Throughout the James Bond series of films and novels, Q Branch has given Bond a variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. Among the most noteworthy gadgets, Bond has been equipped with various vehicles that have numerous modifications to include elaborate weapons and anti-pursuit systems, alternative transportation modes, and various other functions. One car in particular that has been linked to Mr. Bond's collection is the Aston Martin DB5.
This is a list of noteworthy vehicles seen in James Bond, used by either Bond himself, his allies, or his enemies.
Used as a getaway car after the murder of Strangways. Appears again later in the film chasing Bond in the Blue Mountains. A Humber Super Snipe MK11 was used as a stand-in when the vehicle drives off a cliff.
Dr No's henchman "Mr Jones" picks up Bond from Palisadoes Airport in this stolen car. After Jones dies, Bond drives the car to Government House, making it the first car Bond drives in the series. A speedometer close-up is actually from a 1957 Ford.
Near the beginning of the film, this car appears parked. No details about the car appear in the film, however, based on the dialogue from Goldfinger this is James Bond's first Q Branch equipped vehicle. After Bond asks about it, Q responds, "It's had its day, I'm afraid. M's orders, 007." The only gadget that is visible is a car phone. The car in the movie is chassis no. B4MR (body no. 3626) and has number plate EYX 393. Bentley initially kept it for trials and in 1941 sold it to Lt. P. W. Pedley.
Bond and Kerim take this wagon to the gypsy camp. It appears later driven by one of Kerim's sons to the rendezvous with the Orient Express. The vehicle in the first scene was a two-door, while the one that appears later in the film was a four-door.
There were a total of four Goldfinger DB5s. Two of these were used in filming and two were used only for promotional purposes. The first filming car, DP/2161/1, was added with gadgets.[2] This DB5 was the original prototype and was painted Dubonnet Red. Before it appeared in Goldfinger, it was used in episode 2.17, "The Noble Sportsman," of The Saint. On 18 June 1997, it was stolen in Florida from its owner, Anthony Pugliese.[3] In August 2021 the Telegraph reported that Art Recovery International had found the car in the Middle East.[4] The second filming car, DB5/1486/R, was used for driving scenes and had no gadgets. After filming, gadgets were added and the car was used for promotion. It features the pop-out gun barrels behind the front indicators, the bullet shield behind the rear window, and a three-way revolving front number plate showing "LU 6789" or "4711-EA-62" or "BMT 216A." In 2010, RM Auctions sold the car for $4.6 million to Harry Yeaggy.[5][6] The first publicity car, DB5/2017/R, now belongs to the Louwman Museum in The Hague.[7] The second publicity car, DB5/2008/R, was auctioned by RM Sotheby's in August 2019 for $6.4 million to an unknown buyer.[8]
The Goldfinger Rolls-Royce was built in 1937 for Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven. In 1962 he sold the car to Eon. The car used in the film is chassis no. 3BU168, a Barker sedanca de ville. Between 1986 and 2000 it was owned by Steven Greenberg. It is still in private ownership.
After Bond is captured in the forest, Odd Job takes this car back to the factory. The car is painted Blue Grey over a red interior, contrasting with the black 190s.
Mr. Solo is shot in the backseat by Oddjob and the vehicle is driven to a junkyard and crushed in a baling press. The vehicle which is crushed is a 1963 model with its engine removed. Later in the film, a pair (a sedan and a convertible) bring Bond to the airport on behalf of the U.S. Government.
Appears in the pre-credits sequence as Bond makes his escape, where the rear-facing water cannon are activated (this gadget was not referred to in Goldfinger), and this fades into the aquatically themed credits sequence. Both of the filming cars from Goldfinger appear in Thunderball.
As a punishment for failing to dispose of Bond, Lippe is killed in his Fairlane, which is blown up by villainess Fiona Volpe using rocket launchers mounted on her BSA motorbike.
Mercedes-Benz 190 Ambulance (1964)
Shrublands
Brings François Derval's body to the hospital. Seen again in the background as Bond leaves the next morning.
Used by Aki during Bond's time in Tokyo. This vehicle was unique as the 2000GT did not have a convertible version. Due to his height, Connery could not fit in the car, and thus Toyota built one-off cars for the film. Eon ordered two cars, one for filming and one for backup. After the shooting was completed, the filming car was sent to England for promotional use. At this time it was customized with gadgets by John Stears. At some point around the film's release, it disappeared and its whereabouts are unknown. The second car was displayed in March 1967 at the Geneva Motor Show and was then used at the Fuji Speedway as a course car. In 1977 Toyota purchased it from its owner in Hawaii, and it is on display at the Toyota Automobile Museum.[9]
The car was seen in four scenes, including the pre-credits teaser and as James and Tracy's wedding car. The car has a hiding place for a sniper rifle in the glovebox. It was not fitted with bulletproof glass as per the end of that movie. The DBS is glimpsed in the subsequent film, Diamonds Are Forever, parked up in Q Branch back in London when Bond calls Q from Amsterdam. Two cars were lent by Aston for On Her Majesty's Secret Service: DBS/5109/R for studio scenes and DBS/5234/R for exterior shots. Both used the registration GKX 8G. One of the two cars now belongs to Sigi Zidziunas of Melbourne.[10]
Red on Red 1969 Convertible, driven by Tracy onto a Portuguese beach where she attempts suicide, later in a winter stock-car race on an ice-covered track to help Bond escape from Blofeld's henchmen and Irma Bund. Three cars were used in the film. The car used in the rally sequence was scrapped after filming. One car, serial 9F94R549292, sold at Bonhams in December 2020 for £356,500.[11] Another is owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation.[12]
Car is seen parked at M's house, "Quarterdeck." This car is chassis number 4BP7 and was built for Princess Margaret, who used it under the registration PM 6450. A Pegasus emblem adorns the radiator. In 1967 she sold it to A. W. D. Adams, who registered it as 302 HYP, which is how it appears in the film. In June 2021 it was sold by RM Sotheby's for ₣ 2.25 million (it is currently SORN under its original registration number).[13]
Commandeered by Bond at the Port of Dover and takes it to Amsterdam. The car in the film is a pre-production Mark I, build number LD14. It was owned for a time by the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum and in 2011 was purchased by Michael Dezer. In 2014 Dezer sold it to an unknown buyer.
Saxby picks up the diamonds from McCarran Airport and then trades vehicles with Metz at a gas station. After Tiffany creates a diversion in the gas station, Bond sneaks into the back of the van to gain access to the Whyte Tectronics facility.
James Bond (1963 convertible while in San Monique) / Kananga's henchmen / J.W.Pepper / Louisiana State Police / New York City taxicab
Various 1973 Chevrolets appear throughout the film. During the car chase down Manhattan's FDR Drive, nearly all the cars which Bond's out-of-control taxicab encounters are 1973 Impalas and Chevelles.
San Monique Police, Kananga's henchmen in New Orleans
Two of these police cars are seen chasing Bond's stolen AEC Regent RT-type-double-decker bus with three motorcycles across San Monique. Also seen chasing Bond's stolen Cessna 170A around an airfield in New Orleans.
This is a combination of a Chevy Corvette and a Cadillac El Dorado, custom made by Dunham coaches (which was known at the time for its customized pimpmobiles). It is driven in the movie by the Kananga henchmen, Whisper, who fires a poison dart from its side mirror at the driver of Bond's taxi.
Featured in The Man with the Golden Gun.[14] Bond steals this red 1974 hatchback from an AMC dealership in Bangkok, Thailand. He makes his exit by crashing through the showroom window.[15] unknowing that Sheriff J.W. Pepper was in it looking to test drive it. A Hornet was also used for the famous twisting corkscrew aerial jump that was captured in just one filming sequence.[16][17] A special modified car performed the stunt with a lower stance and larger wheel wells (just as the Astro Spiral Javelin stunt cars that performed that same jump in AMC sponsored thrill shows) compared to the stock Hornet X model in all of its other appearances in the movie. Seven tests were performed in advance before the one jump performed by an uncredited British stuntman "Bumps" Willert for the film with six (or 8, depending on the source) cameras simultaneously rolling.[18] Two frogmen were positioned in the water, as well as an emergency vehicle and a crane were ready, but not needed. An engineer[19] at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL) used computer modeling to calculate the stunt and specified 1,460.06 kilograms (3,219 lb) for the weight of car and driver, the exact angles and the 15.86-metre (52 ft) distance between the ramps, as well as the 64.36-kilometre-per-hour (40 mph) launch speed.[20] This vehicle is on display at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire.[21] The ramps and the modified jump car are still in the possession of the Jay Milligan's stunt company, JM Productions in Hamburg, New York.
The featured car in The Man with the Golden Gun.[22] "Bond is foiled by perhaps the best trick a getaway car has ever performed; the Matador transforms into a plane."[23]Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack use this 1974 car to kidnap Mary Goodnight and make their escape. In the film, the Matador coupe is converted into a 'car plane' to fly from Bangkok to an island in the China Sea. With the flight tail unit, the complete machine was 9.15 metres (30 ft) long, 12.80 metres (42 ft) wide, and 3.08 metres (10 ft) high and the "flying AMC Matador" was exhibited at auto shows; however, it could only make a 500-metre (1,640 ft) flight so for the film's aerial sequences it was replaced by a meter-long (39-inch) remote controlled model.[20] Transformation of the AMC Matador into a light airplane occurred when wings and flight tail unit were attached to the actual car (that served as the fuselage and landing gear) and a stuntman drove the 'car plane' to a runway at which point the scene cut to the radio-controlled scale model built by John Stears.[18] See Aircraft section below.
The featured police car in The Man with the Golden Gun.[24] The 1974 Matador used in the chase is a left-hand drive model although Thailand operates with UK style left-hand traffic rules.
This tan MGB is owned by Hong Kong's MI6 agent Mary Goodnight. She and Bond follow Andrea Anders in her dark green Rolls-Royce; they end up at the Peninsula Hotel where Bond discovers that they have a fleet of dark green Rolls-Royces.
Used by Jaws posing as a telephone engineer. He subsequently tears it apart trying to thwart Bond and Anya's escape. The van's engine eventually overheats and seizes in the middle of the desert
The windscreen is sprayed with paint by Bond's Lotus Esprit and the driver loses control. As result, the car careers off a mountainside and crashes through a barn roof. Jaws walks away from the crash unscathed.
Delivered to Bond by Q in Sardinia, this Lotus Esprit is capable of transforming into a submarine. In this mode, it is equipped with anti-aircraft missiles (wherein one was used to take down the helicopter hovering above 007 and XXX). This car is on display in the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.[25]RM Auctions auctioned the white Lotus Esprit submarine in London on September 9, 2013, for £550,000 ($865,000).[26]
Used in a major car chase, after Bond's own car – Lotus Esprit Turbo – explodes. Bond and love interest Melina Havelock are pursued by evil henchmen in Peugeot 504s. The chase includes a hairpin road, an olive orchard, and a village. At one point the 2CV is on its side and is righted by hand. Bond and Havelock dispatch their pursuers with car accidents and make their escape. The car is on display at the Orlando Auto Museum in Florida.
