Ship tattoo ideas

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Watercolour and ink tattoo design on paper showing Big Ben, a flying Peter Pan silhouette, a moon with a ship and a dark ink circle around the scene.
Big Ben and Peter Pan watercolour design
Green-toned flash design of a large eye whose iris becomes a scaled wave, with a hummingbird, a sailing ship and pale pink blossom on a beige background.
Eye with waves, hummingbird and blossom flash
Nautical flash sheet of line-art designs in navy and red, including a lighthouse, swallow, whale, anchor, jellyfish and squid on a cream background.
Nautical tattoo flash sheet
Black and grey vintage-style flash sheet showing a key, crown, stag, anchor, butterfly, teacup, sailing ship, fox, camera, swallow and arrows, with no tattoo on skin.
Vintage flash sheet of keys, crown, ship and fox
Black line drawing of a mermaid with scaled tail beside a sailing ship and a large sea creature, a tattoo design sketch with no body part shown.
Mermaid and ship sea monster design
Black and grey traditional flash design of an hourglass reading TEMPUS FUGIT, with a sailing ship in the top bulb and a skull in the bottom bulb.
Hourglass with skull and ship
Traditional-style flash design on paper showing a sailing ship on rough seas and a black and grey rose in a bold black oval frame, with no body part visible.
Sailing ship and rose flash in oval frame
Blue pen sketch of a sailing ship inside a bottle, with a kraken's tentacles reaching up from the waves beside it.
Ship in a bottle with kraken sketch
Black and grey traditional flash of a skull above a trident and anchor rope, framing a ship, a whale and a banner reading Sea Shepherd.
Skull, trident and whale in a rope frame
Blue line drawing of a torso covered in traditional flash designs including a rose, skull, diamond, heart, anchor, snake, candle and ship.
Torso covered in traditional flash motifs
Blue ink drawing of a traditional sailing ship in heavy waves, with a curling banner on the left reading LOVE IS LIKE A TIDE BRINGING YOU HOME, intended as a tattoo design.
Sailing ship and banner design
Black and grey neo-traditional design drawn on tracing paper of a mermaid with a ship, anchor, rope and ship's wheel, with no body placement shown.
Mermaid with ship and ship's wheel design
Black and grey flash sheet of more than fifty small icon designs, including a dagger, anchor, eye, skull, heart and paper plane, with no body placement shown.
Grid of small tattoo flash designs
Traditional flash sheet of ten coloured sailing ships on green waves, with banners reading Hell Bound and Home Ward Bound and a few small stars and a rose.
Sailing ship flash sheet
Black line drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with billowing sails among curling waves, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Sailing ship in rough waves
Black and grey pen drawing of an anchor tattoo design built from a ship, two swallows, a butterfly, roses, a compass and small lettering, in a fine line style.
Anchor tattoo design made of small icons
Coloured flash drawing of a woman in profile with blue hair, a red bandana, a sailing ship and a wave, with neck and chest tattoos of a cat, cross, diamond and heart in a neo-traditional style.
Blue-haired woman with ship and wave
Line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design on a torso, with an eagle, a LOYALTY banner, a ship, a skull and flags, shown in black outline.
Eagle, ship and LOYALTY banner torso design
Black ink pen drawing of a three-masted sailing ship on hatched waves, with a dotted line falling to a small anchor, on plain off-white paper.
Sailing ship and anchor pen drawing
Black line drawing flash sheet of traditional tattoo designs, including a ship, anchor, dagger through a heart, snake, swallow on a padlock and diamond in a laurel wreath, with no placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet of nautical and classic motifs
Black ink drawing of a sailing ship inside a laurel wreath, with the script words The Lady Daisy and a small star below, presented as a tattoo design.
Sailing ship with laurel wreath
Navy line drawing of a bearded sailor in a striped top and cap, with tattooed arms, anchor and rope, and the lettering A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Sailor flash with smooth sea lettering
Traditional flash design laid out across a white body silhouette, covering the arms and torso with an eagle, snakes, dragon, peacock, pin-up, reaper and portrait.
