Sailing over large bodies of water, a ship symbolizes the journey across or through the unknown or unconscious. As a large vehicle that sails on larger, more extensive bodies of water, its more related to the process of transformation or individuation than a boat. How do you behave on the ship. A shipwreck would relate to difficulties with the preceding concepts; feeling or fears of being overwhelmed by emotions or by circumstances beyond your control like nature and fate.

See also boat, sailing.