Line #117 Main/BoatsIntoBuildings


1	[[quoteright:350:[[Literature/{{Dinotopia}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_village_of_bilgewater_2_0.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350: Gives a whole new meaning to the term "boathouse."]]
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8	->''"Remnants of the Naval Research Institute cleared the mirelurks off this wreck about 40 years ago. We were looking for new lab space, and this bucket of bolts just happened to have a well-preserved science bay on it. Everything else just grew up around that lab once we got it up and running."''
9	-->-- '''Horace Pinkerton''' on Rivet City, ''VideoGame/Fallout3''
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11	On the occasion that a seafaring vessel is retired, it's usually broken down for scrap or sunk to create an artificial reef. But in some cases, ships get a second lease on life... on land.
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13	When ''Boats Into Buildings'' comes into play, marine vessels are hauled out of the water and used to create permanent land-based structures. Homes are the most common example, but businesses, schools, town halls, even secret bases and storage sheds are all options.
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15	The ships might be taken apart for raw material to create new buildings, but more often they're re-purposed without the need for too much deconstruction. In the simplest case, ships can be dragged ashore and hooked up to utilities like an [=RV=]. In others, the boats might be flipped upside down to create a sturdy, pre-built roof from the water-tight hull.
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17	Note that these aren't just structures that superficially resemble ships - actual boats must have been used in the construction in order to qualify. This trope also tends to exclude modern craft constructed out of fiberglass, rather focusing on medium-to-large wooden boats and large metal-hulled ships. [[note]] Fiberglass is difficult to recycle without access to expensive modern facilities to cut, mulch, pulverize, and/ or chemically decompose the material, whereas wood can be hewn and metal can be shaped to fit the needs of the builder. The (relative) cheapness and availability of fiberglass crafts in modern times also means they aren't romanticized the way wooden and metal ships are -- few people will view a derelict fiberglass hull as suitable building material ''or'' as a proud ship worthy of preservation and reconstruction on land. [[/note]]
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19	In fiction, a beached boat such as this might be the home of an extra-quirky HouseboatHero, or the retired form of a CoolBoat. Compare and Contrast with SaharanShipwreck (when a boat on dry land serves as a surreal set piece) and CityOnTheWater (wherein cities are constructed so as to float on the water like a boat).
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21	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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28	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
29	* The Carpenter's house of ''Manga/GiantSpiderAndMe''. It also serves as a café.
30	* The human settlers in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' eventually deconstructed their colony ships and used the materials to create the various towns that are scattered across the planet of Gunsmoke.
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34	* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} [[Recap/AsterixAndTheCauldron and the Cauldron]]'' has an inn called "the beached pirate", which is of course, a hastily converted beached pirate ship.
35	* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''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.
36	* The main characters of ''ComicBook/{{Habibi}}'' live in a converted [[SaharanShipwreck boat stranded on a dune.]]
37	* ''ComicBook/JustAPilgrim'': A downplayed example. As the Earth's oceans have dried up, the caravan the titular Pilgrim is staying with uses the wreck of the Titanic as a temporary shelter, which comes in handy when they're attacked by wasteland raiders. The raiders are wiped out, but so is the caravan, leaving the Pilgrim as the only survivor.
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40	[[folder:Fan Works]]
41	* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': ZigZags the trope. Ami's [[CityOnTheWater Iceburg Dungeon Ship]] was originally [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/post-6355701 constructed in an underwater cavern]] before being floated to the surface to expand the structure and move about the sea. When the dungeon reaches its destination in the Avatar Islands, it is solidly affixed to the coastline with even more ice, like a glacier calving in reverse. Later chapters mention [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-5 that there's an underground tunnel]] connecting the iceberg to the mainland.
42	* ''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 they 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.
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46	* ''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.
47	* In ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', the last remnants of Humanity have chosen to live something of a nomadic life instead of collectively seeking out a new world to settle on. There are drifter colonies all over the galaxy haphazardly cobbled together from the various vessels used to escape from Earth when it was destroyed.
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50	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
51	* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', the pirates' town is mostly built from beached ships stacked on each other, with the stuffed crocodile used as a clock tower in the central place. There was a scripted scene of the pirates strutting up such a ship, with Captain Hook directing them as if hanging a painting, but it wasn't filmed for being too expensive.
