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Helene's page is awesome and likely very accurate, so Maxlike.

You should make a little Max hologram to click on to enter your site.

Thanks, for your site!

-D

I thought it would be helpful to start a mini-database, listing all of the ships, planes, subs, trains, automobiles, or anything else used for transportation in any of the Cussler novels. If you list a train, ship or plane, please include the name, make or model of each, along with what novel it is from. Once we have a completed list I will compile it into a more easily readable format and post it for future reference.
Take care
Mike

Dirk Pitt Revealed has a lot of the names of the ocean-going vessels and Pitt's autos in each novel, at least up to Flood Tide. Anything after that would have to be researched manually.
Good idea, Mike!

Can't forget the famous "bathtub with onboard motor"!

Ok, great idea NUMA_Diver !

Here's one I found for your "ships" catagory ;

The Viking cargo ship of the "knarr" class in Valhalla Rising.

Knarrs were the bulkier, utilitarian trading ships of the Norse peoples. Though not as sleek as the longships, it was knarrs that crossed the North Atlantic. And it was in a knarr that Leif Eriksson explored Finland.

Around 60 ft long and 15 ft wide, it could carry 15 tons.

In Valhalla Rising, expedition leader to the New World, Bjarne Sigvatson sailed this type of vessel across the Atlantic.

Cheers ...

Here is one that is interesting. In Valhalla Rising, Dirk and Al used a luxury submarine, that looked more like a yacht than a sub, to attach an explosive device to the hull of the Mongol Invader by using a spar like the one installed on the Hunley. The sub was the Coral Wanderer. If you are interested in checking these fascinating submarines out, click on this link The Real Coral Wanderer. Also take a moment to look around their site, it is great.
Take care
Mike

The Moller Skycar from Atlantis Found

This from the book ;

"The Moller M400 Skycar wasn't much larger than a jeep Cherokee, but it was as stable in flight as a much larger aircraft, and capable of being piloted down city streets and parked in a residential garage. The aerodynamic design, with its sloping, conical bow, gave it a look somewhere between a General Motors car of the future and a rocket fighter out of Star Wars. The four lift/thrust nacelles each held two counter-rotating engines, enabling the Moller to lift off the ground like a helicopter and move horizontally like a conventional aircraft at a cruising speed of three hundred miles an hour, with an operational ceiling of 30,000 feet. Lose an engine or two and it could still land safely without discomfort to the passengers. Even if it suffered a catastrophic component failure, dual airframe parachutes would be deployed to lower the Skycar and its occupants to the ground, undamaged and unhurt."

Well you've mentioned it, I thought I show a picture as rendered by artist Frank Bolle, and made available in limited editon and signed by Clive thru the Clive Cussler Collector Society:

Whoa! I want that!

Skycar,

If you goto the moller.com website you can see a video of the skycar flying. Neat little company. Wish they had hired me.

-D

This is an interesting area. Have a few more in my files waiting to add various areas including the Numa page on my site.

NUMA Vessels:
 First Attempt, a research ship-The Mediterranean Caper and Raise the Titanic!
 Sappho 1, a NUMA research submersible-Raise the Titanic! and Night Probe!
 Doodlebug, a NUMA research vessel (three-man crew)-Night Probe!
etc.

:rolleyes:

BUT the Dear Heart vessel in Trojan Odyssey has already prompted a review on my part for several "dear heart" phrases CC used in several books prior to this one.

Iceberg- An antique Ford trimotor aircraft, famed in History as the Tin Goose!!
Also in RT Titanic- A Grumman F4F World War II aircraft..

Grumman F4F






Ford Trimotor "Tin Goose"

Valhalla Rising- A World War I Fokker DR. I triplane, A blue 1932 Sikorsky S-38 amphibian that could land on water as well as land..
A 1934 Douglas DC-3 nicknamed 'Old Reliable'..


Sikorsky S-38






Fokker Dr. I Triplane

Let us not forget the Wallowing Windbag from Inca Gold. I don't believe I can find a pic.

There is also the 1936 Pierce-Arrow and Travelodge Trailer from Inca Gold. Can you think of a more amazing way to travel across country. You can see it at:

Pierce Arrow

then follow the "Clives biler" for a list of automobiles.

