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It resembles the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Spacecraft: 2000 to 2100 A.D: The Voyager is an interstellar colonization ship capable of carrying 1,200 passengers, their belongings and the equipment they will need to settle another planet.

The narration then proceeds to mention that their homeworld shortly after was wiped out by a global pandemic that could have been prevented by said middlemen, making it (unintentionally) The Ark again. This turns out to be a ruse to rid the original planet of the third of its population considered most useless (namely, middlemen), making it this trope. Ford and Arthur visit a ship, one of three sent out from a doomed planet to colonize someplace else (which turns out to be Earth All Along), which would make it The Ark.

Zig-Zagged between this and The Ark in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

In the Backstory of the chapter 'The Tale of the Adopted Daughter', Lazarus Long uses his ship to take several shiploads of colonists to the planet New Beginnings, along with all of the equipment and supplies they'll need to set up a new colony. It's actually part of an elaborate scheme to rob them all.

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One book in the Jedi Apprentice series (in a crossover with Jedi Quest) has Obi-Wan and Anakin investigate one of these, called the BioCruiser, which recruits people from environmentally devastated planets.

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Unfortunately, an encounter with Space Pirates damages the sleep chambers in such a way as to afflict the Human Popsicles with severe amnesia, so he winds up with a colony full of adult-sized toddlers.

Jason Worthing of The Worthing Saga is the captain of the Sleeper Ship variant.

Ender and Valentine leave Earth on one such ship. After the war, humanity sends out its own Colony Ships to colonize the empty bugger worlds. The Second Invasion included a Colony Ship carrying a bugger queen, which Mazer Rackham destroyed, collapsing their Hive Mind.

In Ender's Game, the First Invasion of Earth by the buggers was just an exploratory fleet.

Despite the name, this is not The Ark, as there's no cataclysm on Earth they seem to be doing it For Science! as much as any other reason.

Lovelock takes place aboard the Mayflower Ark, an enormous starship carrying the population of a small town to start a colony on a new planet.

Particularly large expeditions may require a fleet of these ships others will be entirely self-contained in one vessel. That includes people, animals, food, tools, seeds, and in spacefaring settings, the machinery necessary to terraform an alien world ( or not). Unlike exploration or military vessels, a Colony Ship is intended for just one purpose: to carry everyone and everything needed to start a self-sufficient colony. How are you going to get there? If your destination can be reached by land, you can just hoof it, but if there's an ocean or its Recycled IN SPACE! equivalent, the vast expanse between the stars, to cross, you're going to need a Colony Ship. You've got plenty of supplies and a band of hardy and like-minded colonists at your back, and you're ready to go! Hold on, sparky. For whatever reason, you've decide to raise stakes and head out into the great unknown to found a new colony where you can live and prosper and marry your cousins, or not, as you see fit.

Maybe your religion or ethnic group is being oppressed, or maybe you just misinterpreted a key passage of The Bible. Your homeland is starting to feel like not such a great place to live.

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