Fictional Ships
- A sloop called Hotspur appears in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur, third in the series, armed with eighteen 9-pounder cannon and four carronades
- A Hotspur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
- A schooner called Hotspur appears in the Richard Bolitho novel A Band of Brothers, written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).
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