Two Esprits are featured in this film. The first, a white model driven by Bond in Spain, is destroyed when a thug trips its self-destruct system by breaking the driver's side window (with a sticker labeled "burglar protected"). The second one is a bronze model driven by Bond at a ski resort in Northern Italy. The two cars were not repainted Essex-spec Turbo Esprits, but specially commissioned cars. The car is on display at the Orlando Auto Museum in Florida.
After the raid on Kristatos's base in Albania, Locque attempts to escape Bond in the car by driving along a cliffside road. While driving, he is shot by Bond and loses control, resulting in the car hanging perilously off the edge. Bond kicks the car off the cliff to finish off Locque.
Bond steals the parked car while its owner uses a pay phone booth and makes haste towards Octopussy's Circus, pursued by two Bavarian BMW police cars.[29]
Two of these cars are seen in a short chase scene when Bond commandeers an Alfa Romeo GTV6 and makes haste towards Octopussy's circus. These two cars are in pursuit.
After the tires get torn off by a stinger device, Bond drives the car on the railway tracks in pursuit of the circus train. It was subsequently hit by a train coming down the opposite line and thrown into a river. It is later seen being recovered via crane and covered in seaweed.
After Tibbet's murder, his corpse and an unconscious Bond are pushed into a lake in the car by May Day and Max Zorin. (The car in the film was owned by producer Cubby Broccoli)
Featured in A View to a Kill as a San Francisco Police Department patrol car. A few late 1970s Dodge Monacos were seen, along with a Plymouth Volaré seen outside San Francisco City Hall. Late 1980s Diplomats were also featured in Licence to Kill as the squad cars in Key West, Florida (some may have been identical Plymouth Gran Furys).
Featured in A View to a Kill, Bond commandeers this car and takes it on a pursuit through Paris. He drives the car on stairs, under barriers, and on top of buses. During the pursuit, the car has its roof chopped off and Bond continues to drive even after the entire back half of the car is ripped off.
A convertible, it is later "winterised" with a hardtop. It comes with all the usual refinements, including extending side outriggers, spike-producing tires, missiles, lasers (an update of the DB5's tire-slashers), signal-intercepting smart radio, head-up display, and rocket propulsion. It could also self-destruct when primed.
Used as a part of General Koskov's defection and escape to Austria. This was an 'Exclusiv' model with flared wheel arches and 16 inch BBS RS split-rim alloy wheels. The car has a Vienna registration, W 207.182. The car is in the ownership of the Audi Museum in Ingolstadt, Germany.
Several are engaged in the pursuit and are destroyed at the hands of Bond's Aston Martin, the first is cut in half by the Aston's laser tyre shredder, the second is sunk into a frozen lake after the Aston cuts a hole in the ice, while another plummets from a ramp and goes through a shed.
Driven by Necros, this ambulance is only featured for a short time. During the short scene, Necros drives the ambulance from the airport terminal in Tangier across the tarmac to Koskov's plane, with the drugged Bond in the back.
Featured briefly in the film The Living Daylights, two of these cars are seen driving across Tangier, with Bond in pursuit. One of the cars is carrying the Soviet General Pushkin.
A 1976 Renegade-II is seen in Licence to Kill.[31] It is used by Sanchez's henchman Perez, who fires a FIM-92 Stinger missile at a commandeered oil tanker where Bond does a wheelie (in this scene, Bond crushes the Jeep).
Xenia Onatopp playfully races James Bond in his Aston Martin DB5 by chance on the mountain roads behind Monte Carlo in this vehicle, which is later revealed to have false French registration plates, hinting that it may be stolen. Another 355 appears twice in Die Another Day during the opening sequence and later on in the An-124 airplane. It is then pushed out of the plane along with the Lamborghini Diablo.
Supposedly equipped with 'Stinger' missiles and other armaments, which are never seen or used except for a deployable parachute and auto-HUD. Car is left-hand drive. Total screen time less than two minutes.
Loaned to Bond by Q at an Avis rental station in Germany, this car is equipped with missile launchers, caltrops, self-inflating tires, and a near-impenetrable body. The BMW can be remotely controlled via a special Ericsson cell phone. During a chase inside a carpark, Bond exits the car and remotely drives it to the rooftop, sending it flying off the carpark before crash-landing into an Avis station across the street.
Cut in half by chopper after firing one shot from a surface-to-air missile (SAM). Other gadgets involve a key that can summon the vehicle and a hidden remote control within the steering wheel.
The car is equipped with all the usual refinements, including front-firing rockets between two machine guns, hood-mounted target-seeking shotguns, spike-producing tires, again and a passenger ejector seat in homage to the original Aston Martin DB5, but used here in a clever bit of improvisation by 007 to right the car when it has been flipped onto its roof. The Aston was also equipped with "adaptive camouflage" – a cloaking device that allowed it to become effectively invisible at the push of a button. This vehicle was also featured in the video games Nightfire (2002), Everything or Nothing (2004) and 007 Legends
Ford Fairlane is briefly driven by Bond during his visit to Cuba in Die Another Day. A homage to Thunderball where villain Count Lippe drives a 1957 Ford Fairlane Skyliner.
Part of Colonel Moon's car collection. Shown parked at the North Korean military base near the DMZ. Later shown inside Graves's plane where it falls off and is presumably destroyed.
Featured in the third Casino Royale.[37] No special gadget was visible on the DBS other than the secret compartments which housed Bond's Walther P99, and an emergency medkit which includes components of an emergency medical link to MI6 HQ, antidotes to various poisons, and a small defibrillator. The DBS is rolled and destroyed during a high pursuit car chase where 007 swerves to avoid a tied-up Vesper Lynd in the middle of the road.
Bond deliberately crashes it in a hotel parking lot to serve as a distraction. A black version of the Range Rover Vogue is one of the cars used by Le Chiffre's henchmen.
Shortly after capturing Mr. White, Bond is chased by two Alfas from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy. Despite sustaining heavy damage, Bond's Aston Martin DBS manages to escape while both Alfas are destroyed.
A slightly darker-coloured vehicle to that featured in Casino Royale is heavily damaged after a chase at the beginning of the film in Siena, Italy. The vehicle does not have any gadgets. It transports Mr. White.
Dominic Greene is chauffeured from the airport to the Spectre meeting in this car. The government agent Bond chases off the roof falls on the bonnet of the car, before being shot by one of Dominic Greene's henchmen.
The right-hand drive gadget-filled Aston Martin DB5 inexplicably returned in 2012's Skyfall. Two gadgets are shown on this vehicle, the ejector seat and two front-firing machine guns. This is the first time machine guns have been used in action since 1964's Goldfinger. This car is destroyed in the climactic battle scene. An Aston Martin DB5 appeared in 007: Blood Stone and shared a similar fate to the DB5 in Skyfall.
Driven by Patricé in a car chase through Istanbul that precedes the film's opening titles. The car ends up flipped over and he continues his escape on a Honda motorbike.
Used to transport Raoul Silva whilst disguised as a police officer, to proceed to the inquiry. It is then driven by Raoul Silva as an escape vehicle after the attack on the inquiry.
During the pre-credits sequence, several of these 2nd Generation Beetles are knocked off the train, and others driven over, by Bond after he commandeers an excavator.
Bond absconds to Rome with the vehicle. Gadgets include a rear-facing double-barreled gun sticking out of the Aston Martin badge (that Q forgot to load ammo with), a rear-facing flamethrower, and an ejection seat with a parachute. Following a chase and successful ejection, Bond sinks the car in the Tiber.
A car owned by a Roman in which Bond uses his car to push out of the way resulting its driver to hit a nearby pole causing the airbag to be activated during a chase in Rome.
Used by Mr. Hinx to pursue Bond (who drives the Aston Martin DB10) across Rome. In the car chase, Bond sets the front end on fire by activating his DB10's flamethrower hidden in the exhaust. Mr. Hinx gives up chasing Bond when Bond ejects from the DB10, sinking it in the Tiber.
The car, a red and black 1948 model, is driven by one of Blofeld's assistants to pick up Bond and Dr. Madeleine Swann from the train station on their way to Blofeld's compound in North Africa.
Following its rebuild, it is used by Bond who drives it to go to Matera along with Madeleine for vacation. Bond uses it when he and Madeleine escape from Matera during an ambush set up by Spectre assassins led by Primo. In the film, the DB5 is equipped with M134 miniguns that pop out in the front headlights, a mine dispenser on the rear bumper, as well as the classic smokescreen device.
Shown when Bond uses it to return to MI6. Also used to go to Norway where Bond finds out Madeleine has a daughter. Later driven by Madeleine at the end of the film where she takes her daughter Mathilde to Matera.
Seen when Nomi picks up Bond to go to the airport for their mission to infiltrate Safin's base to rescue Madeleine and Mathilde as well as to foil his plot from unleashing the nanobots all over the world.
A 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air is used by a Spectre agent in an attempt to kill Bond and Paloma while investigating a SPECTRE meeting in Cuba. Paloma later steals it in an attempt to ram over a structure so Vladvo can be captured.
Used by forces led by Logan Ash to track down Bond, Madeleine, and Mathilde in Norway. One Defender crashes when Bond lures it to a nearby hillside. A second Defender is destroyed by Bond who uses a grenade from his machine gun before killing its driver. Bond uses the vehicle's grappling hook device to lure a biker. A third Land Rover Defender tries to ram over Bond with Logan Ash riding it as a passenger to kill Bond, though the vehicle hits a downed tree trunk and flips over.
Shown arriving at the scene attempting to arrest Nomi, Bond, and Paloma, though Nomi users her gun to shoot a power grid as a distraction so Bond can escape.
Used to escape from San Monique's police force. The upper deck of this bus got torn off after Bond drove under a low bridge; the removed upper deck unintentionally came in useful, as a police car crashed into it and then drove into a lake
Serving as a Miami International Airport fuel truck, it is stolen by Carlos Nikolic during an attempted bombing of the brand new Skyfleet S570 prototype.
Spectre assassins use Triumph Tiger 900 bikes to chase down Bond at Matera. Several Tiger 900 bikes are also used by Safin's henchmen when they chase down Bond, Madeleine, and Mathilde in Norway.
Spectre assassins including Primo use Triumph Scrambler bikes to chase down Bond at Matera. Bond is able to steal one from Primo and uses it to go back to the hotel to get Madeleine and escape Matera. Safin's mercenaries also use Scrambler 1200 bikes to chase down Bond, Madeleine, and Mathilde in Norway.
Bond uses the London Underground District Line to chase Silva from Temple Station to Embankment (96069). Later on, Silva blows up a section of the tunnel causing another tube to crash into a subterranean space. While the train is shown to be the District Line in the film, the 1996 Stock never actually served the line and filming took place at Charing Cross, a disused Jubilee Line station.
Spectre
Oriental Desert Express with locomotive ONCF-series DH 370 (EMD GT26CW-2)
An Italian high-speed train is shown picking up Madeleine after Bond drops her off at the Sapri railway station in Matera, believing that she betrayed him.
Bond takes this plane from London to Kingston. It survives the movie, intact.