52	* [[https://pirates.fandom.com/wiki/Shipwreck_City Shipwreck City]] in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' is an {{Exaggerated}} example. The town itself is built out of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz1U0MUA6F0 hundreds of scuttled ships piled haphazardly atop each other]] in a Shipwreck Cove, an inlet found within the dormant volcano known as Shipwreck Island. The structure of Shipwreck City easily reaches over a dozen stories into the air. No one knows precisely how old the city is, though according to legend its foundations consist of Greek triremes, Roman galleys, and dragon-prowed longships.
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55	[[folder:Literature]]
56	* The village of Bilgewater in ''[[Literature/{{Dinotopia}} Dinotopia: Journey to Chandra]]'' was built from the hulls of three galleons -- the ''Prince of the Seas'', the ''Royal Vanguard'', and the ''Advance'' -- that wrecked on the reef surrounding the island. With the help of dinosaur muscle for the heavy lifting, the ships were floated to the surface, dragged to their permanent home, sawed in half, and set upright to create a unique community.
57	* ''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.
58	-->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.
59	* In ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'', the city of Tarsis was a major port until the Cataclysm changed the sea levels and made it landlocked. Some 200-300 years after the Cataclysm, some of the stranded ships have been converted into buildings.
60	* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': In ''The Legend of Luke'', Vilu Daskar's ship is broken in half during the climactic battle. One of the halves, stuck between two rocks, becomes a new home for the battle's survivors.
61	* 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.
62	* In the ''Literature/RevelationSpace'' novels, the spacecraft that originally founded the human colonies are scavenged and turned into buildings.
63	* ''[[Literature/ShineOnDaizyStar Shine On, Daizy Star]]'': Technically, the boat in [[Creator/CathyCassidy Cathy Cassidy's]] novel never made it onto the ocean, but when Daizy's father realized his scheme to take his family sailing around the world was not one they shared, he gave the boat away and let it become the base for the infant's new pirate-themed playground.
64	* In ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', Elethiomel converts the battleship Staberinde into a land-based fortress by moving it into drydock and packing it in place with wreckage.
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67	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
68	* ''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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71	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
72	* ''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.
73	* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' has a hangout for vampires in San Francisco, the aptly-named "Vampire Club", built from a beached and subsequently buried yacht.
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77	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': Jorrvaskr, home of the mercenary company The Companions, was built out of the [[{{Precursors}} Atmoran]] longboat of the same name.
78	* Rivet City in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' is an aircraft carrier that, following the Great War, was converted into one of the largest and most scientifically advanced settlements in the Capital Wasteland. Among the features that the [[PlayerCharacter Lone Wanderer]] can find onboard are a market, a clinic, a science lab, a bar called the Muddy Rudder, and even a hotel.
79	* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'':
80	** A downplayed example can be found in the ''FMS Northern Star'', a ship that apparently ran aground after the bombs fell. Its ghoulified Norwegian crew simply turned it into a raider base.
81	** In the ''Far Harbor'' DLC, the Children of Atom inhabit a submarine dry dock, complete with a submarine that's clearly not going anywhere soon.
82	* Many of the buildings in Lion's Arch and other areas occupied by pirates in ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' appear to be made from ships. Notable examples include the [[https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Guild_Initiative_Headquarters.jpg Guild Initiative Headquarters]] and the Crow's Nest Tavern (both [[https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Crow%27s_Nest_Tavern_exterior.jpg before]] and [[https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Crow%27s_Nest_Tavern_(aftermath).jpg after reconstruction]]).
83	* The ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' franchise includes multiple examples:
84	** ''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.
85	** 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.
86	* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' and ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'': Boats as parts of buildings are a common architectural feature of the sea-serpent-hunting (and occasionally pirating) city of [[NotSoSafeHarbor Bilgewater]]. When Butcher's Bridge is the active ARAM map in League, you can actually see a few in the background, while the Bilgewater cosmetic board in Legends of Runeterra might also be an in-game case of this.
87	* ''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).
