"Wet Nellie"

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]}

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]

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.

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.

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.