The footage of the plane landing was taken from a Pan Am promotional film and was shot at the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, with the main terminal clearly visible in the background. The real life identity of this airframe is unknown. Though the British de Haviland Comet was the first civil jetliner in history, it was a commercial failure. The Boeing 707 was the world's first commercially successful jet airliner - and is, thus, responsible for the popularity of jet air travel more than any other aircraft. In 1962, however, this kind of air travel was very expensive and only the rich or those with corporate expense accounts could afford it. They were known as the "jet-set'". As such, "Dr. No" is often considered to be the first "jet-setter" movie - which would have been considered quite glamorous at the time.[citation needed]
Bond takes this plane from London to Istanbul. It survives the movie, intact. In real life, this airframe was "Jet Clipper Endeavor," serial number 18337, registered as N762PA. The plane was scrapped sometime in the 1980s.
This light helicopter delivers Rosa Klebb to the SPECTRE Island training base. It later attacks Bond's commandeered truck on a mountain road along the Dalmatian Coast. Clearly inspired by the crop-duster scene in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest", Bond dismounts the truck on foot and the chopper swoops down to make several ramming passes at him. It is destroyed when Bond uses his folding sniper rifle to shoot the co-pilot, just as he is about to throw a grenade. This causes the crewman to drop his grenade in the cabin - which, in turn, blows the aircraft out of the sky. A scale model on a miniature set is used for the destruction scene. In real life, this airframe was serial WH6003 (N780ND). Now owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation.[42]
Flown by Pussy Galore, a captive Bond is transported aboard this, Goldfinger's private business jet, from Geneva Airport in Switzerland to Blue Grass Airfield in Kentucky, via Friendship International Airport in Baltimore. It survives the movie, intact. A scale model on a miniature set was used in some scenes. The Lockheed JetStar was the world's first business jet. In real life, this airframe was JetStar 5023, registered at the time as N711Z. In 2021, the Ian Fleming Foundation acquired part of the fuselage and began restoring it.[43]
Lockheed VC-140 JetStar
United States Government
A US military variant of the civil JetStar, used as a V.I.P. transport. This liaison jet is sent by the US president to pick Bond up from Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox, Kentucky, by the US president for the purpose of transporting 007 to Washington DC, for a congratulatory lunch at the White House - but it has been hijacked by Goldfinger, with Pussy Galore at the controls. During an onboard confrontation between Bond and the villain, a window gets shot out and Goldfinger is sucked out of the plane by rapid decompression. This also disables the JetStar, itself, forcing 007 and Pussy Galore to bail out, just before the aircraft crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. This is the same airframe that was used as Goldfinger's private jet, but it has been re-painted in US government livery. A scale model on a miniature set was used in some scenes.
A four-seat, extended cabin version of the standard Hiller UH-12. Flown by Pussy Galore, this helicopter brings Goldfinger to Fort Knox, along with his atomic bomb. It survives the movie. In real life, the airframe is serial number 2070 (G-ASAZ). This helicopter was later owned by Hields Aviation. In 2015 Honor Blackman was given a flight in it, 51 years after the release of the film.[44]
Providing regular car ferry service across the English Channel in the 1960s, this iconic British plane was modified from the 4-engine, propeller driven, Douglas DC-4 airliner (or its military C-54 Skymaster variant). Goldfinger and Oddjob, (along with the villain's Rolls Royce) take this plane from London's Municipal Southend Airport to Geneva Airport in Switzerland, as Bond waits to follow (with his Aston Martin) on the next Carvair flight. It survives the movie. In real life, this airframe is serial number 10273 (G-ASDC), a former Douglas C-54A Skymaster, ex-USAAF 42–72168. Crashed in Venetie, Alaska on 28 June 1997 as N103.[45] The wreck remains in situ. 67°01′17″N146°31′55″W / 67.021307°N 146.532058°W / 67.021307; -146.532058
In common private operation at the time, 4 of these Cherokee light planes, and 1 Cherokee Pathfinder variant are flown by the all-female aviatrix team of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus. They are seen by Bond training in formation flying over Bluegrass Airfield in Kentucky - but they are mainly used in a dawn raid against Fort Knox to disperse what is supposed to be Delta-9 nerve gas in preparation for Goldfinger's "Operation Grand Slam" (but the gas has been switched to an inert substitute). All survive the movie, intact. During filming of external flying shots the female pilots were actually male pilots in wigs. In real life, these airframes had serial numbers 28-20068 (N6056W), 28-1658 (N5781W), 28-1400 (N7489W), 28-1613 (N7641W), and 28-10264 (N8729W).
In the final scene, one of these relatively rare helicopters (flown by an unnamed pilot) is used by Felix Leiter to search for Bond and Pussy Galore after the JetStar crash. It survives the movie, intact. Real life identity, unknown.
A famous WWII military version of the equally famous, twin engine, propeller driven, DC-3 airliner (still in fairly common service by the early '60s). Two of these are seen parked in the background on Godman Airfield at Fort Knox, as Bond is seen off in the Presidential jet. Both survive the movie, intact. Real life identities, unknown.
Used by Leiter and Bond to search for the submerged Vulcan. The helicopter in the film was serial number 3302 (N1190W). Written off after an accident in December 1977.[47]
Little Nellie was flown, in the film, by its builder, Wing Commander Ken Wallis. Following the filming, Ken Wallis toured airshows with the G-ARZB. Trailered behind his Rolls-Royce he put on an entertaining stunt show, usually involving the pursuit and shooting up of a scrap car containing his assistants, posing as villains. 'Little Nellie' was totally destroyed, at just such an airshow, in Newtownards, N. Ireland on June 7, 1986. Ken Wallis walked away unhurt. Now owned by the Shuttleworth Collection.[49]
Two helicopters were used in the film, both of which were marked OS-7241. (OS is a fictional registration prefix.) The helicopter that flies in and out of the volcano was serial number 445 (G-ASXE). It was later owned by the Västerås Flygmuseum.[52] The helicopter that lands on the office building was serial number 449 (G-ATFH). This aircraft was destroyed in a crash in 1977.[53]
After arriving at Lauterbrunnen railway station, Bond takes this helicopter to Piz Gloria. The helicopter used in the film was serial number 8013 (HB-XCF). As with the 204s used in the film, it belonged to Heliswiss. In 1977 it suffered a forced landing and was damaged beyond repair.[54]
Draco and his men use three helicopters in their raid on Piz Gloria. The aircraft were serials 3002 (HB-XCG), 3209 (HB-XCQ), and 3211 (LN-ORZ). All belonged to Heliswiss. 3209 crashed in 1978 at Val Medel and was written off.[55] On 7 September 2001, 3211 (as SE-HVM) slipped off a pier and sunk, killing one person.[56] The final helicopter, 3002, was for sale as a parts machine.[57]
Bond and Tiffany Case (unknowingly being pursued by Wint and Kidd) fly from Amsterdam to Los Angeles with Peter Franks's corpse in the cargo hold being used to smuggle the diamonds.
Used by Stromberg's personal pilot Naomi to pursue Bond's Lotus equipped with machine guns on the undercarriage. Bond blows it up using a missile launched from his Lotus.
The Chaplain said sent by Universal Exports, but owned by Blofeld, as he states when remotely takes over the helicopter, "do not worry about the pilot he was one of my less useful people" Crashed in IFR weather and destroyed in England while flying too low.
Bede BD5J kitbuilt mini-jet. Originally owned and flown by the Budweiser beer company, later crashed following an engine fire. The pilot, Bob Bishop, bailed out and survived unhurt. The folding wing model seen exiting the horse-box was a mock-up.
Villan Khan, and his goon Gobinda, flee with captive Octopussy in Beech 18; Bond gallops to rescue on a horse, leaping to roof of the plane, which he rides aloft, through stunts. Goon comes out to battle him in flight. Bond wins, rescues Octopussy in the final scene.
Stolen by Pam Bouvier, this plane was used by her to fly to Sanchez's Olympiatec Meditation Institute and later to fly Bond to one of the tankers during the climactic truck chase.
Equipped with a nuclear torpedo. Bond pilots the Albatros in order to fly the torpedo out of the terrorist base so that it won't be detonated by the on-route cruise missile which was launched by the Royal Navy. Bond utilizes the Albatros's weapons systems in order to facilitate his escape. Bond successfully takes off but he is followed into the air by another pilot (also in an Albatros) who is in pursuit of Bond and a Dog fight ensues which Bond wins.
Custom Eurocopter AS355, equipped with giant saws that dangle from beneath the landing gear. Originally utilized by King Industries to clear interfering forest brush, a pair are later sent to eliminate Bond.
Switchblades – PHASST (Programmable High Altitude Single Soldier Transport)[59]
US Military
The Switchblade is a military glider used for covert troop deployment. Bond and Jinx use them to infiltrate a North Korean air base so they can get on board Graves's An-124.
Shown parked in a hangar in South Korea. One Chinook deploys Bond and Jinx on switchblades for their mission to infiltrate a North Korean airbase so they can get on Graves's plane.
This aircraft is used to transport Gustav Graves's equipment and himself out of Iceland. The plane also serves as Graves's command center during the activation of Icarus. The plane is later damaged and destroyed due to it passing the Icarus beam and also Graves being killed by one of the plane's engines along with Icarus itself.
A "prototype" plane featured in Casino Royale, actually a Boeing 747-200 registration G-BDXJ originally used by British Airways. It was refitted with two mockup engines on each inner pylon and external fuel tanks on the outer pylons, somewhat anachronistically resembling a B-52 Stratofortress. This aircraft survives, permanently grounded and repainted plain white, at Dunsfold Aerodrome, England, where all the airfield action was filmed.[60]
Actually, two separate Dakotas were used in the filming. This short sequence demanded the use of two locations, so far apart that it was considered expedient to use two aircraft. Both were stripped back to bare aluminium and made to look identical, for continuity purposes.
Used by Nomi for their mission in Cuba. Bond later borrows it to escape Cuba after capturing Valdo Obruchev. Later stolen by Logan Ash after betraying both Bond and Felix Leiter, with the latter being killed.
Used to transport Bond and Nomi to Safin's base so they can rescue Madeleine and Mathilde and foil Lyustifer Safin's plot.
Unnamed folding glider
MI6
Used and piloted by Nomi to infiltrate Safin's base. The glider can even transform itself into a submersible, with the wings folding in as it dives underwater.
Shown intercepting Q's C-17 Globemaster in an attempt to force the plane to leave airspace to avoid an international incident despite Q letting Bond open the silos for a missile strike by the Royal Navy.
With a crew of British sailors on this naval patrol boat, Felix Leiter finds Bond and Honey adrift at sea in their escape boat and offers to rescue them – but Bond prefers to be left alone with Honey.
A cabin cruiser used as a patrol boat by Dr. No's security force to protect their employer's private island of Crab Key. This boat appears offshore and strafes the beach (where Bond, Honey Ryder and Quarrel are hiding) with machine gunfire.
Cabin Cruiser Water Taxi
Dr. No or Water Taxi Captain
Operated by a fearful Jamaican Captain, this rather unkempt boat provides water taxi service between Kingston, Jamaica, and Crab Key. The main rule for the operation of this boat is that it never makes the trip in daylight – but emergency conditions prompt the persistent passenger, Professor Dent, to ignore this rule at his own peril. It is seen both as a full-sized prop and as a scale model on a miniature set.
