History Main / BoatsIntoBuildings

* Similarly, the famous RMS ''Queen Mary'' and the Japanese ocean liner ''Hikawa Maru'' have been converted into museums and hotel ships in Long Beach and Yokohama respectively.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The {{Bizarrchitecture}} treehouse bases from which [=KND=] agents operate are constructed out of a combination of local buildings, monuments, and vehicles, including ships:

** The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/6/6d/Central_Bike_Hub.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120615213704 Central Bike Hub]] in Sequoia National Park, California is built into the branches of a Redwood tree, and includes a large ship.
** Zigzagged in the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/d/d1/Underwater.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101013041043 Deep Sea Science Lab]], with is underwater. The salvaged oil platform and cruise ship that make up the base are tethered to the bottom of the ocean by seaweed, resembling the treehouses operatives utilize on land.

* 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!" and rips some of the boats apart to use the timber to build a crude fence to protect the rest of the fleet.

* The third campaign of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' opens in the Marquesian city of Jrusar, which contains the general magical goods shop "The Trove of Marwa." The shop is described in Episode 12 as a wooden ship set down on the Lantern Spire, far from the ocean. [[note]]"it looks like a building built out of a shipwreck in the middle of a city in the Oderan Wilds. So whether there was a ship here and then they just hollowed it out and made a building, or they brought pieces of a ship to decorate it, but in the middle of all these various shapes and the heights of structures in this industrial district here in the the upper echelon of the Lantern Spire, you see this cocked and upward-angled sunken ship, but out in the open air. You can see port holes along the side."[[/note]] According to current proprietor Marwa Endalia, a storm swept the ship up and deposited it in Jrusar. Her father gained custody of it from a city official who owed him a favor -- he spruced it up and converted it into a shop.

* The Benson Ford Laker, built in 1924 to haul ore across the great lakes for the Ford Motor Co., was turned into a private house after it's sailing days were over. In 1986, the forward superstructure of the ship (including the forecastle deck) was removed and transported by the barge to South Bass Island (also called Put-in-Bay) in Ohio, East of Toledo and South of Detroit. There's even [[https://shiponthebay.com/gallery/ a website]] dedicated to the structure, complete with photos of the ship while it was still in use and interior photos of the five bedroom, five bath home after renovations.

* The Benson Ford Laker, built in 1924 to haul ore across the great lakes for the Ford Motor Co., was turned into a private house after it's sailing days were over. In 1986, the forward superstructure of the ship (including the forecastle deck) was removed and transported by the barge to South Bass Island (also called Put-in-Bay) in Ohio, East of Toledo and South of Detroit. There's even [[http://shiponthebay.com/history.html a website]] dedicated to the structure, complete with photos of the ship while it was still in use and interior photos of the five bedroom, five bath home after renovations.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_ship Museum Ships]] can occasionally dip into this trope, depending on how they are maintained; some, such as the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_(BB-63) USS Missouri]]'' or Russian Cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Aurora Aurora]]'' remain free-floating, allowing them to be moved via towing (though some actually retain their propulsion, allowing them to move on their own) for maintenance and public events. Others, however, play this trope straight, such as the Japanese battleship ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa Mikasa]]'' and the submarine ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Drum_(SS-228) USS Drum]]'' having been either encased in concrete or relocated onto land, respectively, as permanently stationary structures.

* Fishermen on Lindisfarne recycle their old herring boats by sectioning them out, installing doors, [[https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/27/the-holy-island-of-lindisfarnes-traditional-sheds-made-of-upturned-fishing-boats/ and turning them into small sheds for tools and nets]].

