USS Celtic
USS Celtic may refer to two ships of the United States Navy named for or pertaining to the Celts or their language.
- USS Celtic (AF-2), built in 1891 by Workman Clark and Company, Belfast, Ireland, as the Celtic King; purchased by the U.S. Navy on 14 May 1898
- USS Celtic (IX-137), built in 1921 as the Kerry Patch by Bethlehem Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts; acquired by the U.S. Navy 17 January 1944
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Famous quotes containing the word celtic:
“I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, a plant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)