Moored to the docks at Dr. No's bauxite mine, this little runabout is commandeered by Bond and used to escape Crab Key with Honey. Seen both as a full-sized prop and as a scale model on a miniature set, it is featured in the final shot of the movie.
Two such simple sailboats (one belonging to Honey and one belonging to Quarrel) are featured: one to covertly transport Bond and Quarrel onto Crab Key by night and the other to do the same for Honey. Her beached boat is destroyed by machine-gun fire, while Quarrel's (which is normally used for fishing trips) features in several earlier scenes, as well.
Tugboat
Dr. No
This industrial tug escorts the water taxi up to the bauxite mine docks on Crab Key. It is not an actual tug, but is instead represented by a scale model on a miniature set.
Passenger Liner SS Evangeline
Volusia Steamship Co.
A background vessel, prominently visible at Kingston Harbor when Bond meets with Quarrel. Though no name is given in the movie, the actual ship's name was Evangeline, which was owned by the Volusia Steamship Co. With her name changed to Yarmouth Castle, this ship was lost at sea, along with 90 souls, in a fire 3 years later. Though such background vessels (not used by any character in the movie) would not normally make a list such as this, this one qualifies for its importance to maritime history. New laws of safety at sea were introduced after her loss.
Blofeld (#1) holds a planning meeting with Rosa Klebb (#3) and Kronsteen (#5) aboard this vessel, anchored in Venice Harbor. For the failure of his plan, Kronsteen is later executed at another meeting aboard this same vessel. Originally built by Blohm & Voss in 1955, under the name Wappen Von Hamburg, she was owned and renamed Delos by the Greek Nomikos Line at the time of filming. She was later named MV Aurora under a new owner.
Three Fairey Huntresses appear in the film, one of which is commandeered by Bond and used as an escape boat for himself and Tatiana Romanova off the Dalmatian Coast. The two SPECTRE Huntresses seen burning in the film were mock-ups. Bond's boat was either hull 61, named Gay Dolphin, or hull 62, Rumble II. The other SPECTRE boat was a long-cabin variant, hull 48, named Liberty.
Fairey Huntsman 28 Powerboat
SPECTRE
Two Fairey Huntsmans were used, one of which was the camera boat. A mock-up was used in the fire scene. The boat seen in the film is hull 34, now named Here and Now. This boat suffered a fire in 2015.[62] The identity of the camera boat is unknown.
Motor Dinghy
Ernst Stavro Blofeld or SPECTRE
Presumably deployed from Blofeld's yacht, this small craft brings Kronsteen to the meeting aboard the larger luxury vessel.
Water Taxi
Water Taxi Driver or Service
A small antique motor vessel that carries Bond and Tatiana on a romantic trip along the canals of Venice, Italy in the final scene of the movie.
Venetian Gondolas
Gondolier or Gondolier Service
Though never used by any character in the movie, several of these crafts are seen plying the canals as incidental vessels to establish the location of Venice, Italy, both at the beginning of the story, proper (following the opening action and main title sequences) and at the end.
Kerim transports Bond through the ancient underground aqueducts of Istanbul in a small punted dinghy (kept beneath the British Intelligence station), to a chamber beneath the Soviet embassy, where they can observe an enemy meeting room by periscope.
Punt
Bond, Sylvia Trench or rental
Bond and Sylvia relax and prepare to enjoy a picnic lunch in a grounded punting boat alongside a river in a park somewhere in the London area, just before he is called away on his mission by headquarters. Another couple also passes by on the river in a similar punt.
Goldfinger (1964)
This is the rare Bond movie with no prominent watercraft used or owned by any significant character – though there are a few incidental boats (being small rowboats or sailboats) seen at the docks where Bond swims ashore to sabotage a Latin American oil storage facility in the pre-credit action sequence and many incidental boats (of various recreational types) seen in the background setting of Miami Beach.
With an Italian name that means "Flying Saucer" in English, Disco Volante is a modern, low slung, luxury yacht with a crew of several dozen and many secret features. Having underwater security cameras and an internal mini-sub/bomb storage bay with underwater hull doors, it can separate into two sections. Seen both as a full-sized prop and as a scale model, this vessel plays a key part in Largo's entire plot and escape attempt. The scale model version is destroyed in an explosive crash into a coral islet.
Two ships were used in the film as well as a scale model. In scenes where Disco Volante was at anchor, the yacht Natoya was used in filming. Natoya was one of six "Cruisemaster" yachts built in 1947-48 by Defoe Shipbuilding Company. Her original owner was Harold DuCharme of Grosse Pointe. Later, she carried the names Jacqueline B and Our House III. On 29 January 1992. she was scuttled off the coast of Fort Lauderdale and named the Wendy Rossheim Memorial Reef.[63] The second ship was a PT-20 hydrofoil built by Rodriquez Cantieri Navali and originally named Flying Fish. Upon acquisition, she was modified by 3M Shipyard in Miami and given a 50-foot, detachable catamaran cocoon. The hydrofoil and cocoon were sold separately after filming, and their ultimate fates are unknown.[64]
Though no name for this ship is given in the movie, the hull number (107) identifies her as HMS Rothesay. While deployed to Bahamian waters, this British warship (crewed by actual RN personnel) participated in the movie filming for 3 days, appearing as one of the 5 military vessels in pursuit of Disco Volante during the climactic naval chase. In this capacity, the ship even fires upon the enemy yacht with her main artillery gun (presumably loaded with blanks). The film's stars, Sean Connery and Claudine Auger were given a tour of the Royal Navy vessel at the time.
Cape Class Patrol Boats USCGC Cape Knox (CG95312) and USCGC Cape Horn (CG95322)
This identical pair of actual US Coast Guard patrol boats (crewed by actual Coast Guard personnel) participated in the movie filming as 2 of the 5 military vessels in pursuit of Disco Volante during the climactic naval chase. Their names are visible on their sterns.
Mark V 40' UTB Utility Boat (CG40590)
US Coast Guard
This actual US Coast Guard utility boat (crewed by actual Coast Guard personnel) participated in the movie filming as 1 of the 5 military vessels in pursuit of Disco Volante during the climactic naval chase. Generally known as a "Forty" or "Forty Boat" (due to its length in feet), this type of UTB was quite common in USCG service at the time. It can be identified by its hull number.
Mark I 40' UTB Utility Boat (CG40410)
US Coast Guard
This authentic US Coast Guard utility boat is crewed by actual Coast Guard personnel and participated in the movie filming as 1 of the 5 military vessels in pursuit of Disco Volante during the climactic naval chase. Generally known as a "Forty" or "Forty Boat" (due to its length in feet), this type of UTB was quite common in USCG service at the time. This particular boat, however (with a prone sailor firing a .30 cal machine gun from its bow), looks to have been significantly modified with the removal of its cabin and other changes in its appearance – but the hull number clearly identifies it as part of the Mark I "Forty Boat" series.
Piloted by the Captain of Disco Volante and crewed by some of the yacht's sailors, this large powerboat picks Domino, Largo, and his entourage up at the Café Martinique Casino, when they leave. It is probably kept at Largo's Palmyra estate.
22' Chris-Craft Sea Skiff Runabout
Water Taxi Service or Café Martinique
Bond arrives at the Café Martinique Casino in this classic runabout, which seems to be operated as a public water taxi or guest service boat by the Casino. Another similar water taxi is seen leaving with a load of tourists just as Bond arrives at the dock.
As one of the first jet boats to be marketed, this unique runabout either belongs to Domino or has been provided for her use by Largo. It is seen when Bond first meets Domino while snorkel diving off the coast of Nassau and is used by her to take him back to shore. It is also seen anchored nearby when the two have an underwater tryst at Love Beach and is used to transfer Domino onto Disco Volante with a Geiger counter/camera for the final act. She will also lend it to Bond, as it appears in the background when he swims ashore at the Palmyra breakwater, evidently being the vessel that brought him there.
A small, square bowed, outboard runabout that is supplied for Bond's use, possibly by Pinder (the British Intelligence Station Chief in the Bahamas) or Paula Caplain (a field assistant, who also lives there). It is used by Bond and Paula when they first meet Domino Derval while snorkel diving off the Nassau coast, whereupon Bond transfers from the Evinrude with Paula to Domino's boat. It is seen again when Bond and Felix Leiter reconnoiter the anchored Disco Volante by day. Due to a continuity error, this description applies only to the wide exterior shots – while the studio close-ups in front of a rear projection screen show Bond and Leiter in a slightly different, unidentifiable prop boat.
Evinrude Playmate Runabout
Emilio Largo or SPECTRE
A tiny runabout, apparently carried by Disco Volante as a dinghy. It is used by 3 of Largo's men in an attempt to run Bond down while he conducts an underwater reconnaissance of the yacht by night. Hitting something, they believe they have killed him, but have actually only clipped his detached scuba tank with the boat's propeller.
Bomb Sled Submersible
Emilio Largo or SPECTRE
A bright orange, spade-shaped, twin prop submersible with an open 2-man cockpit and a pair of side racks for the underwater carriage of two atomic bombs, designed and built specifically for the movie. Stowed in a hangar bay aboard Disco Volante and used by Largo's scuba crew every time the bombs must be transported to or from the yacht, it also features handholds for the external carriage of several more divers (in addition to the 2-man crew), 6 forward-firing spear guns and 2 headlights. As such, it also serves as a kind of underwater tank in battle, until captured by US Navy divers allied with Bond. This craft is also used by Largo and Bond (when disguised as a SPECTRE diver). It is incorrectly referred to by Largo as a "submarine", though it is clearly a "submersible". The difference is that the former is a sealed underwater vessel that stays dry with an oxygenated atmosphere inside, while the latter is an underwater vessel that is open to the sea or fills with water, requiring any crew members to wear scuba gear.
Scuba Sleds
Emilio Largo or SPECTRE
Several small, wedge-shaped, 1-man, motorized aqua-sleds with handlebar controls, for the external carriage of scuba divers, designed and built specifically for the movie. Stowed in a hangar bay aboard Disco Volante and frequently used by Largo's scuba crew during underwater operations, they also feature twin, forward-firing spear guns and headlights for combat. During the underwater battle scene, one of this craft is used by Largo and another two (commandeered from the enemy on separate occasions) are used by Bond. Most seem to be abandoned at sea with the defeat of SPECTRE.
Motorized Scuba Rig
Issued to Bond by British Intelligence
A specialized, triple-tanked scuba rig, designed and built specifically for the movie, with a small electric motor for self-propulsion. Featuring a forward-firing mini-torpedo launcher and a headlight, it leaves a trail of yellow dye in the water, which is supposed to be some kind of underwater concealment device (similar to a smokescreen) to be deployed against pursuers, but is instead deployed all the time by the Director, just for the look of it. Issued to 007 by Q in Pinder's British Intelligence station and used by Bond during the climactic underwater battle, it is destroyed when he switches to a miniature re-breather and abandons the larger rig in a shipwreck to lure enemy divers close so that he can drop an underwater grenade on them.
Rubber Boat
Pinder or British Intelligence
A paddle-powered, commando-style assault raft (known in military parlance as a "rubber boat"), used by Leiter and Pinder to deploy Bond into the sea by night for his underwater reconnaissance of Disco Volante. Oddly enough, they do not wait around to pick him up and he must make his own way back by hitchhiking.