* MV Dulous Phos, notable for once being the oldest passenger ship in service (from the year 1914 - 2009), was converted into a stationary hotel upon retiring. Unlike similar conversions however, Dulous Phos was hauled out of the water and dry-docked permanently on a custom-built, [[https://sportsandtravel.com.sg/short-breaks-take-a-bintan-break/ anchor-shaped artificial island/ pleasure pavilion]] in the Riau Archepelago.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': Jorrvaskr, home of the mercenary company The Companions, was built out of the Viking longboat of the same name.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Civil_War_Naval_Museum National Civil War Naval Museum]] in Colombus, Georgia used to have an outdoor exhibit, consisting of a 1/1 scale model of the U.S.S. / C.S.S. ''Water Witch'', a steamboat that is notable for having served under both the Union and Confederacy during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. The model, while not truly seaworthy, was able to be walked on and toured, but unfortunately the construction company hired by the museum to build the replica did not use properly treated wood; as a result, it deteriorated to the point of unsalvageability and was torn down in 2019.

* The third campaign of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' opened in the Marquesian city of Jrusar, which contains the general magical goods shop "The Trove of Marwa." The shop is described in Episode 12 as a wooden ship set down on the Lantern Spire, far from the ocean. According to current proprietor Marwa Endalia, a magically charged storm swept the ship up from the water some decades ago and deposited it in Jrusar. Her father gained custody of it from a city official who owed him a favor -- he spruced it up and converted it into a shop.

* In the ''Fantasy High'' campaign of ''WebVideo/Dimension20'', Fabian Seacaster lives in a giant dry-docked ship, since his father is a semi-retired pirate captain.

* The French village of [[https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/04/04/postcards-from-a-seaside-village-of-upturned-boat-homes/ Équihen-Plage]] is renowned for the number of boat-roofed houses constructed from small fishing boats stranded on the beach during the early 1900s. The bases of these houses were constructed from wood or stone and the boats (dragged up from the shore) would be turned upside down, covered in tar to ensure they remained watertight, and used as the roof. The village earned the nickname "Quartier des Quilles en l'Air," or, "the neighborhood of keels in the air." Though most of the boat-homes were destroyed during WWII, a resurgence of interest in local history in the 1990s resulted in the reconstruction of a small commune of these houses as rental properties.

* The house at 200 Descanso Ave. on Santa Catalina Island in California was built using material from [[https://recyclenation.com/2011/01/recycled-ship-houses/ ''two'' ships]]. The second floor of the house still resembles an old ship's bridge.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' -- [[https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Astera Astera's Gathering Hub]] and the Third Fleet base are both built from the ships the Hunters used to sail to the New World. Quite how Astera's ship made it to the top of a cliff is another story.

* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'', the Green Isles ferry has been drydocked for so long that it's beyond repair (at least conventional repair). Even so, the ferryman still lives in the ship's cabin.
** The previous instalment ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'' had the deaf Fisherman who lived in the bow of a ship standing vertically. It's not shown whether the whole ship is buried in the island or it's literally all that remains of it.

* TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade has a hangout for vampires in San Francisco, the aptly-named "Vampire Club", built from a beached and subsequently buried yacht.

* After the American Revolution, Manhattan's shoreline was artificially extended to create more usable land. The river was filled in with scrap material including old ships. As in the San Francisco example, the ships turn up underneath buildings to this day, including one 200-year-old sloop [[https://www.history.com/news/tree-rings-solve-world-trade-center-ship-mystery found below the World Trade Center.]]

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Spaceships are routinely given second lives as construction material for planetary colonies, with their reactors used to provide power. This is a factor when Captain Janeway has to decide whether Voyager will take the long hazardous journey back to Earth, or settle down on a planet. If they try the latter it will mean dismantling Voyager, leaving them stranded and unable to defend themselves against OrbitalBombardment.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiddlemostPost'': Middlemost Post very much looks like a boat. Seeing the fisherman-like design Angus has, it's possible he was a sailor at one point before becoming a mailman, and that it's his former boat.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': [[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Jorrvaskr Jorrvaskr]], home of the mercenary company The Companions, was built out of the Viking longboat of the same name.

** A downplayed example can be found in the ''FMS Northern Star'', a ship that apparently ran aground after the bombs fell. It's goulified Norwegian crew simply turned it into a raider base.