HalaKamil,

Fantastic site !!

Thanks for the link ;)

That site has pictures and info of a lot of cars, aircraft etc. used in Clive's books.

Great work !!

As most people willcome up with the obvious, I've looked closely at Cyclops, although not used personally by the main caracters does Columbus the space station and Gettysburg the space shuttle count page 334 in my copy?

The SPUT ( The special-perpose underwater transporter loked nothing like any submarine Pitt had ever seen. The craft was slightly over three hundred foot long and shaped like a chisel turned sideways) Cyclops p 338

Water Dashers, small water propulsion vehicle made in France, looks like two torpedos side by side. Also page 338 Cyclops

Also I seem to remeber a story of an old Galleon being washed in to the jungle 20 miles or so on a tidal wave / tsunami what was its name Pitt found it by being dropped into the jungle by a helicopter flown by Al.

427 ci AC Ford Cobra (drool), Pacific Vortex & Night Probe. To quote Zerri Pochinsky (cracking name by the way) Sandecker's secretary in Night Probe, "....fun, fun but what awful gas mileage!"

I think my all time favorite is the Skycar. If I had a spare $995,000.00 lying
around, I'd order one today. However, I used to work on DC-6s and the C-54
in Pacific Vortex that Pitt crashed into the sea is the military version of a DC-4.

These are part of Dirk's private collection:

WWII Messerschmitt ME 262 jet fighter

Pullman railroad car, Manhattan Limited

We can`t forget the Antarctic Snow Cruiser he drove in Atlantis found.I don`t know if this is what you meant by `any other transportation`, but do you remember the donkey he rode in The Mediterranean caper?

Let us not overlook the obvious. Shall I mention the Titanic? Largest vessel of its kind at the time. Sorry, I'm not biased or anything. :lol:

Yeah a little late but my god, that skycar is awsome, does that thing really work! I want one :D

A few more ships mentioned in Dr. C.`s books: The Empress of Ireland (Night Probe), the USS Iowa (Vixen 03), the Stonewall Jackson (Deep Six), the presidential yacht Eagle (Deep Six), the tramp steamer Pilottown (Deep Six), and I don`t remember the name of the sidewheel ferry boat used in Inca Gold.

Of course. How could one forget it? But how to describe it?

"A small bathtub outfitted with an outboard motor used to escape a Cuban military facility."

I think somebody else said this - CC & DP revealed does provide a comprehensive list of planes, ships, car, and what ever else.

Personally I love the Motorized bathtub and Pullman Car

I guess I just have a good memory for the more obscure forms of transport they`ve used. I recall in Night Probe the chapter where Pitt conned Al into operating the railroad handcar in the middle of a thunderstorm.

Have we all forgotten about the land yacht in "Sahara" made from parts from Kitty Manock's plane?

Neither can we forget Raymond LeBaron`s airship the Prosperteer used in Cyclops. w:

Lets See Here:


PROSPERTEER: Airship owned by financial Tycoon Raymond LeBaron. Originaly called ZMC-2 (ZEPPLIN METAL CLAD #2) Powered by two Wright Whirlwind engines with average speed of 60 mph. After LeBaron's disapperance, the Prosperteer appears near Miami and narrowly avoids a crash landing. Later, it crash lands into sea after firefight with Cuban gunboats and chopper. Pitt, Giordino, Gunn, and Jessie LeBaron are aboard Prosperteer on its final voyage. All survive.

DENNING'S DEMON'S: B-29 superfortress bomber assigned to take atomic bomb (Code Name: Mother's Breath) and drop it on Osaka, Japan. Is shot down and destroyed by Japanese "Zero" fighter plane only 1 hour from bombing run. Later discovered by Dirk Pitt on his mission to use the A-Bomb in the plane to wipe out Hideki Suma's nuclear bomb control center on Soseki Island.

MANHATTAN LIMITED: Passenger train that Richard Essex travels on to deliver North American Treaty. Pulled by 2-8-0 consolidation locomotive. Essex's private government car is at the rear end of the train. According to history books, the Limited plunged off the badly damaged Deauville-Hudson Bridge and was lost with all hundred people aboard. Later found by Dirk Pitt. Private pullman car now in his collection.