Full-body traditional flash on a white silhouette
Black ink line drawing of a three-masted ship on hatched waves with a dotted line to an anchor, above the script words Life's roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors, on crumpled paper.
Ship, waves and anchor with script quote
Traditional style flash sheet in navy line work showing an anchor with rope, a swallow in flight, a three-masted sailing ship and a cluster of roses on a white background.
Nautical flash sheet with anchor, swallow, ship and roses
A black and white flash sheet of nautical designs including anchors, a lighthouse, a whale, a compass star, a ship's wheel, a sailing boat and a sailing ship.
Nautical flash sheet of anchors, waves and ships
Pencil sketch of a sailing ship inside a bottle with a rope-wound cork, drawn on white paper as a tattoo design.
Ship in a bottle pencil sketch
Traditional flash drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with grey sails and a red pennant, set in a rope oval with grey clouds, a red sun and blue waves.
Sailing ship in a rope frame with setting sun
Traditional-style winged sailing ship design with a globe and banner, printed in red and grey on the back of a black t-shirt.
Winged sailing ship design on a t-shirt
Coloured traditional-style flash drawing of a red and white striped lighthouse framed by a rope border, with a red flower at the top and an anchor at the bottom.
Traditional lighthouse and anchor flash design
Neo-traditional style line drawing of a woman with octopus tentacles and a sailing ship, shaded in red wash on a cream background.
Woman with octopus tentacles and a ship
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a ship's wheel enclosing a sailing ship, a flower below, and the words DARLIN IM NOT above and COMIN HOME below.
Ship's wheel and flower sketch with lettering
Black and grey flash sheet of separate tattoo designs including a bird, skull, anchor, key, compass rose, moth, butterfly and a sailing ship, with no body placement shown.
Black and grey tattoo flash sheet
Purple line drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with full sails cutting through stylised waves, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Sailing ship on waves line drawing
Traditional style flash drawing of a sailing ship framed by red roses, a yellow butterfly and crabs, drawn on paper.
Ship, roses and butterfly flash design
Coloured pencil tattoo design of a mermaid wearing a rose crown, drawn in a neo-traditional style with no body part shown.
Mermaid with rose crown and ship design
Black line drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with billowing sails above a cluster of roses and leaves, in a traditional flash style.
Sailing ship above a cluster of roses
Pen and ink sketch of a sailing ship whose hull forms a dripping skull, drawn on an open sketchbook page.
Skull ship pen sketch
Traditional-style flash drawing of a ship in a heart framed by roses, with the words Beyond the Sea in black outline lettering.
Ship in a heart with roses flash design
Black ink fine line drawing of a sailing ship on waves with the words a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor and a dangling anchor, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Sailing ship, waves and anchor with quote
Black ink drawing of a three-masted sailing ship riding interwoven waves, with a hanging anchor on a thin line, in a traditional nautical design shown on cream paper.
Sailing ship on waves with anchor
Black line drawing of a ship in a glass bottle above an octopus and a whale, with a rose at the base and ribbon banners, in a traditional style.
Ship in a bottle with octopus and whale
Purple line drawing of a mermaid in a pirate hat holding a pipe beside a treasure chest, skulls and a shipwreck, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Mermaid pirate with treasure chest and skulls
Blue line drawing in traditional style of a moustached man whose chest and shoulders show a woman's portrait with a rose, a ship, an anchor and hearts, framed by dotwork shading and stars.
Tattooed man with woman portrait and nautical motifs
Black ink pen drawing of a sailing ship on rough waves with a dangling anchor and the script words a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, on white paper.
Sailing ship and anchor with quote
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including skulls, a cat, a rose, a dagger, an owl and a rabbit, many marked with the number 13, shown as drawings with no body placement.
Hand-drawn flash sheet with 13 motifs
Painted tattoo design of a sailing ship rising from a teacup under storm clouds and lightning, beside a red rose, shown as a framed drawing.
Ship in a teacup with storm clouds and rose
Pen and ink tattoo design sketch of a kraken with tentacles wrapping a sailing ship, with lightning bolts and ornate scrollwork in a neo-traditional style.
Kraken wrapped around a sailing ship