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Most ship detection algorithms utilize a single-band image to design low-level and hand-crafted features, which are easily influenced by interference like clouds and strong waves and not robust for large-scale variation of ships. In this paper, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine ship detection method based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and a deep residual dense network (DRDN) to address these problems. First, multi-spectral images are adopted for sea-land segmentation, and an enhanced DWT is employed to quickly extract ship candidate regions with missing alarms as low as possible. Second, panchromatic images with clear spatial details are used for ship classification. Specifically, we propose the local residual dense block (LRDB) to fully extract semantic feature via local residual connection and densely connected convolutional layers. DRDN mainly consists of four LRDBs and is designed to further remove false alarms. Furthermore, we exploit the multiclass classification strategy, which can overcome the large intra-class difference of targets and identify ships of different sizes. 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