Ships
- British
- HM Hired Vessel Surprise - an elderly twenty-eight gun frigate
- The Three Graces
- HMS Berenice - sixty-four-gun man-of-war
- Ringle - a Baltimore clipper (Berenice's tender)
- French
- Alastor - pirate ship
- Alastor's launch - used by Aubrey to sail to Callao
- American
- Franklin (captured)
- American whaler - captured by the Surprise/Franklin
- Nootka fur trader - captured by the Franklin
- thirty-eight gun frigate
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“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)
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We’ll call him so, if not plain Ralph,
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With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
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“A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”
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