Treasure Fleet

Treasure fleet can refer to:

  • Spanish treasure fleet
  • Chinese treasure fleets of the Ming Dynasty, and especially the fleet of treasure ships led by Zheng He.

Famous quotes containing the words treasure and/or fleet:

    “Love was as subtly catched, as a disease;
    But being got it is a treasure sweet,
    Which to defend is harder than to get:
    And ought not be profaned on either part,
    For though ‘tis got by chance,’tis kept by art.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)