Griffin (disambiguation) - Ships

Ships

  • HMS Griffin, the name of five ships of the Royal Navy
  • Griffin (Ship), 17th century English sailing ship
  • Bird Griffin, 17th century Swedish sailing ship
  • The Griffin, 17th century ship built by the French explorer La Salle

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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)

    “Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
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    their bright ironical names
    like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
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