Russell - Ships

Ships

  • HMS Russell, five ships of the Royal Navy have carried this name
  • USS Russell, two ships of the United States Navy have carried this name

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Other articles related to "ship, ships":

USS Cumberland (1842)
... She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia ... to build several ships-of-the-line and several new frigates, of which Cumberland was to be one ... It was not until Secretary of the Navy Abel Parker Upshur came to office that the ship was finished ...
Essex (disambiguation) - Transportation
... Ford Essex V4 engine Ford Essex V6 engine USS Essex, any of several US Navy ships Essex class aircraft carrier, named for the lead ship HMS Essex ...
Franklin, Virginia - History - The Civil War
... pass through Franklin on the Blackwater River, a band of local Confederates opened fire on the ships ... end, the Confederate attempts failed as no soldiers were captured and no ships were lost ...
USS Congress (1799) - Quasi-War
... in company with Essex to escort merchant ships to the East Indies ... Congress made routine patrols escorting American merchant ships and seeking out French ships to capture ...

Famous quotes containing the word ships:

    I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep
    James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)

    I saw three ships go sailing by,
    Over the sea, the lifting sea....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    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)