A circular, self-inflating life raft, equipped with the Fulton Surface-To-Air Recovery System (STARS) and dropped to Bond and Domino at sea from a modified B-17 rescue plane. Used by the US Navy, US Air Force, and C.I.A. in the early '60s, this rescue system involved a dirigible-shaped, bottle-inflated, helium balloon that would rise into the air trailing a 500-foot nylon cable with a harness at the bottom end for a rescue subject. The cable would then be caught in a special fork on the nose of the rescue plane and the rescue subject would be whisked into the air in the harness to trail beneath and behind the aircraft, where a crew in the belly of the plane would snatch the cable with hooks, attach it to a winch, and reel the subject into the bomb bay. With Domino clinging tightly to him, Bond uses this system to be plucked from the sea in the final scene of the movie.
A giant, two-masted, gaffe rigged catamaran, incidentally anchored near Disco Volante off Nassau. Her name clearly appears on her bow. First seen by Bond and Leiter by day, it is used by them and Pinder that night for concealment as the insertion point for Bond's underwater reconnaissance of the enemy yacht and he is chased back under it by SPECTRE boatmen afterwards, to again use it for concealment in his escape. Within the movie, no owner or reason for this vessel to be present (other than coincidence) is given. Owned by Tropic Cruises Ltd, and captained by its designer Syd Hartshorne in real life, the Tropic Rover was known for charter tours around Nassau, had been featured in "Life" magazine, and was the largest catamaran in the world at that time. Two years later in 1967, she ran aground and sank in Nassau Harbor, with no loss of life.
A large two-masted topsail schooner is seen prominently in the background when Bond meets Domino off the Nassau coast. It is plying back and forth all through the filming day, suggesting that its presence must have been arranged with the real owner by the filmmakers (rather than by incidental coincidence. "Thunderball" features the most marine vehicles and watercraft of any James Bond film.
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Modernized A Class Overseas Patrol Submarine
Royal Navy
This cold war submarine, operated by RN personnel, appears to be on loan from the Royal Navy to British Intelligence for use by M as a mobile headquarters. Outfitted with an office for the intelligence chief and a reception room for Moneypenny, she bears the fictional pennant number M-1 (probably in reference to the boat's temporary assignment to M). She appears at the beginning of the movie (where Bond is secretly taken on board after his falsified funeral at sea, receives his mission briefing, and is deployed ashore to Japan through a torpedo tube), and again at the end (where he and Kissy Suzuki are scooped up in their rescue raft by the surfacing sub). Though no name is given for this vessel in the movie, she is the actual HMS Aneas – a streamline modified version of the WWII era A Class diesel/electric boats that served as the backbone of Britain's patrol submarine force in the early 1960s.
Type 12 Whitby Class Frigate
Royal Navy
Though given no name in the movie, her pennant number (F65) indicates that this is the actual HMS Tenby (crewed by actual RN personnel). She is the warship on which Bond's false funeral and burial at sea are held in Hong Kong Harbor.
Freighter Ship MV Ning Po
Osato Chemicals, SPECTRE, China, or some complicit shipping company
A commercial freighter ship used by Osato Chemicals for the secret transport of rocket fuel to Blofeld's volcano base. First seen in an enemy photograph stolen from Mr. Osato's safe, the motor vessel and its cargo are investigated by Bond and Aki at the Kobe Docks in Japan, whereupon Bond is captured and taken aboard to the quarters of Helga Brandt. It is seen again in a reconnaissance photo, showing (by its waterline) that the cargo has been offloaded. Ownership of this vessel is unclear, though it seems to be controlled by Mr. Osato of Osato Chemicals on behalf of SPECTRE, and is probably owned by one of them. The name Ning Po, however, suggests that it may be a state-owned Chinese ship since SPECTRE is working for some unidentified Asian country (judging by the two Asian representatives who meet with Blofeld) that wants to instigate a war between the US and the USSR – which would presumably be Red China (or, perhaps, North Korea). The owner may also be some unidentified shipping company that is complicit in the SPECTRE plan, as a preliminary investigation by Tiger Tanaka reveals that the ship has a Panamanian registry (which is common for commercial ships from anywhere, as Panama has lenient maritime regulations).
Two ships were used in the film. The ship seen in the photograph is unidentified. The ship Bond visits at the dock is the M.V. Yamaguchi Maru. This vessel was built in 1965 by Mitsubishi. In 1980 she was renamed Brazilian Express, and in 1984 was broken up in China.
Public Shuttle Boat
Local public utility or shuttle service company
A quaint, old-fashioned, Japanese shuttle boat of wood and bamboo construction with a chugging engine sound. Disguised as locals among many other passengers, Bond, Kissy Suzuki and Tiger Tinaka travel to the Ama fishing village aboard this vessel.
Ama Boats
Kissy Suzuki and other villagers
Small, simple, stern-rowed, wooden boats (similar to sampans), used for ama-style pearl diving. Disguised as a husband and wife team in their own such boat, Bond and Kissy Suzuki (with he rowing and she diving) break away from the rest of the pearling fleet in order to investigate a nearby cave. The boat is abandoned there when poison gas is detected, prompting the two occupants to dive overboard.
Life Rafts
SIS or Japanese Defense Forces
Many bright orange inflatable life rafts are air-dropped to Tanaka's ninja force by military transport plane as they make their swimming escape from Blofeld's volcano base. Among this force, Bond and Kissy Suzuki get into their own raft, which drifts apart from the others. Just as the couple starts to get romantic, however, their raft is scooped up on the deck of M's submarine, which surfaces directly beneath them in the final scene of the movie.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Rowboat
Unknown – Presumably a local fisherman
Though not used for transport by any character, a small wooden rowboat is seen propped upside-down (in the local dry storage method) on a Portuguese beach in the pre-title action sequence. During a fight against several attackers, Bond throws one of his opponents beneath this boat and kicks out the prop stake to trap the man under its hull.
Hovercraft are difficult vehicles to classify as they fly at an altitude of a few inches on a cushion of air over flat land or water – qualifying them as water, land, or air craft, simultaneously. The one in this movie is shown traveling down a concrete land ramp and across the English Channel. It is the BHC (British Hovercraft Corporation), formerly Saro (Saunders-Roe) SR.N4 (Saunders Roe.Nautical 4), Princess Margaret which, together with her sister craft, Princess Anne, offered ferry service from Dover, England to Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais, France, operated by Seaspeed from 1968 to 1981 (and thence by Hoverspeed until 2000). Her name is visible on her bow, as is the Seaspeed logo. Driving a commandeered car, Bond takes this ferry from Britain to mainland Europe at the beginning of his mission to Amsterdam. In real life, the Princess Margaret could accommodate 254 passengers and 30 cars, until modified in 1972 to carry more. The Mountbatten Class is the largest hovercraft of its time and still holds the record for the fastest car ferrying trip across the English Channel. Being vulnerable to high winds, she was blown aground in a 1981 accident with the loss of 4 passengers. She was later on display at the Hovercraft Museum in Hampshire, England.
Ballistic Missile Submarine
Soviet Navy
A submerged Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that is destroyed while underway by Blofeld's laser satellite. This is not a full-sized vessel, but is instead a scale model on an aquarium set. Though marked with a red star and clearly intended to represent a Soviet submarine, the model more closely resembles a US Benjamin Franklin Class.
Canberra Class Ocean Liner
Unknown Shipping Company, possibly belonging to Willard Whyte
A steam-powered, turbo-electric ocean liner on which Bond and Tiffany Case travel back to England from the United States and aboard which Mr. Wint and Mr. Kid make their final attack on Bond. Though the point of departure for this voyage is not specified in the film, it would presumably be New York, as in the book. No owner is mentioned, but the billionaire/industrialist Willard Whyte claims that he can order the captain around, which suggests that he might be the owner of the vessel or the shipping line. Though no name is given in the movie, this is the actual SS Canberra, a British ocean liner, owned by P&O Shipping Lines which ran from England to Australia between 1961 and 1974, at which time she was converted into a cruise ship until scrapped in 1997. She was also pressed into service as a troop transport for the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina.
Canal Excursion Boat Prins Willem Alexander
Reederij P. Kooij Canal Tours
A Dutch-style, motorized canal excursion boat with a glass top. To establish the Amsterdam location, this boat is shown on a sight-seeing cruise of the Amstel River. Its female tour guide is heard to express shock as she passes a crime scene where the body of Mrs. Whistler is being recovered from the water. The name of this real vessel can be seen on the bow and its company of ownership is printed on the windshield.
Dutch Canal Boat Jan Van der Hiede
Unknown
A Dutch-style canal boat that has become part of a crime scene along the Amstel River in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Though apparently an ordinary civilian vessel (rather than a police boat), it has been either commandeered or simply boarded by the Amsterdam police and used as a platform to recover Mrs. Whistler's body from the water. Its name is visible on the hull.
Bathosub
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
A fictitious, wedge-shaped, one-man mini-sub, designed specifically for the movie. Kept on Blofeld's offshore oil rig/satellite control base, it is intended for the villain's personal use as an emergency escape vehicle – though when he tries to use it as such in the climactic battle scene, Bond gains control of the bathosub's launching crane and uses the mini-sub as a wrecking ball with Blofeld inside. Here, the long-standing Bond nemesis is presumably killed in this vessel, but his death is left somewhat ambiguous. Probably a non-working prop (as it never gets free from its crane hook and is, thus, never shown to operate in the water as a submarine), the bathosub seems to be misnamed, as the word does not apply to any real world type of vehicle. The closest actual word would be "bathyscaph", which is an entirely different type of underwater vehicle, intended only to go up or down to great depths, with limited lateral movement.
Wave Walker
British Intelligence, CIA or Willard Whyte
A spherical (slightly polygonal) watertight flotation device in which a single person can stand or walk on the surface of the water. The walking action turns the sphere (much like a hamster wheel), imparting directional motion to it across the water. Normally a leisure device, the one in the movie is specially equipped with a triple parachute (in the fashion of a space capsule). Within it, Bond is air dropped into the Baja Sea near Blofeld's offshore oil rig /satellite control base, whereupon he water-walks to the platform. It is apparently issued to Bond for this purpose by British Intelligence or the CIA (with whom he is working closely), or perhaps by the billionaire aerospace industrialist, Willard White, who owns all manner of high-tech equipment (and with whom Bond is also working closely).
An old, rusty WWII era LST (Landing Ship, Tank) that has been converted to industrial purposes. It is moored along a river in the Irish Bayou of Louisiana during the boat chase sequence. By ramming attack with his own commandeered boat, Bond deflects Adam's out-of-control speedboat into the open bow ramp of the LST, causing the enemy boat to crash and explode inside the assault ship (presumably killing Adam in the process).
Dredge Barge
Unknown
An old, rusty dredging barge, loaded with painting equipment. It is moored alongside an LST assault ship on a river in the Irish Bayou of Louisiana during the boat chase sequence. In his own commandeered boat, Bond hides behind this barge, from which he grabs a bucket of paint thinner to throw into Adam's eyes in order to blind the pursuing henchman and send his speedboat out of control.
