Ceará has been the name of three ships of the Brazilian Navy:
, a monitor commissioned in 1868 and scrapped in 1884. , a multipurpose ship in commission from 1917 to 1946 that functioned as a submarine tender, submarine rescue ship, salvage ship, floating drydock, and floating submarine pressure hull testing facility. Ceará (G30), a in commission from 1989 to 2016 which previously served in the United States Navy as .