Ships
- The word maru is a common suffix to Japanese ship names. See Japanese ship-naming conventions. Notable examples include:
- Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a fishing vessel exposed to radiation from a US nuclear test in 1954
- Ehime Maru, a fishing training ship that collided with the USS Greeneville in 2001
- Komagata Maru, a Japanese steam liner denied entry to Vancouver, Canada in 1914
- Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster
- Nippon Maru, flagship of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet
- Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship involved in collisions with Greenpeace vessels in 1999 and 2006
- No. 23 Nittō Maru, a patrol boat sunk after it encountered the USS Hornet (CV-8), causing the early launch of the Doolittle Raid
- Ryō Un Maru, a Japanese fishing boat washed away from her moorings after the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, and was deliberately sunk on 5 April 2012 after entering U.S. waters off the coast of Alaska.
- Tatsuta Maru, a Japanese troopship sunk in 1943
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
London has swept about you this score years
And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“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)
“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)