A rather unkempt cabin cruiser operated by Bond's field assistant, Quarrel Jr. in keeping with his cover identity as a deep-sea fishing guide. It is first seen at a tourist trap dock on the fictional island of San Monique, where Bond and Rosie Carver first meet Quarrel Jr. and pretend to hire him and his boat for a charter fishing trip, whereupon it takes them up the coast to reconnoiter Solitaire's cliff-top mansion and drops the couple off at another dock, nearby. The same boat later tows Bond into the air on a hang glider to infiltrate the mansion grounds. Quarrel Jr. picks Bond and Solitaire up with this boat as they arrive by stolen double-deck bus (under police pursuit) to escape San Monique from the same dock by which they arrived. It is again seen at the climax of the story as the scuba diving platform from which Felix Leiter drops Bond and Quarrel Jr. off on their infiltration of Kananga's secret lair and for the recovery of Quarrel Jr, afterward. Several similar cabin cruisers (in much better maintenance condition) are also seen at the tourist trap dock, where other fishing guides (who seem far more enterprising than Quarrel Jr.) unsuccessfully bid for Bond's charter business.
A small outboard speedboat, stolen by Bond from Dr. Kananga's crocodile farm/drug lab and piloted by him at the beginning of the boat chase through the Irish Bayou in Louisiana. It is this boat (modified for ramp stability with two hull rails on the underside and the pilot's seat moved to the center-line) that makes the record-breaking 120-foot jump over Sheriff Pepper's police car on a causeway road. When its engine takes a bullet hit, Bond must abandon the GT-150 for another boat.
Glastron CV-19 Jet Speedboat
Deke Rodgers
A small hydro-jet powered speedboat. Moored at Deke Rodger's house along the Irish Bayou, Bond transfers to this boat, which he steals after his original GT-150 is disabled by gunfire, then completes the remainder of the boat chase in it. The CV-19 survives the chase and is presumably returned to Rodgers after Bond relinquishes it at a Louisiana marina, where Felix Leiter is waiting with a police entourage.
Glastron-Carlson CV-21 Jet Speedboat
Billy-Bob
A souped-up hydro-jet powered speedboat, stolen from a park ranger, Billy-Bob from a Louisiana Parks and Wildlife station by Kananga henchman Adam, who uses it to pursue Bond in the boat chase sequence. Among the many craft involved in the chase, it is the last one destroyed, when Bond blinds Adam with paint thinner, sending it out of control. By ramming attack with his own commandeered boat, Bond deflects Adam's out-of-control speedboat into the open bow ramp of an LST, causing the enemy boat to crash and explode inside the assault ship (presumably killing Adam in the process).
Glastron V-162 Futura Speedboat
Kananga henchman
A small outboard speedboat, which is one of many that pursue Bond in the boat chase through the Irish Bayou of Louisiana. While trying to follow Bond's stolen boat through a record-breaking jump over a causeway road, this boat is destroyed when it falls short and spears through Sheriff J.W. Pepper's car.
Glastron V-184 Crestflite Jet Speedboat
Kananga henchmen
A small hydro-jet powered speedboat, which is one of many that pursue Bond in the boat chase through the Irish Bayou of Louisiana. While trying to follow Bond's boat across a lawn between bends of a river, this boat plows overland through an outdoor wedding ceremony. It crashes through the wedding cake table, before ending up stuck in a cabana tent.
Glastron V-145 Fireflite Speedboat
Dr. Kananga henchmen
A small outboard speedboat, which is one of the many that pursue Bond in the boat chase through the Irish Bayou of Louisiana. While trying to follow Bond's boat across a lawn between bends of a river, this boat ends up in the swimming pool of Deke Rodger's elegant estate.
Glastron V-156 Sportster Speedboat
Kananga Henchmen
Two of these small outboard speedboats pursue Bond in the boat chase through the Irish Bayou of Louisiana. One is disabled after crashing into a tree, the other is simply outrun by Bond (along with Kananga henchman, Adam, who remains in the chase).
Johnboat
Unknown (presumably policemen)
Two of these small crafts play an active part in the police blockade at Miller's Bridge along the Irish Bayou of Louisiana, during the boat chase sequence. One is plowed through by Bond in his commandeered speedboat and the other is plowed through by Adam in his stolen speedboat. Many other small boats are present at the blockade as incidental craft, but no others are directly involved in the action.
A wrecked and partially sunken ocean liner in Hong Kong Harbor, which is being used as a secret base (with a refurbished interior) by British Intelligence. As identified in the film dialogue, this is the actual RMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest passenger ship in the world at that time. Originally owned by Cunard Shipping Lines, she served as a British troopship in WWII and then ran a commercial trans-Atlantic route between Southampton, UK and New York City, United States from 1946 to 1969. It was used for cruises from New York to the Caribbean, before being sold to the Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Line for conversion to a university cruise ship that was to be called Seawise University. While being refitted for that purpose in 1972, however, the ship caught fire, partially capsized, and sank in Hong Kong Harbor, where she appears in the film. Eventually, she was declared a shipping hazard and partially scrapped. What remains still lies buried on the harbor floor.
A traditional, 3 masted, Chinese junk, modified with motorized propulsion and a modern luxury interior, to serve as Francisco Scaramanga's personal yacht. It is seen off the coast of Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Scaramanga's private island, where it is used for transport, as a reconnaissance platform to observe Bond's hotel, a safe storage vault for the solex agitator, and for bedroom trysts between the villain and his mistress. In the end, it is commandeered by Bond and Mary Goodnight for their escape from Scaramanga's island, where it is the scene of a final fight between Bond and Nick Nack. Though given no name in the movie, this vessel is the actual June Hong Chain Lee, a Malaysian Junk, built in 1962 and originally used as a merchant cargo vessel, but now owned by The Junk Worldwide Dive and Sail of Phuket, Thailand, for charter scuba diving excursions. It is the only operational junk of its vintage type left in the world.
Hydrofoil Ferry Flying Sandpiper
Hong Kong Macao Hydrofoil Co.
A medium-sized hydrofoil ferry configured for passenger service. Built by Rodriquez Cantieri Navali and operated by Hong Kong Macao Hydrofoil Co. since 1972 for ferry service between those two islands. Bond follows Andrea Anders from Macao to Hong Kong aboard this ferry. Its name is clearly visible along the side of the superstructure.
Hong Kong Police Boat No. 20
Hong Kong Marine Police
A smallish (maybe 23 foot) cabin cruiser-type police patrol boat with flashing blue lights and the designation "No. 20" clearly visible on its stern. Seeming to be an enemy, Lieutenant Hip transports Bond (while under false arrest) across Hong Kong Harbor, when Bond "escapes" by jumping off onto the sunken hulk of RMS Queen Elizabeth. As it turns out, no escape was necessary as Hip turns out to be an ally who was transporting Bond to the ocean liner hulk all along.
Klong Tour Boat
Unknown Tour Company
Several identical teakwood, canopied, open tour boats with a 20 to 30 passenger seating capacity (presumably all belonging to the same tour company) can be seen operating along the klongs of the floating market in Bangkok, Thailand. Though mostly incidental, three of these vessels play a direct role in the boat chase action, with one pulling out of a slip to cut off the chase boat, one containing a little street urchin boy who jumps off and swims to Bond's boat and one containing Sheriff J.W. Pepper and his wife May Bell as the passing chase boats splash water on them.
Longtail Longboat
Hai Fat, Hai Fat's Kung-Fu School or one of the kung-fu students
A long, canoe-like, six-man, longtail motorboat (being a type of Thai motorboat powered by an outboard car engine on a stern tiller mount, turning a screw at the end of a long boom axle). Moored on a Klong in front of Hai Fat's Kung Fu School, six kung-fu students jump into this boat and give chase after Bond, upon his escape from the school in another longtail. A ramming attack from Bond's boat cuts it in half and dumps the students into the drink.
Longtail Skiff
Unknown
A short, one-man, longtail motorboat (being a type of Thai motorboat powered by an outboard car engine on a stern tiller mount, turning a screw at the end of a long boom axle). Moored on a Klong in front of Hai Fat's Kung Fu School, Bond steals this boat to escape from the school, whereupon he is taken under pursuit by six kung-fu students in another longtail. After foiling his pursuers by ramming their boat and cutting it in half, Bond makes good his leisurely escape and presumably abandons his stolen craft, intact, when finished with it. Due to the torque of their big car engines, these boats are easy to turn in one direction, but hard to turn in the opposite direction (when they often over-steer). Because of this issue, Roger Moore managed to capsize his longtail and dump himself into the filthy Klong water during filming.
Rowboat
Unidentified Rower
A small, simple, open, wood boat, propelled by oars. This little craft, rowed by an unidentified character, drops the mob assassin, Rodney, off at Scaramanga's island in the pre-title action sequence.
Sampan
Unidentified Thai Woman
A simple, wedge-shaped, flat bottomed, wood boat, common to Southeast Asia and powered by a paddle or punting pole. At the end of the boat chase scene, Sheriff J. W. Pepper looks on from a dock as a tourist. Just as he recognizes Bond, he is knocked by a baby elephant into the Klong between two of these sampan boats – one of which is occupied by a Thai woman, who giggles at the Sheriff's undignified predicament. Several similar craft are seen as incidental props all along the Klongs.
Casino de Macau Floating Casino
Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau
Though more of a building built on a stationary barge than a true watercraft, the floating Casino de Macau casino is featured in the background when Bond arrives at Lazar's gun shop in Macau. Later, he enters the presumably same casino while following the trail of a bullet shipment which is passed from Lazar to Andrea at the gaming tables. At the time of filming, the casino was moored along Rua Das Lorchas between Ponte 12 & 14. At some point, its name was changed to Macau Palace Casino, and the building was rebuilt or renovated to a different appearance. This new version has been towed to the inner harbor of Macau, where it has been out of business for some time. Though no owner of this establishment is mentioned in the film, all Macau casinos at that time were owned by a monopoly called Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau.
A modified Lotus Esprit S1 sports car that converts into a mini-submarine. During transformation, the wheels retract and the wheel wells are covered over by fairings, fins sprout from the fairings and the dashboard instruments change to a nautical instrument panel (all activated by a lever on the floor). It features tubes behind the rear license plate that spray liquid cement on land and squid-like ink in water (activated by a dashboard switch), an anti-aircraft mini-missile launcher in the rear window (activated by a stickshift button with a targeting monitor on the center console), a mini-torpedo launcher in the hood (activated by a steering wheel button), a mine dispenser in the bottom (activated by a dashboard switch) and a periscope in the roof (which displays its image on a viewscreen near the rear-view mirror). Developed by MI-6, this car/sub is issued to Bond by Q at a ferry dock in Sardinia and piloted by him (with Anya Amisova as a passenger) in a road car chase and an underwater mini-sub/scuba battle, after which it is piloted out of the sea before an astonished beach crowd. In real life, there were 6 versions of the Lotus used in filming (most of which were normal cars, one of which was modified for the transformation scene, one of which was watertight to emerge from the sea on a cable-tow, and one of which was a submersible only). There was also a scale model version for use on a miniature aquarium set in conjunction with a scale model of Stromberg's underwater laboratory. The submersible (or wet-sub) was not watertight or pressurized, but filled with water and was operated by two scuba divers – requiring heavily louvered windows to hide the scuba-suited occupants. It featured four fins, two rudders, and four electric motors that could only run forward. Though never mentioned in film dialogue, the submersible version was nicknamed "Wet Nellie" by the film crew (after the "Little Nellie" gyroplane in "You Only Live Twice". After filming and a promotional tour, it was put into storage for ten years, until the entire contents of the storage locker were bought at auction, sight unseen, for $100. In 2013, this buyer sold it at auction for 616,000 pounds to Elon Musk.
