Ship tattoo ideas

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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
Colour tattoo on a forearm of a sailor's head in a cap inscribed Cherie, with a whale and a sunset sea scene inside the head, in neo-trad style.
Sailor head with whale on a forearm
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
Neo-traditional full sleeve tattoo on an arm showing a red-sailed ship in a lightning storm above an octopus and sharks in green sea.
Pirate ship and octopus full sleeve
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
Neo-traditional tattoo on a calf of a bearded sailor smoking a pipe, with a sailing ship, orange roses, waves and a lighthouse.
Bearded sailor with ship and roses on a calf
Colour cartoon tattoo of a smiling teacup character with blue wave-like hair and a pink ship-like shape above it, on the outer thigh.
Cartoon teacup character on a thigh
Two mirrored neo-trad tattoos on the calves showing a white sailing ship on red and grey waves inside a black and grey ornate frame.
Sailing ship in an ornate frame on calves
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
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
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
Black and grey pen drawing of a sailing ship in a storm inside an ornate banner, with a lantern above, a compass and skull below and a quote on the scroll.
Ship in storm within ornate banner design
Black and grey drawing of a fish with a sailing ship and waves in its body and a skeletal tail, a neo-traditional style tattoo design on paper.
Ship-filled fish with skeleton tail design
Neo-trad tattoo of a dark-haired pin-up woman hugging her knees, her legs covered in blue tattoo designs, on the outer thigh.
Pin-up woman with blue tattooed legs on a thigh
Colour tattoo of an anchor with a pink bow and a sailing ship inside it, across the upper back, with a pink heart at the base.
Anchor and sailing ship on upper back
Bare back covered in a colourful traditional-style tattoo of a yellow tiger-like figure, an anchor, a ship and a row of roses above a banner.
Large back piece with tiger, anchor and roses
Black and grey flash drawing of a mermaid sitting on rocks beneath a full moon, with a sailing ship, stars and roses, designed as a traditional style tattoo.
Mermaid on rocks with moon and ship