Several ships have been named :
- , corvette of the , launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945.
- , a class of 2 Japanese battleships and an aircraft carrier of World War II
- , lead ship of the Yamato class, named after Yamato Province
- Yamato Maru, originally the that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to Ellis Island; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed Yamato Maru, sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines
- Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive in the early 1990s
- Ferry Yamato, a passenger ferry of Japanese ferry operator Hankyu Ferry and was sold to the Philippines in 2021, and renamed 2GO Maligaya
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