In Fiction
- In the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Empire faction has a mobile offshore base called Black Tortoise.
- In Tom Clancy's Endwar one of the battlefields features the USS Reagan Seabase, a mobile operations and staging ship
- In George Orwell's 1984, there are several mentions of mobile offshore bases called "Floating Fortresses"
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