Ships
- CSS Rappahannock, a Confederate Army ship in service from 1864 to 1865
- Rappahannock, a huge three-masted wooden down easter (wooden tall ships of Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, at sea from 1869 to 1929) of 3,054 tons, built and owned by Arthur Sewall & Co., in service from 1889-1891
- USS Rappahannock (ID-1854 and AF-6), a United States Navy animal transport and store ship in commission from 1917 to 1924
- USNS Rappahannock (T-AO-204), a United States Navy fleet replenishment oiler in Military Sealift Command service since 1995
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“The northern sky rose high and black
Over the proud unfruitful sea,
East and west the ships came back
Happily or unhappily....”
—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)
“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)