- Sunset at Sea after a Storm (1824), Francis Danby
- The Storm, William Etty
- ‘The Whirl’, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Gustave Dore
-The Slave Ship (1840), J.M.W Turner
- A 17th century engraving of how the Sicilian city of Syracuse used the refraction and conversion of sunbeams to set attacking Roman ships alight.
- The Fisherman and The Siren, Knut Ekvall
- The Fisherman and The Syren, Lord Frederick Leighton, 1856-8.
Ship of Fools, Sebastianus Brandt, 1498