Van Buren - Ships

Ships

  • USS Van Buren, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
  • USS John J. Van Buren (DE-753), a United States Navy destroyer escort cancelled in 1944

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Famous quotes containing the word ships:

    “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.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
    the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
    their bright ironical names
    like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    “Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
    —Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)