88	* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' has Woodtick, which on first glance just seems like a bunch of dockworks with ships attached, but these haven't gone anywhere in a ''long'' time and function as bars, inns and shops.
89	* ''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.[[note]]The reasoning for this apparently being that the New World is so far away from any civilization that only enough supplies can be brought aboard for a [[YouCantGoHomeAgain one-way trip]][[/note]] Quite how Astera's ship made it to the top of a cliff is another story.
90	* ''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.
91	* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': In Runescape 3, some Player Owned Port bars feature an upper deck made from a boat.
92	* In ''VideoGame/SPYFox in Dry Cereal'', SPY Corp has set up its Acidophilus base in the cabin of a ship that is buried underground. Only the ship's bow can be seen aboveground, where it is disguised as a phone booth. Fox has to enter a special phone number in the "phone booth" in order to activate a secret elevator to access the base.
93	* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'': Zaton is a swamp that houses a few rusty derelict 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.
94	* ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'':
95	** A downplayed example can be found 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.
96	** 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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100	* The secret base of the Swiddentown pirates in ''Webcomic/TigerTiger'' is a upturned ship hidden away in a coastal cave.
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103	[[folder:Web Videos]]
104	* 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 the ship from a city official who owed him a favor, eventually sprucing it up and converting it into a shop.
105	-->'''Imogen''': Was this your ship?
106	-->'''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.
107	-->'''Imogen''': A storm?
108	-->'''Marwa''': A storm, to the north, near the port town, just past the mountain range. A water spout just picked up a ship and dropped it right here in the middle of the spire. At first, there was the intent to destroy it, but well, the Mahaan house that was trying to do that owed my dad a big favor, and so he asked if he could go ahead and take over the ship as opposed to demolishing it. He said, if you can manage to make it not a genuine eyesore, and, uh... that's what we did. So it's still kind of an eyesore, but it's not as bad of an eyesore as it was.
109	* 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.
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113	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The {{Bizarrchitecture}} treehouse bases from which [=KND=] agents operate are constructed out of a combination of local buildings, monuments, and vehicles -- which often includes ships:
114	** The Treehouse in [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/3/32/Dmj8yZL.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190222202522 Sector V]], out of which the protagonists operate, includes the prow of a large cruise ship.
115	** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/f/f5/Greek_Sector.png/revision/latest?cb=20111008071504 Greek Sector Treehouse]] has two cruise ships incorporated into the structure.
116	** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/8/8e/Peruvian_Sector.png/revision/latest?cb=20180429154730 Peruvian Sector Treehouse]] has what looks like an old fishing trawler incorporated into the structure.
117	** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/3/32/Kids_Next_Door_Arctic_Training_Base_%26_Prison.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080210185422 Kids Next Door Arctic Training Base and Prison]] plays with the trope: the "treehouse" is built into the roots of a lone pine tree that appears to grow out of the arctic ice, with salvaged structures including a large cruise ship hidden below the surface. Not technically land-based, but it fits the spirit of the trope.
118	** 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.
119	** 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 ocean floor by seaweed, resembling the treehouses operatives utilize on land.
120	** Despite being ''on the moon'', the first KND [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/e/eb/Kids_Next_Door_Moonbase.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120819001931 Moonbase]] included both a cargo ship ''and'' a submarine in the structure.
121	** The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/9/90/KND_seriously_cool_museum_of_artifacts_and_stuff.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120411053648 Seriously Cool Museum of Artifacts and Stuff]] was built with what looks like a Spanish galleon in the branches of the tree.
122	** The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/1/1d/Kids_Next_Door_Super_Convention_Center.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130108212708 Super Convention Center]], perched in the branches of a tree atop the Empire State Building, has a large cruise ship parked on top of an airport as part of the design.
123	** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/3/3e/300px-Jamaican_Treehouse_%282%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111228041200 Sector J's Treehouse]] base, in Jamaica, is a treehouse built on a palm tree. A large cruise ship with what looks like a cannonball hole in the side is part of the design.
124	** The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/knd/images/2/2b/Guatemala_treehouse.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110411220933 Sector U Treehouse]] in Guatemala appears to have a small boat hung on a lower bough.
