Ships
- Fletcher class, a type of US Navy destroyer
- USS Fletcher (DD-445), named for Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, was the lead Fletcher-class ship and served during World War II
- USS Fletcher (DD-992), named for Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, is a Spruance-class destroyer, decommissioned and awaiting transfer into the Pakistani Navy
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“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)
“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)
“Oh, let me midlife mourn by the shrined
And druid herons’ vows
The voyage to ruin I must run,
Dawn ships clouted aground,
Yet, though I cry with tumbledown tongue,
Count my blessings aloud....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)