Ship Names
- Her Majesty's Ship (or His Majesty's Ship, or Submarine), the prefix of Royal Navy ship names since 1789
- Hans Majestäts Skepp (His Majesty's ship) or Hennes Majestäts Skepp (Her Majesty's Ship), the prefix of Royal Swedish Navy ship names
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Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or names:
“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Tonight there are only the winter stars.
The sky is no longer a junk-shop,
Full of javelins and old fire-balls,
Triangles and the names of girls.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)