125	* ''WesternAnimation/MiddlemostPost'': Middlemost Post was originally Angus's boat before it crashed during a storm, as seen in the opening sequence.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'': Lu and Og's houses are built from the wreckage of the ship that brought their ancestors to the island of Albonquetine.
127	* ''Toys/MonsterHigh: Escape from Skull Shores'': Andy Beast was travelling by boat when a storm stranded it at Skull Shores. It's unknown what happened to the passengers other than Andy -- they may have survived and left Andy to fend for himself or they may have perished. Andy, in any case, used his [[HulkingOut kaiju-esque alternate form]] to refashion the back half of the boat into a treehouse, which remained his home until he moved to Monster High.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In a flashback from "Gone Maggie Gone", a band of nuns sails to the New World on a ship, which they then flip over to use as their convent.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The show [[PlayingWithATrope Plays With]] the trope where it overlaps with ShipshapeShipWreck. The homes and businesses of the underwater city of Bikini Bottom all have a nautical theme to them, naturally including boats and parts of boats (alongside other maritime flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict) in the construction. Most of the buildings appear to be made from old smokestacks, but there are examples of structures made from repurposed boats:
130	** The [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Fancy! Fancy! restaurant]] seen in episodes like "Chocolate with Nuts" and "Krusty Love" is a full-sized ship in a bottle.
131	** [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Goofy_Goober%27s_Ice_Cream_Party_Boat Goofy Goober's]] ice cream parlor and the [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Bikini_Bottom_Museum_of_Boating Museum of Boating]] are both large boats.
132	** The [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Bikini_Bottom_Museum Bikini Bottom Museum]] is a sunken Viking longship.
133	** The [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Thug_Tug Thug Tug]], which appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', is a rough-and-tumble BadGuyBar located in a sunken, ill-kept tug boat.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': The episode "Her Chance To Dream" reveals that Louie's bar is a derelict ship that he remodeled. The ghost of the ship's captain then tries to take it back while romancing Rebecca.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'': In the episode "Raiders of the Abyss" Thundarr visits a tribe that lives in the ancient wreck of a beached cruise ship. The chief of the tribe wears the old captain's hat and uniform as a sign of his authority.
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139	* 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 made 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 original 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.
140	* Fishermen on Lindisfarne are known to 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]].
141	* The house at 200 Descanso Ave., Avalon, 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.
142	* 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. The 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.
143	* 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. While they are floating, they're legally classified as buildings.
144	* ''Star of Kodiak'' (formerly the liberty ship ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Albert_M._Boe Albert M. Boe]]'') was moored in Alaska as a floating cannery in 1965. Over the years the cannery's operation expanded considerably, and the ship became completely surrounded by fill and the growing facility. Today the Star of Kodiak is now completely landlocked, and still serves as the main office of Trident Seafoods.
145	* Clearman's Galley is a restaurant nicknamed "The Boat" in San Gabriel, CA that used to have its kitchen in a converted vintage boat. It was torn down and moved to make way for a short-lived Kohl's in 2008, with a replica of the boat being used out front of the new location rather than having guests walk through it to order their meals as had been the case previously.
146	* During the 1849 California Gold Rush, many ships that arrived in San Francisco were abandoned in the harbor when the crew deserted to go dig for gold. These ships were used as dwelling places and commercial residences for the growing city, and gradually the harbor was filled in and neighborhoods sprung up around them. Few survive today, but construction in San Francisco's financial district sometimes reveals old ships buried underneath skyscrapers.
147	* 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 above, 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.]]
148	* While it can't be proven, tradition holds that the timbers of the ''Mayflower'', the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the Plymouth Colony in 1620, were used several years later to construct what's now called the Mayflower Barn in Buckinghamshire, England.
149	* 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. Decommissioned in 1981, the ship was disassembled in 1986 with the forward superstructure (including the forecastle deck) removed and transported by the barge to South Bass Island (also called Put-in-Bay) in Ohio, East of Toledo and South of Detroit. On arrival it was raised nearly two stories out of the water and situated on a rocky cliff that overlooks the lake. 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.
150	* [[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 encased in concrete and relocated onto land, respectively, as permanently stationary structures.
151	* 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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