict ships. The biggest and most well-preserved of them, the Skadovsk, is the central point of the whole region and where you can find several traders and the resident weapons tech; it even has power, thanks to stalkers repairing the ship's engine to work as a generator.

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* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'': Zaton is a swamp that houses a few rusty derelict ships.ships that stalkers have adapted as refuge or housing. The biggest and most well-preserved of them, the Skadovsk, is the central point of the whole region and where you can find several traders and the resident weapons tech; it even has power, thanks to stalkers repairing the ship's engine to work as a generator.
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* In ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', Elethiomel converts the battleship Staberinde into a land-based fortress.

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* In ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', Elethiomel converts the battleship Staberinde into a land-based fortress.fortress by moving it into drydock and packing it in place with wreckage.
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* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's fantasy series ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'' the city of Graymouth includes a riverfront section known as Downtown (or "Drowntown"),where the architecture includes flatboats--which make a strictly one-way journey downriver to the river delta--hauled out of the water intact and re-used as buildings. (Or at least the most sturdily-built flatboats are re-used this way; other craft are broken up for timber, or firewood.) Their owners claim to be all ready for the next time a flood hits the city.
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* The Carpenter's house of ''Manga/GiantSpiderAndMe''. It also serves as a café.
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* The main characters of ''ComicBook/{{Habibi}}'' live in a converted [[SaharanShipwreck boat stranded on a dune.]]
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* ''Recap/AsterixAndTheCauldron'' has an inn called "the beached pirate", which is of course, a hastily-converted beached pirate ship.

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* ''Recap/AsterixAndTheCauldron'' ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} [[Recap/AsterixAndTheCauldron and the Cauldron]]'' has an inn called "the beached pirate", which is of course, a hastily-converted hastily converted beached pirate ship.



* ''VideoGame/MadMax'': Wasteland leader Gutgash and his tribe live inside of a ship in a dried-up part of the ocean and work on rebuilding it to be sturdy in case the water ever comes back (and to make it more defensible against War Boy marauders).

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* ''VideoGame/MadMax'': ''VideoGame/MadMax2015'': Wasteland leader Gutgash and his tribe live inside of a ship in a dried-up part of the ocean and work on rebuilding it to be sturdy in case the water ever comes back (and to make it more defensible against War Boy marauders).
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* In a moment that almost seemed like the submarine was yearning to return to the sea, ''USS [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Batfish_(SS-310) Batfish]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxoX9dxyjVw was refloated]] off the dry land it normally sits on at Muskogee, Oklahoma during heavy flooding in 2019, and actually remained watertight, though water was pumped into its ballast tanks for the first time in decades to prevent it from listing.
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Thanks to the rise of museum ships, this trope is TruthInTelevision, and with the preservation of a handful of ocean liners such as RMS ''Queen Mary'' and ''Queen Elizabeth 2'' - both of which have been turned into hotels - you really can live aboard a vessel that once went to sea without ever having to put even a toe into the water.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The architecture of Krull in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' confirms to Rincewind and Twoflower that this is a culture that gets ''all'' its material from ships that get caught in the Circumfence.
-->To put it bluntly, entire ships had been mortised artfully together and converted into buildings. Triremes, dhows and caravels protruded at strange angles from the general wooden chaos. Painted figureheads and Hublandish dragonprows reminded the citizens of Krull that their good fortune stemmed from the sea; barquentines and carracks lent a distinctive shape to the larger buildings.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Potionomics}}: As described by rookie hero Mint, the barracks at the Rafta branch of the Heroes Guild are built out of the ship used by the adventuring party that took down Maven the Witch Queen.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Potionomics}}: ''VideoGame/{{Potionomics}}'': As described by rookie hero Mint, the barracks at the Rafta branch of the Heroes Guild are built out of the ship used by the adventuring party that took down Maven the Witch Queen.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Potionomics}}: As described by rookie hero Mint, the barracks at the Rafta branch of the Heroes Guild are built out of the ship used by the adventuring party that took down Maven the Witch Queen.



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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenWaters'' features multiple settlements that appear to be built out of recycled pirate ships. The art for "Shanty Town"/ "Devastated Town" shows buildings with roofs made of upturned ships (and chimneys made from repurposed cannons) alongside structures built of upright hulls. "Pirate Paradise" depicts the Wasted Walrus tavern with a roof constructed out of an upturned ship.
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-->'''Marwa''': This was our ship. It was a ship. It's a weird thing. There was a wild storm about 20 or so years ago."

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-->'''Marwa''': This was our ship. It was a ship. It's a weird thing. There was a wild storm about 20 or so years ago."

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