An early personal watercraft given to Bond by Q to access Stromberg's fortress.
Specialized Oil Supertanker MT Liparus
Stromberg Shipping Lines
A gigantic oil supertanker (said to be the largest in the western world), which is actually a secret mobile submarine base. It features an advanced underwater tracking system (for tracking submarines), a magnetic field generator (for disabling submarines), clamshell bow doors (for capturing or launching submarines), and an internal submarine bay (capable of accommodating 3 submarines). It also features armories, missile storage facilities, a mission control room, 3 detention brigs, and a monorail transport system. All this is in addition to the normal ship features (such as bridge, crew quarters and engine rooms), which it presumably has, as well. Owned by Karl Stromberg and operated by an armed crew of hundreds, under the command of an unnamed Captain, this ship serves as the operational base for the villain's plot, and is the primary scene of the movie climax. The plot involves capturing nuclear submarines, imprisoning their crews, and using their nuclear missiles to provoke WWIII between the US and USSR, in order to destroy the corrupt surface civilization of Earth, so that a new Utopian civilization can be built under the sea. In the end, it is overtaken in battle by the captive allied submarine crews (freed by Bond) and is eventually sunk with all hands, due to damage sustained in this battle.
Externally, Liparus is not a real ship, but is represented by a scale model – though, at 80 feet in length, it is a very large scale model, powered by an outboard motorboat engine. Its internal spaces are built on the massive 007 sound-stage at Pinewood Studios, and the submarine bay is the largest interior set ever built in the history of motion pictures (surpassing the previous record, which had been held by the volcano base in You Only Live Twice.
Specialized Monorail Car/Motorboat
Stromberg Shipping Lines
A monorail car of the Liparus's internal transportation system that, when launched out of a hatch in the side of the supertanker, discards its car shell exterior and transforms into a motorboat. A Liparus guard pilots Karl Stromberg (with Anya Amisova as a prisoner) from the supertanker at sea to the Atlantis laboratory. It is seen both as a full-sized prop and as a model on a miniature set.
A powerboat that transports James Bond and Anya Amasova from the Hotel Cala di Volpe to the Atlantis base of Karl Stromberg.
Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine HMS Ranger
Royal Navy
A fictional ballistic missile submarine of the nuclear powered Resolution Class. The four real life members of the Resolution Class (Resolution, Repulse, Renown, and Revenge) were part of the UK Polaris Programme, which served as the British Navy's main nuclear deterrent force from 1968 to 1996. They carry 16 UGM-27 Polaris A-3 SLBM missiles and feature 6 Tigerfish torpedo tubes. In the movie, HMS Ranger, captained by Commander Talbot, is seen in the opening action sequence, where she is lost under mysterious circumstances. As such, the rest of the plot revolves around Agent 007's search for this missing submarine (together with Soviet Agent XXX's search for a missing Soviet sub). She appears again as a captive submarine, rechristened Stromberg 2 (though external shots seem to show her as Stromberg 1) aboard the supertanker Liparus, where she is re-crewed with Stromberg sailors and deployed at sea to launch a nuclear missile at Moscow in the film's climax. This is part of a plan intended to provoke WWIII between the United States and The Soviet Union, in order to wipe out all surface civilization, so that a Utopian civilization beneath the sea can be built anew by the super-villain, Karl Stromberg. She is destroyed by a nuclear warhead, when Bond tricks the Captains of Stromberg 1 and Stromberg 2 to target each other with their missile fire. This submarine is represented by a 2/3 scale prop on a full-sized set in some scenes and by a smaller model on a miniature set in other scenes.
Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine Potemkin
Soviet Navy
A fictional ballistic missile submarine of the nuclear-powered Yankee Class, bearing the name of a famous Russian battleship that experienced a mutiny in 1905. The 34 real-life members of the Yankee Class served as the Soviet Navy's main nuclear deterrent force from 1967 to 1995. They carry 16 SLBM missiles and 4 torpedo tubes. In the movie dialogue, Potemkin is described as being lost under mysterious circumstances. As such, the rest of the plot revolves around Soviet Agent XXX's search for this missing submarine (together with 007's search for a missing British sub). It appears again as a captive submarine, rechristened Stromberg 1 (though external shots seem to show it as Stromberg 2) aboard the supertanker Liparus, where it is re-crewed with Stromberg sailors and deployed at sea to launch a nuclear missile at Washington DC in the film's climax. This is part of a plan intended to provoke WWIII between the United States and The Soviet Union, in order to wipe out all surface civilization, so that a Utopian civilization beneath the sea can be built anew by the super-villain, Karl Stromberg. It is destroyed by a nuclear warhead, when Bond tricks the Captains of Stromberg 1 and Stromberg 2 to target each other with their missile fire. This submarine is represented by a 2/3 scale prop on a full-sized set in some scenes and by a smaller model on a miniature set in other scenes.
Porpoise or Oboron Class Attack Submarine
Royal Navy
A conventional diesel/electric attack submarine of the British Royal Navy. Originally classified as patrol submarines and later as attack submarines, these two nearly identical types served concurrently from 1956 to 1990, throughout most of the cold war. At least one Oberon Class boat also served in the Falklands war. They were also used by Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Chile. One of these submarines (with crewmen assembled on her deck) can be conspicuously seen in the background, pacing Bond and the Defense Minister as they walk along the pier at Faslane Naval Base in Scotland. Another similar vessel is visible moored to the pier.
The Royal Navy warship that Mr. Stamper sunk in order to goad China and the United Kingdom into warfare, on behalf of Carver. No survivors from the sinking.
The Royal Navy warship seen in the pre-titles sequence, responsible for destroying a terrorist arms market on the Russian border, on the orders of Rear Admiral Benson.
Weapons systems: At least 2 torpedoes and grenade launcher.
Bond fires 2 torpedoes at an assassin's boat, destroying it.
Part of the Ian Fleming Foundation collection in Florida.
The boat has a single jet engine to assist in propulsion.
Sunseeker Superhawk 34
Bond, in his Q-boat, chases the Sunseeker that is being piloted down the River Thames by assassin Giulietta da Vinci.
Used as an integral part of the villains' scheme to cripple the global oil market. By inserting weapons-grade plutonium into the reactor, the submarine would effectively become a floating nuclear bomb, which would then be detonated in the middle of the Bosphorus.
Die Another Day (2002)
Sunseeker Superhawk 48
Jinx climbed onboard after she escaped Isla Los Organos, diving of a high cliff.
Casino Royale (2006)
Spirit 54
James Bond and Vesper Lynd sail from Montenegro to Venice on a Spirit 54 sailing yacht
Used to take Bond and Tanner to Q's new lab in London
Unidentified speed boat
Stolen by Bond and Madeleine
Bond and Madeleine use this boat to chase down Ernst Stavro Blofeld and prevent him from escaping in his helicopter.
No Time to Die (2021)
Spirit 46
Used as Bond's personal sailboat in Jamaica. Later used once more to go to Cuba to investigate a SPECTRE meeting.
Blue Angel fishing boat
This boat is used by Felix Leiter as a rendezvous point so Bond can enter it and interrogate Vladvo Obruchev for information. The boat is later blown up by Logan Ash when he reveals himself as a double agent working for Safin. The name of the boat is never revealed in the movie.
Used to fire missiles at Safin's base to destroy remaining heracles inside. The missiles also hit Bond when he is forced to sacrifice himself after being infected by nanobots by Safin.
Likely operated by an unknown NASA astronaut (the eventual manning of the mission is not discussed) for a lunar orbit spaceflight. Dr. No's goal is to sabotage the launch, causing the mission's failure and eventually the death of the astronaut, assuming there was one.
Actually, the rocket sequence was the video of a Titan ICBM test, not a Mercury launch.
During its fourth orbit's spacewalk by the astronaut Chris, is captured by SPECTRE's Bird One. Chris is killed and the other astronaut is imprisoned in SPECTRE's Japanese base.
Used by SPECTRE cosmonauts to capture NASA and Soviet capsules after launches in a crater in Japan. It is probably inspired by the Augmented Target Docking Adapter, nicknamed "the angry alligator". Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the Bird One spacecraft.
Also captured by Bird One, is a fictional Soviet spacecraft. Its launch sequence is really the launch of a Project Mercury mission.
Gemini Jupiter ? capsule
NASA/McDonnell Aircraft
Another Gemini capsule, used in a mission during an attempt of capture by the Bird One. After the Bird One (disguised as a Soviet spacecraft) explodes as Bond used the SPECTRE computing devices, the capsule successfully reenters in Earth's atmosphere.
Used after a large diamond smuggling, the satellite is built with diamonds and it can project a powerful laser on nuclear submarines, nuclear missiles silos.
Space Shuttle orbiter-like spacecraft originally built by Drax Industries for the World's space agencies, but used to transport Drax's "perfect" humans to his personal space station. One orbiter is stolen from an SCA-like Boeing 747 while en route to the United Kingdom, destroying the airplane, to replace another one which had problems, leading MI6 to investigate.
Moonraker 5
Drax Industries/Sir Hugo Drax
Drax's own laser-equipped spacecraft. It is stolen by Bond and Goodhead to destroy nerve gas globes.
Drax's space station
Drax Industries/Sir Hugo Drax
Huge stealth spacecraft used by Drax in his plan. It is full of nerve gas globes that should kill "unperfect" humans.
Avowedly a mirror to reflect sunlight, it is actually a huge and powerful sun gun-like satellite which can be programmed to individuate and follow heat sources. Graves plans to use Icarus for a Korean invasion of East Asia.
Fleming does not say what year the car is, although he describes it as "one of the last 4½-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers." James Bond bought the car "almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war." Near the end of the novel, he crashes it in France.
Citroën
Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper Lynd from the casino in this car. Fleming describes it as a "beetle-browed Citroën" and later describes its "front-wheel drive and low chassis." This description likely makes it a Traction Avant model.
007 takes Stratocruiser on his journeys to America.
Buick limousine
United States Government
After his arrival at Idlewild Airport, Halloran picks Bond up in a black Buick limousine.
1933 Bentley 4½ Litre
James Bond
This is Bond's personal car, which he presumably had repaired after the accident in France. Bond drives this from his flat to his Regent's Park office. Unlike in Casino Royale, Fleming lists the car's year explicitly.
After detraining at Jacksonville from the Silver Phantom, Bond and Solitaire take the sister train for the rest of the trip. Unlike the Silver Phantom, which was a name Fleming conceived, the Meteor was a real train. Bond takes this train again in Goldfinger.
