Ships
- USS Vincennes, 780 tons, 18 guns, sloop-of-war, flagship
- USS Peacock, 650 tons, 22 guns, sloop-of-war
- USS Relief, 468 tons, 7 guns, full-rigged ship
- USS Porpoise, 230 tons, 10 guns, brig
- USS Sea Gull, 110 tons, 2 guns, schooner
- USS Flying Fish, 96 tons, 2 guns, schooner
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“And when we can with Meeter safe,
We’ll call him so, if not plain Ralph,
For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
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“I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)