Bond takes the car from Felix Leiter after he is injured and drives it down to the docks to get into the wild shootout with the Robber. Bond notes that the car was "fifteen years old, he reflected, yet still one of the most modern-looking cars in the world." Assuming the book takes place in 1952, this would make the car a 1937.
Luxurious black yacht with grey superstructure built in 1947 for a certain millionaire, later acquired by Mr Big who uses it for smuggling gold coins from Jamaica to the USA. 70 foot (21 m) long, powered by twin General Motor Diesels and capable of doing 20 knots. Bond destroys it with the limpet mine killing everyone aboard including Mr Big in the novel's climax.
This is James Bond's same car from Casino Royale, although the year has changed from 1933 to 1930. It is unclear whether this was Fleming's intention or was written in error. After Bond crashes it near the end of the novel, he says that it has "gone to its grave in a Maidstone garage."
Passes Bond during the car chase with Drax. Bond guesses the car is a 1932 or 1933, and says the owner is probably a "hot-rod type from one of the RAF stations round here." Drax pushes the car off the road, killing the driver.
In the A20 car chase, Hugo Drax pulls his Mercedes-Benz 300S alongside this lorry. Krebs climbs onto it and cuts the ties securing the rolls of newsprint. They roll into the road, causing Bond to crash his 4½-Litre Bentley and thus ending the chase.
Made in 1953, Bond purchases his second Bentley towards the end of the novel, Moonraker. Like his previous Bentley, the Mark VI is grey with dark blue leather upholstery. After Moonraker this model is never mentioned again. Fleming describes it as having an "open touring body." Bentley built the last Mark IVs in 1952, which makes Fleming's choice of 1953 ambiguous. Either he gave this year mistakenly or possibly referred to the car's coachwork, which could have been built that year.
A custom black Studebaker convertible with a Cadillac engine, plus special transmission, brakes and rear axle, owned by Felix Leiter in the novel Diamonds Are Forever. The combination of the aerodynamicRaymond Loewy-designed body with the powerful Cadillac engine made it into a remarkable sports car. Studillacs were not fictional, but actually built by a Long Island, NY company called Bill Frick Motors from 1953 Studebaker Starlight bodies.
Bond is picked up with this car at Yesilkoy airport. Fleming describes the car as "an old black basketwork Rolls-Royce coupé-de-ville that Bond guessed must have been built for some millionaire of the '20s."
Dr No describes the vehicle as a "marsh buggy–the vehicle that is used for oil prospecting." Bond says that the wheels "with their vast smooth rubber tyres, were nearly twice as tall as himself," and "a long metal dragon's head had been added to the front of the radiator and the headlamps had been given black centres to make 'eyes'. That was all there was to it, except that the cabin had been covered with an armoured dome and the flame-thrower added."
Described as a glittering 50 ton Chris Craft, it is used by the Gonzales and his men to sail from Jamaica to Cuba after murdering Havelocks. Judging by the weight spec mentioned in the story it is probably the Constellation model
200 tons former fishing vessel with a sail Colombo uses for his smuggling operations in the Adriatic. Its battle with Kristatos's ship is the novel's climax.
"The Hildebrand Rarity"
Wavekrest
Milton Krest
Luxurious white yacht owned by a rude American millionaire Krest who uses it for his voyages around the world as well as for his hunt of rare fish specimens for his foundation. Built by Bronson Shipbuilding Corporation and designed by Rosenblatts. Specifications: Length 100 ft (30,48 m), Width 21 ft (6,4 m), Weight 200 t, Two 500 horsepower Superior diesel engines, double propellers, top speed 14 knots. As Bond remarks after seeing it: "It was a real ship, built to cruise the world and not just Florida Keys."
Bond and Leiter take a brief tour in a car that belongs to the governor of the Bahamas.
Bentley Mark II Continental
James Bond
A Bentley Mark II Continental was featured in the novel Thunderball and is Bond's final Bentley. Bond, having purchased the car in a wrecked state, upgrades the engine from a 4.5 L engine to a 4.9 L and has a custom drophead body from Mulliners. The Mark II was also grey; however, the interior was black leather.
The Mark II Continental reappears in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service where Bond upgrades the vehicle once again with an Arnott supercharger controlled by a magnetic clutch, causing Rolls-Royce, worried about potential damage to the engine, to disown the car. He uses the car in a race with the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo in her Lancia Flaminia Spyder towards the beginning of the book. Bond dubs the car "the Locomotive".
This car is only mentioned once more. In Fleming's last story, "The Living Daylights", the following dialogue occurs (the name "Bentley" is not mentioned):
"Never seen a body like that on a Continental. Have it made specially?"
"Yes. The Mark IVs are anyway really only two-seaters. And damned little luggage space. So I got Mulliner's to make it into a real two-seater with plenty of trunk space. Selfish car I'm afraid..."
Hydrofoil white and dark blue yacht, purchased with SPECTRE funds for 200.000 pounds and used for the purposes of operation Omega by Emilio Largo. Built by Cantieri Navali Rodriquez from Messina. specifications: weight 100 t, powered by two Daimler-Benz four-stroke Diesels supercharged by twin Brown-Boveri turbo superchargers, top speed about 50 knots, equipped with Decca Navigator System. The yacht's hull has a hidden hatch like Olterra which is used to smuggle atomic bombs on board.
This list includes all types of vehicles that are either playable and driven by the player in the video games or not playable and act as enemy vehicles or only appear in cutscenes. Some vehicles that are not playable are sometimes ridden by the player required to shoot down enemy vehicles in a few games.
Used in all levels based on the iconic boat chase from the film.
007: License to Kill
Helicopter (Based off the Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin from the film)
Playable vehicle used in Level 01 and Level 03. In the first level, it is used to chase down Braun while in the third level it is used to chase Sanchez in his plane.
Bond steals this plane at the end of the level "Arms Bazaar". The PS1 version has the player control the plane for a short time, shooting enemies before taking off.
The same vehicle in the film, is first shown in the level "Hotel Atlantic, Hamburg" where Bond eventually uses it to escape. It is later a playable vehicle in the level "Convoy, Swiss Alps", where the player is required to take out a terrorist convoy. The vehicle is armed with machine guns and missiles that could only be activated if the player picks up a batch of them. Unlike the movie, it is not destroyed.
Used in the level "Gimme a Break" where you are required to collect all transmitters before jettisoning the vehicle. It is replaced by the DB5 in the second half of the level.
R provides Bond a new BMW Z8 that is identical to the one featured in The World Is Not Enough following Nightshade's death. It serves as a playable vehicle in the level "Dangerous Pursuit". The vehicle is equipped with machine guns and missiles, though it can also be equipped with other gadgets if the player goes through the yellow markings such as EMPs, smoke bombs, and a booster device.
Playable in the level "Streets of Bucharest". It is equipped with its gadgets that include machine guns as well as missiles and rockets if the player picks it up. It is later destroyed at the end of the level.
Russian Army Tank
Stolen by James Bond
In the second half of the level "Streets of Bucharest", Bond steals an ex-Soviet Army tank after crash landing his iconic DB5 in Romania. The tank is a playable vehicle and you could use either its Gatling gun or the gun barrel.
Dominique uses a Shelby in Paris while being chased by terrorists. It is later destroyed when Bond rescues her. The vehicle is only playable in "Alpine Escape" via cheat codes.
Bond first uses it in the level "Paris Prelude" after rescuing Dominique and foiling a terrorist plot to bomb a New Year's Eve celebration in Paris. It is also playable in the second half "Alpine Escape" where Bond and Nightshade use it to escape Drake's forces. The vehicle is equipped with its usual refinements such as guns, smokescreens, and rockets, but the vehicle also transforms itself into a submarine reminiscent of Wet Nellie.
Armored SUV
Stolen by James Bond
In the level "Island Infiltration", Bond uses a modified armored SUV to infiltrate Drake's island in the South Pacific. The SUV is armed with missiles and other gadgets the player could use to take out enemy SUVs. The vehicle resembles a Chevrolet Avalanche.
Bond is provided a Porsche Cayenne Turbo for his mission to rescue Nadanova from a research facility in Sahara and preventing nanobot prototypes. He would later use the vehicle to chase down a train where Nadanova is being held hostage before it is destroyed when it falls off a bridge just as Bond himself gets on the train in the level "Train Chase". Bond is later provided with another Porsche as a replacement when he goes to Peru to track Serena St. Germaine. The Porsche Cayenne is equipped with forward-mounted machine guns, heat-seeking missiles, and a cloaking device rendering the car invisible. It can also deploy an RC car.
Helicopter
Stolen by James Bond
In the level "Sand Storm", James Bond and Dr. Nadanova steal a helicopter from the armored train to chase down a terrorist general who has stolen the remaining nanobots.
James Bond rides a Triumph Daytona as a getaway vehicle when escaping from Peru from Diavolo in the level "A Show of Force". The vehicle was Agent 003's bike but was used by Bond following the agent's death. Bond would use the vehicle to destroy Jaws's tanker truck (The Portcharain Bridge).
Tank
The tank isn't a playable driving vehicle, although the player (as James Bond) only interacts with the tank's turret and Gatling gun in the level "A Show of Force", with Serena St. Germaine acting as the driver when they escape Peru from Diavolo's forces.
The same car from "Die Another Day" and "Nightfire". According to Q in the video game continuity, it has been revealed that the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish has been destroyed in Bond's previous missions, but has recently been resurrected and equipped with missiles, machine guns, electromagnet, and an acid slick. Bond uses this car in New Orleans to rendezvous with Agent Starling. At one point, Bond would hide his Aston Martin in a Volo Tech delivery truck so he can infiltrate a warehouse undetected to spy on Yayakov's plan from one of his agents who escapes via limo. Bond chases the henchmen, interrogates him, and finds out that Yayakov is on his way to the club to kill Mya Starling ("Mardi Gras Mayhem"). After rescuing Mya and taking her to the MI6 safehouse, Bond would use the Aston Martin to go to Diavolo's compound and destroy it via a remote-controlled car before dropping Mya at her apartment.
Delivery truck
In the level Mardi Gras Mayhem, Bond drives a delivery truck to one of Diavolo's compounds in New Orleans so he can get information from one of his associates. The truck also serves as a hiding place for James Bond's Aston Martin V12 Vanquish.
Limousine
Diavolo's henchmen, MI6
One of Diavolo's henchmen uses a limousine to escape that is destroyed by James Bond. Later, Bond drives a limousine to take Agent Mya Starling to a safehouse.
Rally Car
Stolen by James Bond
Bond steals a rally car upon switching places with one of Diavolo's drivers in order to participate in a rally race in order to win going to Diavolo's house for dinner. The rally car bears some resemblance to a Subaru Impreza WRX.
Exhibitions
In 2012 the National Motor Museum hosted Bond in Motion, an exhibition of 50 Bond cars to celebrate fifty years of Bond on film.[66] In 2014, the exhibition moved to the London Film Museum, cars from Spectre were added in 2015.[67]
^Barbara Broccoli, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Campbell, Chris Corbould, Famke Janssen, Peter Lamont, Izabella Scorupco, Michael G. Wilson (1994). GoldenEye: Building a Better Bond (Theatrical Teaser). MGM Home Entertainment.
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